Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit sustainable planning and design firm established in 1975 engaged with strategic development, design, policy, education and research initiatives, with a specific focus on the intersection of green building and human health. She was the 2009 Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Board of Directors, served on the USGBC Board from 2002-2010 and on the Green Building Certification Institute Board of Directors from 2011-2019, including as Chair from 2013-2019. She was Founding Chair of the LEED for Healthcare committee (2004-2008) and is Convener and a Co-Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care.
In her hometown of Austin, she has been a driver of policy initiatives that have fundamentally influenced the city’s future. In 1989, she proposed the conceptual framework for what evolved as the City of Austin’s Green Builder Program, the only U.S. program recognized at the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the first green building program in the world. With Pliny Fisk, she oversaw the program’s early stage development through 1992. She also has collaborated on a spectrum of influential sustainability initiatives in Austin including the 1.1 million square foot mixed use Block 21 project, the 709-acre Mueller Redevelopment Project including LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Gold-Certification, and the LEED Platinum certified Austin Central Library. Ms. Vittori is co-author of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, with Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED Fellow, and is a founding board member and currently Vice Chair of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative.
Ms. Vittori is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and was featured as an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine. She was recipient of the Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainability in 2015. She is married to Pliny Fisk III and has two children.