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George Elvin is the director of Green Technology Forum, a leading research and advising firm focusing on emerging green technologies for sustainable business. Elvin is also an associate professor at Ball State University, and his books and articles have been published by Wiley, Princeton Architectural Press, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Elvin is a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Center for Energy Research, Education and Service.

During high school George Elvin worked for the CIA, not as a spy, but as a kitchen cleanup crew member at their headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Then, as his schoolmates went off to college, Elvin opted for a Zen Buddhist monastery in upstate New York. In his twenties Elvin founded his own design-build firm in Washington, DC, and built everything from residential additions to playground furniture for the pandas at the National Zoo.

With his company well established Elvin sought a degree in architecture, ultimately graduating from UC Berkeley with a PhD. Elvin worked professionally in Germany and Japan, and then accepted a teaching position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an assistant professor there Elvin taught design and construction and published the first study on wearable computers for the construction industry.

About the time John Wiley & Sons published his first book, Integrated Practice in Architecture, he accepted a position as an associate professor at Ball State University. There he continued to teach design and construction and founded Green Technology Forum, a research and advising firm focusing on emerging technologies for green business.

As the Director of Green Technology Forum Elvin publishes and speaks frequently on a variety of subjects, including green business, alternative energy, biofuels, nanotechnology, biotechnology, green building, and other global technologies, trends and issues. Elvin's goal is to educate and promote understanding of the emerging green technologies and environmental issues that are transforming life in the 21st Century.

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