 | Daniel C. Esty |
Daniel C. Esty, the newly named Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, is renowned for his research and teaching in those areas, as well as in world trade and the environment and environmental performance measurement.
Esty holds a joint appointment at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Law School. He has served since 2001 as director of the Yale World Fellows Program, an initiative to bring emerging world leaders to campus for a special leadership training program, and has been director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy since 1994.
Esty is co-editor of "Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities" (with M. Ivanova), "Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade" (with Carolyn Deere), "Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002" (with P. Cornelius), "Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration: Comparative Perspectives" (with D. Geradin), "Sustaining the Asia-Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection and Economic Integration" (with A. Dua) "Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy" (with M. Chertow) and "Asian Dragons and Green Trade: Environment, Economics and International Trade" (with S. Tay). He is the author of "Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment and the Future" and has written numerous book chapters, journal articles and essays.
A graduate of Harvard College, Esty studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his J.D. in 1986 from the Yale Law School, where he was executive editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation and project coordinator of the Environmental Litigation Program. Following graduation, he served as an attorney at the Washington, D.C., firm Arnold & Porter before being named special assistant to William Reilly, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 1989. He became deputy chief of staff in 1990 and deputy assistant administrator for policy a year later. At the EPA, he had responsibility for coordinating the agency's entry into the international trade arena and was the chief EPA negotiator for the environmental aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement, among other duties.
Esty joined the Yale faculty in 1994 after serving for a year as a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. He was associate dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 1998-2002. While on the Yale faculty, Esty developed a pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), to measure the ability of economies to achieve environmentally sustainable development. Esty developed the methodology for the index -- which provided the most comprehensive global report on the state of the environment -- with support from the World Economic Forum.
The American Bar Association honored Esty with its Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law in 2002, and in 1998 and 2000 he was named by Earth Times as one of the world's "100 most influential environmental leaders." He has twice received the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Teaching Award. His other honors include the EPA's Fitzhugh Green Award for contributions to international environmental protection.
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