Dan Esty

Daniel C. Esty is the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).

DEEP is the state agency charged with conserving, improving and protecting the state’s natural resources and environment and ensuring that Connecticut has a clean, affordable, reliable and sustainable energy supply.

This new agency is focused on better integrating energy and environmental policies and helping Connecticut to build a sustainable and prosperous 21st century economy.

Prior to becoming Commissioner, Esty was the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University.  He held faculty appointments in both Yale’s Environment and Law Schools.  He also served as the Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for Business & Environment at Yale .

Commissioner Esty is the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles on environmental policy issues and the relationships between environment and corporate strategy, competitiveness, trade, globalization, governance, and development.  His recent prizewinning book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, argues that pollution control and natural resource management have become critical elements of marketplace success and explains how leading-edge companies have folded environmental thinking into their core business strategies.