DANIEL ABBASI, Director

Dan Abbasi originates and structures clean energy and environmental finance transactions, and also leads the firm’s public policy engagements to leverage policy incentives on behalf of the firm’s portfolio companies. Dan has worked closely with policy-makers to design a stable, long-term policy framework to accelerate the deployment of low-carbon solutions, including testimony to multiple committees and caucuses in the U.S. Congress. Dan is a former Associate Dean at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he convened high-level meetings on climate change and authored the influential book: “Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action.” He has served in strategy, M&A and senior operating roles for subsidiaries of the Washington Post Company and Time Warner. Dan was an appointee at the US Environmental Protection Agency, serving as a Senior Adviser in the Office of Policy, during which he co-chaired the Strategy Committee for the U.S. Environmental Technology Initiative, and worked closely with the White House to produce the first U.S. Climate Change Action Plan. Dan was a key developer of the US environmental technology export strategy and represented EPA on the Secretary of Commerce’s Trade Promotion Committee. Previously, while on staff at the World Resources Institute, he performed on-site advisory and consulting work on cost accounting for environmental costs and risks at Fortune 500 companies. Dan earned an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an MA in Political Science from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.