Daniel C. Esty

Daniel C. Esty (born June 6, 1959) is an American environmental lawyer, policymaker, academic, and corporate sustainability adviser. He is the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University with primary appointments in the Yale Law School and the Yale School of the Environment, and secondary appointments at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and the Yale School of Management. He also serves as Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Co‑Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance

Esty is known for his research and writing related to environmental law and policy, corporate sustainability, global governance, climate change, sustainability metrics, and trade law reform. He co-leads the Remaking Trade Project, a global network of policymakers and scholars working to reconfigure the international trade system reconfigured to better align with the 21^st Century ''sustainability imperative''. With a team of researchers at Yale and Columbia, Esty created the Environmental Performance Index.

From 2011 to 2014, Esty served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, where he led the drafting of the state’s first comprehensive energy strategy, launched Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation Green Bank to finance renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, and helped restructure regulatory systems toward market-based approaches. He served a senior energy and environment advisor to the Obama for President campaign in 2007-08 and on the Obama/Biden Presidential Transistion team in 2008-09.

Esty is a commentator on business, energy, and climate change issues and has been quoted in major publications including ''The Financial Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New York Times'', ''Harvard Business Review'', ''Nature'', ''The Economist'', ''HuffPost'', and ''Scientific American''. He has appeared numerous times on NPR and various television programs (such as ''The Colbert Report'' and ''Fox & Friends'') as well as podcasts including ''The Energy Gang, The Trade Guys, Resources Radio,'' and ''Columbia Energy Exchange''. Provided by Wikipedia