Experts & Staff

Dan Tunstall specializes in the development and communication of information on environment and development with particular interests in Africa. He works closely with WRI teams engaged in mapping poverty and ecosystems, reporting on rural poverty and investment opportunities in natural resources, and addressing environmental governance and justice issues.

Dan Tunstall is a Director of bilateral and Multilateral Relations at the World Resources Institute. His principal interests are in the area of environment and development indicators, state of environmental reporting, ecosystem assessments, and information policy. Mr. Tunstall was instrumental in planning and developing WRI’s flagship publication, World Resources starting in 1983 and now, directs its work on indicators of ecoystem goods and services, materials flow, sustainable development, and poverty and environment. Recently, Mr. Tunstall and staff comleted work on the 11th edition of World Resources, “The Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty”, which is the third in a series of Reports examining the relationships among poverty reduction, environmental governance, and ecoystem services. He works closely with a number of African Insstitutions in policy dialogues at national and sub-national levels.

Dan is also Acting Director for International Cooperation within Development Department.

From 1970-75, Mr. Tunstall worked for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and developed the first federal government set of social indicators, and from 1976-81 worked at the President’s Council on Environmental Quality during which time he developed its initial report on environmental conditions and trends. He was also Manager of Information Sources and Product Planning for Mead Data Centaral and has been a consultant for a number of government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations. Mr. Tunstall graduated from Northwestern University in 1963 with a degree in biology and received a Masters degree in international relations and economics from Columbia Univeristy in 1968. He also served for two years in the Peace Corps in Melaka, Malaysia from 1964-66.