Matthew Gonser

Chief Resilience Officer and Executive Director, Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resilience
City and County of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Since January 2021, Matthew Gonser serves as the City and County of Honolulu Chief Resilience Officer and Executive Director of the City’s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency. He joined the City and the Resilience Office in October 2017 and previously served as Coastal and Water Program Manager. Prior to joining the office he served for nearly six years as the Community Planning and Design Extension Agent with the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program. Matthew holds a BS in Natural Resources from Cornell University, and holds masters in both Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture, respectively, also from Cornell.

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Presentation(s):

• Empowering Communities: Building Resilience for Hawai'i’s Residents and Businesses to Mitigate the Dual Affordability and Housing Crises

  Tuesday, January 23, 2024
  9:00 AM – 10:00 AM HST