Dan Lashof is a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute and previously served as Director of WRI's programmatic work in the United States.

Dan has been working to promote solutions to climate change for more than three decades. Before the World Resources Institute, Dan was the Chief Operating Officer of NextGen Policy Center and previously served as the Director of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

His focus is developing federal and state regulations to place enforceable limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutants, responsibly scale up carbon dioxide removal, and properly account for the impact of land use in climate and fuels policies. He has participated in scientific assessments of global warming through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has monitored international climate negotiations since their inception. He has testified at numerous Congressional and California legislative hearings and posts articles regularly on WRI Insights.

Dan earned his Bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics at Harvard and his Doctorate from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

He and his wife reside in Berkeley and have three adult children.