Randall Winston
Deputy Mayor-Infrastructure,
City of Los Angeles

Randall Winston’s career spans law, architecture and public service. As Deputy Mayor of Infrastructure for the City of Los Angeles, he leads infrastructure policy and alignment of public works and transportation investments for Mayor Karen Bass. He had been an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers, representing government and environmental organizations facing complex litigation and state and federal investigations. Randall was previously appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown as executive director of the California Strategic Growth Council, a state agency integrating efforts to achieve its climate and sustainable community goals. Under his leadership, it invested over $1.3 billion in transit-oriented affordable housing, land conservation and capacity building in the most under-resourced communities in California. As an advisor to Gov. Brown, he worked across state agencies to lead implementation of Executive Orders on green buildings and electric vehicles, including development of unprecedented regulations on building and transportation sector emissions. Randall also led planning and execution of trade missions to China and Mexico, working with foreign government officials and state businesses to forge international trade and environmental agreements. He also worked for Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on global design, urban planning and infrastructure projects.
Randall also was an inaugural Policy Fellow at Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit venture fund focused on scaling equitable, market-driven solutions to climate change. He is vice chair of California Environmental Voters and serves on the boards of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment & Sustainability and UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment. Randall received a B.A. in Government from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and a J.D. from the Univ of California-Berkeley School of Law.