Tom Eggert

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Tom Eggert

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Tom Eggert is the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council and is a senior lecturer in sustainability at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has taught classes on sustainability since 1997 and developed the graduate certificate in Business, Environment & Social Responsibility. He has spoken about sustainable consumption in India at the Center for South Asia (2012). In addition to his work with UW–Madison, he works with the Department of Natural Resources on Wisconsin’s Environmental Leadership program (Green Tier) and as the business sustainability lead. Additionally, he is President of the Board of Wisconsin Microfinance; a non-profit that raises money for microloans in Haiti. He holds a law degree from George Washington University, a Masters in Public Administration from UW, and, prior to law school, was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines.