Andrew Goldberg, Assoc. AIA, was named the AIA's Managing Director of Government Relations and Outreach in November 2011, following four years as Senior Director of Federal Relations. As Managing Director, Goldberg runs the AIA's advocacy program before Congress and the Executive Branch and its grassroots mobilization efforts, including ArchiPAC, the AIA’s political action committee.
Goldberg spearheaded the AIA’s successful lobbying efforts to enact far-reaching legislation to promote energy efficiency in federal buildings, reform procurement regulations that unfairly target architects, and spur the State Department to create a design excellence program for America’s embassies. Goldberg also created and leads the AIA’s Rebuild & Renew campaign to promote long-term economic recovery through investments in sustainable buildings and communities.
After studying architecture in the early 1990s, Goldberg turned to politics and public policy, spending six years on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant to members of Congress; managing government and media relations for a health care association in London, England; and serving as executive director of Democrats Abroad, the Democratic Party organization for Americans living overseas. He also has worked on numerous political campaigns at the national, state and local levels.
Goldberg sits on the Board of Directors of the National Home Performance Council, the Advisory Board of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, and the Advisory Board of the U.S. House Livable Communities Task Force. He has been quoted in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Roll Call, Politico, and Business Week.
Goldberg received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Design of the Environment program in architecture and landscape architecture.