Bill Blosser

Vice President and Senior Consultant in Sustainability, CH2M Hill Oregon

William Blosser is currently Vice President and Director of Sustainable Development Practices for CH2M Hill, an employee-owned global project delivery firm of scientists, engineers, planners, and economists. In that capacity, his responsibilities include planning and managing large, interdisciplinary projects involving sustainable development, environmental impacts, land use planning/housing, industrial development, transportation planning, water resource, and energy facilities.

Before joining CH2M HILL, Bill was an instructor of urban planning at Portland State University. He was involved in several housing studies before his appointment at Portland State. Bill sits on the board of various organizations, including the International Sustainable Development Foundation, the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, the Portland Chamber of Commerce, the Oregon Business Council, the Associated Oregon Industries, the American Leadership Forum, and The Nature Conservancy.

Bill served as chairman of the Land Conservation and Development Commission (1990 – 1999); the Governor’s State Agency Council on Growth in the Portland Area (1990 – 1993); and the Oregon Water Resources Commission (1985 – 1990). He was also a Vice-Chair for the Oregon Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Urban Mobility (1990 – 1993). Bill also served as Presidentof the Oregon Winegrowers Association (1987 – 1990) and the Yamhill County Wineries Association (1985 – 1990). He earlier played an advisory role for various state agencies such as the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Policy Advisory Committee on Regional Parking (1994 to 1995), the Governor’s Oregon Transportation Initiative State Advisory Committee, (1996), and was the Governor’s appointee to the Northwest Power Planning Council Governance Review Committee (1995).

Bill received his Masters in Regional Planning, Housing Economics, and Social Policy Planning from the University of North Carolina and a B.A. in History, Political Science, Social Psychology, and Honors Humanities from Stanford University. Bill, along with Bruce Harder, published Toward a Development Plan for the Lower Tualatin Valley for the Urban Studies Center at Portland State University in 1971.