Daniel Esty

Daniel C. Esty

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Daniel Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, jointly with Yale Law School; Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy. In 2000, Esty was cited as a "leading scholars of globalization at Yale."

Career

Daniel Esty has been a professor at Yale since 1994, where he "holds faculty appointments in both Yale’s Environment and Law Schools and a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management." Esty "also directs the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (www.yale.edu/envirocenter) and serves on the Board of the Yale Center for Business & Environment (cbey.yale.edu) which he founded in 2006."

Esty is cited as "an expert on the relationship between environmental issues and international trade policy." He served in the Environmental Protection Agency as its deputy assistant and administrator for policy, deputy chief of staff, and special assistant to Administrator William Reilly. At the EPA, he negotiated the environmental provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1990 amendments to the Montreal Protocol and 1992 Climate Change Convention.

When announcing his role as "faculty supervisor" for the Yale World Fellows Program., Esty was quoted as saying:

"I am so pleased to be part of Yale's expanding globalization efforts. The World Fellows Program positions Yale to play an important role in understanding the problems that arise at the global-scale and in building the personal relationships and networks needed to manage interdependence."

Biography

The following is from Daniel Esty's biography at Yale:

"From 2011 to early 2014, Professor Esty served as head (Commissioner) of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. In this role, he worked to create a model 21st Century regulatory agency that used a “LEAN” process to re-design all of its permitting programs for greater speed, efficiency, customer orientation, and compliance focus resulting in transformed outcomes. Likewise, he designed an innovative energy strategy for the state designed to fulfill Governor Dan Malloy’s commitment to cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable energy – including a shift away from subsidies toward a finance focus using creative policy tools (reverse auctions, power purchase agreements, a first-in-the-nation Green Bank, and a statewide Property Assessed Clean Energy program).

Professor Esty is the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles on sustainability and environmental issues and the relationships between environmental protection and corporate strategy, competitiveness, trade, globalization, metrics, governance, and development. His prizewinning book (with Andrew Winston), Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, argues that pollution control and natural resource management have become critical elements of marketplace success and explains how leading-edge companies have folded environmental thinking into their core business strategies. His most recent book (with P.J. Simmons), The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function offers practical advice on how to execute a sustainability strategy across a wide range of businesses and activities. His current research focuses on rethinking environmental policy for the 21st Century and developing metrics for gauging environmental and sustainability performance at the global, national, city, and corporate scales as well as regulatory excellence, climate change and clean energy, and clean energy technology and finance.

Professor Esty's teaching encompasses a wide range of topics including the courses Environmental Law and Policy, Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy, International Trade in a Global World, Climate Change and the Quest for Green Energy, and most recently Sustainability: Environment, Energy, and the Economy in the 21st Century, an undergraduate course that seeks to become a “must take” course for Yale College students.

Professor Esty has advised companies of all sizes and in a wide range of industries on corporate environmental or sustainability strategy including Ikea, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Alcoa, Hanes, Hannaford, Boeing, and IBM. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Esty Group (www.estygroup.com), an energy, environment, and corporate sustainability strategy firm where he works with clients to develop high-impact strategies that address company and industry challenges.

Prior to taking up his position at Yale, Professor Esty was a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (1993-94), served in a variety of senior positions in the US Environmental Protection Agency (1989-93), and practiced law in Washington, DC (1986-89). He has an AB from Harvard College, an MA from Balliol College at Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School."

Leading Scholars of Globalization at Yale

In 2000, Yale cited "leading scholars of globalization at Yale:" historians John Gaddis and Paul Kennedy; political scientists Geoffrey Garrett, Bruce Russett and James Scott; economists William Nordhaus, T.N. Srinivasan, and Gustav Ranis, who is director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies; Law School professors Paul Gewirtz and Harold Koh; James Speth and Daniel Esty, dean and deputy dean respectively of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; public health experts Ilona Kickbusch and Michael Merson; and Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management.

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