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ROBERT MC NULTY
President & CEO
Partners for Livable Communities, Washington, D.C.
Robert H. McNulty has 35 years of experience of working at the neighborhood, city, county and state level in government, nonprofit, community advocacy, business leadership, and philanthropy organizations advancing livable communities.
Mr. McNulty founded Partners for Livable Communities in 1975 with the leadership and support of Nancy Hanks, later a member of the Board of the Conoco Corporation and Vice Chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
In these thirty-three years, Mr. McNulty has become the prime mover of livable communities in the United States and has put together and helped to form new leadership groups in approximately twenty cities around America. He has undertaken strategic planning (in particular, the noted Chattanooga Venture Strategy), and honored men and women of the private sector, government and citizen activism for building bridges across racial lines, income and classes that divide communities.
McNulty is an experienced civic strategist and has worked in over 400 communities in the United States and Canada and has traveled in over 100 countries around the world. McNulty has a business degree in real estate from the University of California, School of Business and a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.
He has been a Fellow, twice appointed at the graduate School of Design at Harvard University; a guest Fellow at Pierson College, Yale; an adjunct associate professor for 8 years at Columbia University in the School of Architecture; and acting director of the graduate program in historic preservation for 1 year within the School of Architecture at Columbia.
He has had research appointments to the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis and has worked with the Conference Board, the Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Association of Realtors, Bank of America, Wachovia, and numerous other business and corporate interests on how to create better markets for their products through leadership, community problem-solving and livable communities for their employees, clients and consumers.