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Michael Horst
Senior Resident Fellow, Leadership
Phone: 202-624-7121
E-mail: michael.horst@uli.org












Michael Horst is the Senior Resident Fellow for Leadership at the Urban Land Institute, a Washington DC based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Prior the this assignment he was a Senior Vice President where, for a decade, he oversaw ULI’s District Council Program, providing leadership, vision, and strategic planning for the 51 North American District Councils and a growing number of start ups around the world. The District Councils are the "delivery system for ULI’s policy and practice agenda, providing an opportunity for the Institute’s 33,000+ members to be responsible leaders in the communities in which they live and work.

Since beginning his career in 1970, he has also been a real estate consultant, educator and developer. His consulting career included senior positions with Economics Research Associates, PBR, EDAW and INTRA (International Tourism and Resort Advisors) and his clients included organizations such as the Walt Disney Company, Caterpillar, Hillwood Development, and the St. Joe Company, and not-for-profits like the Rocky Mountain Institute, California Center for Land Recycling and Habitat for Humanity. He has created and taught multi-disciplinary classes at Harvard, UC Berkeley, UCLA and the University of Southern California.

He was also cofounder of Shenoa Retreat and Learning Center, an eco-resort in Northern California demonstrating ecologic, economic and community sustainability and innovative building and financing technologies such as straw bale construction and the Land Stewardship program. Throughout his career he has been an active participant as a full member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), serving as co-founder and Vice Chair of the Sustainable Development Council and as Vice Chair of the Program Committee.

He is also a Governor (Developer level) of the ULI Foundation. He has a BA degree in economics from University of California Santa Barbara (1967), an MBA from Stanford University (1969) and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Design School (1982). He serves on the Alumni Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Loeb Fellowship Alumni Council.