James Rubin

James Rubin is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He is the Chief Investment Officer of Aligned Climate Capital, a leading firm focused on the energy transition. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of the New York City Public Housing Authority (NYCHA) in mid-2023. He was previously the CEO of Meridiam NA, which developed infrastructure projects in partnership with local governments in North America. Before Meridiam, Rubin was Director of State Operations for the State of New York and Commissioner of the state Department of Homes and Community Renewal Redevelopment (HCR) and the New York Director of the President’s Hurricane Sandy Recovery and Rebuilding Task Force as well as a Senior Advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. He was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, working with cities including Buffalo and Detroit to identify and implement innovative economic development strategies and a Senior IPartner with BC Partners, a global private equity fund managing over $17 billion across two current funds.