Aaron Koch

Aaron Koch served as the policy advisor for the New York City Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability in July 2008 and most recently as the senior policy advisor in 2011. In these positions, he worked on initiatives such as improving water quality and climate change adaptation as part of the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC, a project for creating a greener, more sustainable New York. Koch created the New York City Sustainable Stormwater Management Plan in 2008. Prior to his work in New York, Koch served as the director of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design in Washington D.C., a national program of the National Endowment of the Arts, United States Conference of Mayors, and American Architectural Foundation that works towards preparing mayors to be the chief urban designers of their cities. Previously, he was a mayoral fellow in the Office of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the national vice president of the American Institute of Architecture Students.

Koch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design with a master of city planning degree and a certificate in real estate design and development in 2008. He received his bachelor of science in architecture and minor in urban studies from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2001.