Since 2000, Leith Sharp has been the Founder and Director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. Leith has a bachelor of Environmental Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia and a Master of Education in human development and psychology from Harvard University. Leith has worked with universities for over 12 years, in both Australia and the USA, in the pursuit of campus environmental sustainability. Leith is a LEED accredited professional and has won numerous awards for her work including 1998 Young Australian of the Year, NSW Environment Category, a Churchill Fellowship in 1999 to research best practice in greening universities throughout Europe and the USA and most outstanding paper for her contribution to the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 2002. Leith is now on the editorial board for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and Sustainability: The Journal of Record, is an Advisory council of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and is on the steering group for the North East Campus Sustainability Consortium.