Prof. Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University. 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 Board of the Center for Business & Environment at Yale, which he founded in 2006. From 2011 to 2014, Prof. 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, effectiveness. 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, Boeing, and IBM. Prior to taking up his position at Yale, Prof. 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 Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School.