Dan Guttman is a teacher and lawyer and has been a public servant.

Public Service: Dan served as Executive Director of a Presidential bioethics advisory Commission, Presidentially appointed Commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, directed, as special counsel, US Senate investigations of US government energy and environmental management, and was United Nations Development Program and EU China environmental governance program “foreign expert advisor” to China environmental NGOs in the development of China environmental law and practice.

Universities: Dan is Professor, Tianjin University Law school, adjunct professor, Fudan/London School of Economics Institute for Global Public Policy, fellow New York University US-Asia Law Institute. Following 2004-6 years as China Fulbright scholar, he taught and worked with colleagues developing environmental governance, international relations and law courses and programs at Peking, Tsinghua, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities, taught at Shanghai NYU and Duke Kunshan universities, and been US Environmental Law Institute China faculty.  In the US he taught for many years at Johns Hopkins (recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award), and has been a Fellow at centers at Johns Hopkins, Emory and the University of California Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.

Since 2008 he has been co-organizer of a China/US/global comparative environmental governance network, which works to produce frameworks  (articles and books) for use by scholars and practitioners working between/among China and other environmental governance systems. The most recent book addresses the role of China “non-state actors,” including trade associations (she hui tuanti) and corporations, in development/ implementation of sustainability standards to guide business in China and abroad. (Guttman, Jing, Young: Non State Actors in China Environmental Governance: Palgrave; 2021).  Current work includes  co-organizer of Australia/China/US comparative climate adaptation governance project (US National Academy of Public Administration and Fudan University/London School of Economics Institute for Global Public Policy co-sponsors.)

Private Law Practice:  Dan has represented cities, states, citizens, workers, Congressmen in energy, environmental, antimonopoly, civil/human rights and whistleblower litigation. He was partner in a firm that pioneered in litigation applying antimonopoly law to electric companies, creating the pediment for today’s smart grid. He represented janitors and nuclear weapons workers in litigation leading to Congressional enactment of asbestos in schools and nuclear worker compensation laws, litigation establishing that the Washington, DC Human rights law protects labor organizing, US court finding that Clinton Administration privatization of the US Enrichment corporation was a model of how not to privatize, and litigation leading to US moratorium on recycling of nuclear weapons waste for unrestricted commercial use. He is Of Counsel to Guttman, Buschner and Brooks, whose lawyers have represented whistleblowers in litigation recovering billions of dollars for US and state and local governments from fraud by energy, health care companies, and military contractors.

Further: Dan co-authored The Shadow Government, a seminal study of the “contracting out” of the U.S. government, and authored/coauthored many further books, articles, and reports. His research has been cited in US court decisions, he shared in journalism awards, most recently for investigation of $900 billion in Pentagon contracting, testified as expert many times before Congress and other public bodies, and was the whistleblower in Department of Justice litigation against a major national security contractor establishing the application of contractor conflict of interest disclosure requirements under the False Claims Act.

He is a National Academy of Public Administration Fellow and co-chair of the Academy International Affairs Panel.  Global NGO Board member and/or pro bono legal advisory work includes Shanghai Roots & Shoots (a Shanghai nonprofit working with hundreds of schools and thousands of volunteers in humanitarian and environmental projects, including the planting of millions of trees in desertified areas), Gender Action (pioneer in gender implications of development bank funding),  Institute for Practical Research and Training (Horn of Africa development), SEVEn (Prague based pioneer in renewable energy), Professional Association of China Environmentalists (PACE). He was graduated from Yale Law School and the University of Rochester.