BA in Economics, Harvard College; MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics; Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford; JD, Yale Law School. With US Environmental Protection Agency: 1989-90, Special Assistant and Deputy Chief of Staff; 1991-93, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy. 1993-94, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC. Since 1994, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale University. 2000-01, Visiting Professor, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; University of Aix-Marseille, France (2015); National University of Singapore (2018); University of Copenhagen (2022). Since 1994, Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. Since 2016, Director, Yale Initiative for Sustainable Finance. 2007-09, Environment and Energy Adviser, Obama campaign and Member, Presidential Transition Team. 2011-14, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. 2022- 23,Visiting Scholar/Advisor, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Author or editor of 14 books and numerous articles on sustainability and trade, finance, corporate competitiveness, innovation, SDG progress, metrics, and governance -- including the prizewinning volumes GREEN TO GOLD, A BETTER PLANET, and VALUES AT WORK: SUSTAINABLE INVESTING AND ESG REPORTING.
