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About Us
Academic/Global Experience: From Rio to Baku
As the founding faculty director of the first interdisciplinary graduate program in sustainability management in a U.S. business school, Dan led American University to a #1 national ranking by Bloomberg Businessweek. Next, as a business professor at Loyola Marymount University, he spearheaded the introduction of sustainability into its business curriculum, as well as its successful initiative to obtain official UNFCCC observer status. Having attended the historic Rio Earth Summit at which the original U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted, Dan most recently attended COP29 in Baku. He is an instructor for the Environmental Law Institute and National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Public Service
Prior to joining academia, Dan had an equally distinguished career in public service. An award-winning lawyer at both the Justice Department and the State Department in Washington, D.C., he also served at State as an office director and senior negotiator in the Bureau of Economics, Energy, and Business. In those roles, he handled a variety of domestic and international sustainability issues impacting a cross section of major industries both in the U.S. and abroad. ​
Author
Dan’s recent publications include BP Blowout: Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster, the #1 featured title of the Brookings Institution Press in Fall 2016, and "The Volkswagen Diesel Emissions Scandal and Accountability,” the cover story of the July 2019 sustainability edition of The CPA Journal. BP Blowout was formally launched at the Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, where Dan served on a panel with the producer of Deepwater Horizon.
Media Appearances
Dan has appeared as a commentator on sustainability issues on the BBC World News, and regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, London Times, and Guardian.
Education
Dan earned degrees from Duke Law School (J.D.), Cambridge University (M.Phil.), and Middlebury College (B.A.). While completing his degree requirements, he studied three foreign languages and competed in four club sports. As an alumnus, Dan served on the Dean's Advisory Council at Duke Law, and on the Board of Directors of the Middlebury Alumni Association.