Michael Adlerstein

Michael Adlerstein was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Capital Master Plan, a five-year program to restore and renovate the historic United Nations Headquarters in New York, NY. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007.

Adlerstein obtained his architectural degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Since 2017, he has been teaching architecture classes as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, specializing in historic preservation.