Daniel Esty Biography

Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy. As a professor at Yale since 1994 he holds faculty appointments in both Yale’s Environment and Law Schools with a secondary appointment at the Yale School of Management. He directs the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and serves on the advisory board of the Center for Business & Environment at Yale which he founded in 2006.
From 2011 to 2014 Professor Esty served as head (Commissioner) of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). In this role he worked to re-design all of DEEP’s permitting programs for greater speed efficiency customer orientation effectiveness. 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 including 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) 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 current research focuses on integrating climate change concerns into the trade rules and procedures rethinking environmental policy for the 21st century and developing metrics to gauge sustainability performance at the global national city and corporate scales.

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