Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Dan Esty is a professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University. He holds faculty appointments in both Yale's Environment and Law Schools. He is the Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy as well as the Yale World Fellows Program. Dan is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles on environmental policy issues and the relationships between the environment and trade, globalization, security, competitiveness, international institutions, and development. His current research agenda includes projects on environmental protection in the Information Age, corporate environmental strategy, global environmental governance, and "next generation" approaches to pollution control and natural resource management.
Prior to taking up his current position at Yale, Dan was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, a Washington DC think tank. From 1989-93, he served in a variety of positions on the US Environmental Protection Agency including Special Assistant to EPA Administrator William Reilly, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Agency, and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy. During his tenure at the EPA, Dan managed the EPA's regulatory review process, coordinated inter-agency relations, and contributed to a number of policy initiatives including the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. He also negotiated several international agreements on behalf of the EPA including the 1992 Climate Change Convention, the environmental provisions of NAFTA, and various elements of the agreements concluded at the Rio Earth Summit.
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