As project manager for 12 years on district heating projects in Denmark, Kathrine have gained extensive experience with the Danish district heating model, the Danish suppliers and active companies on the market, as well as the implementation of specific district heating projects. Kathrine has worked as a project management for several years at Aarhus Municipality, HOFOR (Copenhagen Municipality) and as a consultant at NIRAS A/S. The work has included project management, client consultancy, planning, designing, supply and tendering, material procurement, supervision, environment, occupational health and safety coordination and operation and maintenance. Kathrine is a Civil Engineer with a Master of Science from Technical University of Denmark from 2007.

Grant Ervin serves as the Chief Resilience Officer and Assistant Director for the Department of City Planning for the City of Pittsburgh. Grant oversees the integration of sustainability and resilience into City services, programs and policy. He works to make the City of Pittsburgh a smart, sustainable and resilient city by fostering partnerships, leveraging assets and finding creative ways to solve civic problems. Prior to joining the City of Pittsburgh, Grant served as the Regional Director for 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, a statewide sustainable development policy organization; and as Public Policy Manager for Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG) - a community based organization serving Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods. Grant serves as an integrator of city activities by working across departments, agencies and sectors to form public policy and market based solutions. He brings deep experience, intersecting the worlds of environmental, community & economic development and infrastructure policy to create innovative and sustainable solutions for local governments, community development organizations and state agencies. In his role with the City of Pittsburgh, he oversees the development of the City’s energy transition strategy, climate policy, environmental social and governance (ESG) analysis, district scale sustainability and circularity. Grant has helped lead the development of a variety of innovative programs and decision support activities including: Pittsburgh’s participation with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), creation of the ONEPGH Resilience Strategy, Pittsburgh Equity Indicators, Pittsburgh Climate Plan, Pittsburgh’s inclusion in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Initiative; the United States Department of Transportation’s Smart Cities Challenge, the creation of the Uptown Eco-Innovation District, District Energy Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh and Neighborhood Community Information System, participation in the Urban Transitions Alliance and the Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative. Grant serves on the board of directors of Eco Districts, Pittsburgh Allegheny County Thermal (PACT) District Heating Company, American Institute for Architects (AIA) Pittsburgh Chapter and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is a member of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN). Grant resides in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh with his wife and two daughters.

Marta Schantz is the senior vice president for the Urban Land Institute’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance at the, a worldwide alliance of real estate owners committed to improving the environmental performance of the industry – reducing carbon, and increasing building value. Recent focus areas range from City/Real Estate Partnerships for Climate Policy, to Embodied Carbon in Real Estate, to Class B/C Office Energy Efficiency. Before her time at ULI, Marta consulted to utilities and real estate at Waypoint Energy, performed federal energy consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, and conducted energy project cost analyses at the US Department of Energy. Marta is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a LEED Green Associate and a Fitwel Ambassador.