Sofía Zuberbühler-Yafar
Assistant Commissioner of Sustainability & Urban Design
NYC Department of Design and Construction

Sofía Zuberbühler-Yafar, RLA, ENV SP is a registered Landscape Architect with a Masters in Urban Design and has over 24 years of varied experience with the planning, design and construction management of public/private built environment projects. Presently, Sofía is Assistant Commissioner of Sustainability & Urban Design at the NYC Department of Design and Construction. She leads the Infrastructure Division’s integration of climate readiness, sustainability, resiliency and equity. In addition, she oversees the agency’s multimillion dollar green infrastructure and cloudburst management capital design contracts. Sofía is on the Envision Review Board with the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure and is part of several other NYC sustainability task forces.