Nicole Darnall

Nicole Darnall is Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs & the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. She is also Doctoral Director for the School of Public Affairs. Her research investigates non-regulatory governance, public policy, and sustainable enterprise.

Professor Darnall is a Collaborative Visiting Fellow with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Social Science Research Council, an Erasmus Mundus International Scholar, and Spanish Ministry of Education International Fellow. She has been awarded the Academy of Management, Organizations and Natural Environment Division's Emerging Scholar Award for research excellence, and its Best Paper Award. Professor. Darnall's scholarship has also received the Decision Science Institute's Distinguished Paper Award.

She is Associate Editor of Business & Society and Organization and the Environment, and sits on the Editorial Review Board of Cambridge University Press, and Business Strategy and the Environment. 

Professor Darnall’s research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.), the Social Science Research Council (U.K.), the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (France). She has delivered executive education courses in Vietnam, and presented her scholarship at numerous universities and research institutes across the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Before joining ASU, Professor Darnall was Associate Professor at George Mason University, and Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. Prior to her academic career, she worked at Resources for the Future and was an economist for the U.S. Forest Service.

Specialties: Non-regulatory governance, Public policy, Corporate governance, Sustainable enterprise