Dan Guttman is teacher, lawyer and has been a public servant. Following 2004-6 years as China Fulbright scholar he works with colleagues developing comparative programs in environment, law, and governance and practices law in the U.S.

He served as Executive Director of a Presidential Advisory Commission on bioethics, was Presidentially appointed Commissioner of the US Occupational Health and Safety Review Commission, directed US Senate investigations and hearings on U.S. government energy and environmental management, and was UNDP  “foreign expert advisor” on China environmental law.

He is Professor, Tianjin University Law school, adjunct professor, Fudan University IGPP, fellow New York University Asia Law Institute, has been visiting Professor at Peking, Tsinghua, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities, and taught for many years at Johns Hopkins and Shanghai NYU universities.

As lawyer, he has represented cities, states, citizens, and workers in energy, environmental, antimonopoly, human rights and anti-corruption litigation. He was partner in a firm that pioneered in litigation applying antimonopoly law to electric companies. He is of counsel to Guttman, Buschner and Brooks, a firm specializing in anti-corruption litigation.  The firm’s lawyers have helped government recover billions of dollars from health, financial, and energy companies, and military contractors.

He co-authored The Shadow Government,  a seminal study of the “contracting out” of the U.S. government, is author/coauthor of many further books and articles, has provided expert testimony many times before the US Congress and other public bodies,  shared in journalism awards, and is elected  Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative governance (including law, policy, state and non state actors), environmental and public health, governance of new technologies, public service and corporate ethics

EDUCATION

• Bachelors Degree University of Rochester (Highest honors in history; phi beta kappa)

• Juris Doctor degree Yale Law School

COURSE

Introduction to Global Public Policy