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Daniel J. Fiorino
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Daniel J. Fiorino is Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Executive in Residence at the School of Public Affairs at American University. The Center’s mission is to evaluate and improve environmental governance in the United States. He also teaches courses on environmental and energy policy, environmental sustainability, and public management.
Dan is the author or co-author of four books and some thirty journal articles and book chapters. Among his books is The New Environmental Regulation, which won the National Academy of Public Administration’s Brownlow Award in 2007. Before joining
the faculty at American, Dan held several positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including Associate Director of the Office of Policy Analysis, Director of the Waste and Chemical Policy Division, and Director of the National Environmental Performance Track. In the summer of 2009 he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
His current interests include the design and role of mechanisms for collaborative environmental governance and approaches to incorporating environmental sustainability into public policy. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Mr. Fiorino received his B.A. degree in Political Science from Youngstown State University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.