In May of 2020, Len Materman was appointed CEO of the San Mateo County Flood and Sea Level Rise Resiliency District, the first countywide independent government agency on the West Coast focused on these climate change impacts.

Also last year, Len served as a Practitioner in Residence at Stanford University’s Center for the American West. Previously, with colleagues at Stanford and UC Berkeley, he was a contributing author of two books on financing and implementing large-scale climate resilience.

For over a decade, Len served as the Executive Director of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, where he led the largest completed multi-jurisdictional sea level rise protection project in the state. Prior to leading that JPA, Len served as a consultant to nonprofits and the U.S. State Department, as executive producer of a PBS film on water, as a policy advisor to the Director of FEMA, and as UC Berkeley’s Government Affairs Director.