Meet the Board Leadership

Gary Wolff, P.E., Ph.D., of Castro Valley serves on the State Water Resources Control Board in the position of Professional Engineer. Prior to his appointment to the State Water Board, he served as one of two Water Quality appointments to the nine-member San Francisco Bay Water Board. From 2001 to 2006, he served as principal economist and engineer for the Pacific Institute for Studies in Environment, Development and Security.

Dr. Wolff is an expert in the economics and engineering of resource use, including water quality; water, energy, and materials end-use efficiency; and incentive policies. His professional career has included solar energy construction contracting, water quality regulation for the State of California, design engineer at a wastewater treatment plant, founder and president of an engineering consulting firm, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, and a visiting professorship at the Graduate School of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. 

His community service includes chair of the Castro Valley Sanitary District Community Advisory Committee, past president of the Alameda County Recycling Board, past chair of the East Bay Municipal Utility District Demand Management Advisory Committee, and past chair of the Board of WaterKeepers of Northern California (now Baykeeper). 

Dr. Wolff received his Doctoral degree in Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, his Masters Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and his Bachelors Degree in Renewable Energy Engineering Technology from Jordan College.