Dan Esty

Dan, Yale Professor and Chairman of Esty Environmental Partners, is one of the leading corporate environmental strategy thinkers and practitioners. Coca-Cola and Unilever both relied on Dan to set up their Environmental Advisory Boards, and he sits on both to this day. CEOs or top executives from Honeywell, Northeast Utilities, Kerr-McGee, Limited Brands, Shell, and more than a dozen other Fortune 500 companies have sought out his advice.

Dan is Hillhouse 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 and the Center for Business and Environment at Yale.

Dan is the author or editor of nine books and dozens of articles on environmental strategy, policy, governance, and regulation. He comments frequently on environment issues on television, radio, and in such publications as The New York Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and The Financial Times.

As a senior official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he helped to craft air and water pollution regulations and government policies affecting waste, food safety, and other issues. He negotiated the 1992 framework convention on climate change on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was also the principal architect of the environmental provisions for the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has testified before Congress on environmental issues numerous times.

Dan holds a B.A. from Harvard, a masters degree from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from Yale. Dan lives in Cheshire, CT with his wife and three children.