Dominique Lueckenhoff is SVP - Corporate Affairs, EHS & Sustainability for Hugo Neu. Lueckenhoff can be reached at [email protected].
In addition to having her own environmental consultancy, Dominique Lueckenhoff serves as the Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs, EHS & Sustainability at Hugo Neu Corporation. Reporting to the Chair and CEO, she leads the company’s global efforts in corporate sustainability, climate resiliency, environment, health and safety compliance, practices and policy, public and community affairs, and green business growth and investment. Ms. Lueckenhoff also manages Hugo Neu’s sponsorship support and partnership with a variety of public, private, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions, particularly that of the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Environmental Engineering Sustainability Management Program, supporting the Hugo Neu Sustainability Seminar Series and graduate student mentoring activities. Beyond her immediate corporate responsibilities, she serves as the following: Senior Fellow for the U.S. Water Alliance; ; Chair of the National Municipal Stormwater Association’s (NMSA) Community-Based Public Private Partnerships (CBP3) Center of Excellence (Water, Energy and Equitable Economic Resilience) – an activity which has evolved from a program she originated and developed while serving as a water director at USEPA; Associate Professor of Practice on the faculty of Virginia Tech’s Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability. Lueckenhoff also serves on the Board of Cousteau’s Earth Echo International NGO, as well as the Board of the American Sustainable Business Council Network, while supporting its national Clean Water Is Good for Business Coalition. She also serves as an Environmental Justice Advisor for the climate focused Carbon180 NGO. Her entrepreneurial drive for climate-smart solutions has also led to the recent business launch of Ecochar Environmental Solutions, where she is a managing partner, employing scalable decarbonization technologies for environmental treatment of soil and water. Lueckenhoff is also a member of Chief, a national network focused on connecting and supporting exemplary women executive leaders.
Recognized as a national thought leader and expert in green infrastructure innovations, equity, and sustainable communities, she has over 25 years of national award-winning program management and collaborative problem-solving experience across multiple USEPA programs protecting the nation’s air, water, and land. Prior to joining Hugo Neu, Lueckenhoff served as Senior Advisor to the EPA Region 3 Administrator where she developed and led initiatives related to innovative community-based public private partnerships, next generation technologies and alternative market-based approaches to achieving “faster, cheaper, greener” environmental improvements supporting equitable, resilient, sustainable communities. Lueckenhoff also led the EPA Region 3 Mid-Atlantic Water Protection Division for a number of years as Deputy Director and Acting Director directing administration and management of all division activities with oversight responsibilities for DC, DE, MD, PA, VA and WVA, while serving on EPA’s national board of water directors. In addition to holding undergraduate and graduate degrees with honors in Microbiology, Chemistry & Biophysics as a National Science Foundation Fellow, she received her U.S. Senior Executive Service (SES) certification as a graduate of the US Treasury Executive Institute and US EPA SES Candidate Development Program.