Ben Shepherd is a ENV SP, WEDG and LEED Fellow and serves as Regional Director of Atelier Ten's largest US office, based in New York City. Since joining the firm in 2006, he has extensive experience in sustainability consulting, masterplanning, urban ecology, and renewable energy across a variety of green development project types. In addition to leading the firm's US Benchmarking practice, Ben is also a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) since 2016, and is a previous co-chair of ULI New York’s Infrastructure Council. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Cornell’s Art Architecture & Planning (AAP), and at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture & Urban Design (GAUD) program.