Michael Adlerstein - Executive Director

On July 2, 2007, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Mr. Michael Adlerstein of the United States as the Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Capital Master Plan. The CMP is a $2 billion project to renovate the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Mr. Adlerstein was the Project Director for the restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the most ambitious historic restoration project ever undertaken by the United States Department of the Interior. He later became the Chief Historical Architect of the National Park Service. As such, he was recognized as the national expert in the field of Historic Preservation, advising the National Park Service Director and the US Secretary of the Interior on all historic preservation issues. He managed a planning, design and construction program which included complex partnership projects at Gettysburg, Valley Forge, Gateway, Independence, Acadia and Jamestown. Mr. Adlerstein later served as the Vice President and Architect of The New York Botanical Garden, America's oldest and most respected center for horticulture, botanical research and education.

Mr. Adlerstein is a New York native. He received his architectural degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and has worked as a State Department consultant on numerous preservation and planning projects, including the preservation of the Taj Mahal. He has been recognized for his contributions to the field of architecture with numerous awards and in 1994 was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.