Printable Biography of David Monsma

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 Environmental management and reporting; carbon and securities disclosure; environmental sustainability

David Monsma is the Executive Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C.  From 2002-2006 David was Assistant Professor of Law and Social Responsibility teaching law and ethics in the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College in Maryland. Prior to this, he was Director of Business and Environment at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) in San Francisco. David has served as the Environmental Management Task Force Coordinator for the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD); managed the environment program at the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP) in New York City; and was staff counsel and director of the Pollution Prevention Project for the Environmental Action Foundation in Washington, D.C.  David began his legal career in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) at USEPA Headquarters. He has published three recent law review articles:

The Ecology Law Quarterly, University of California - Berkeley, Equality, Governance and the Environment: Integrating Environmental Justice Principles in Corporate Social Responsibility, 33 Ecology L.Q. 443-498 (2006).

Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Muddling Through Counterfactual Materiality and Divergent Disclosure: The Necessary Search for a Duty to Disclose Material Non-Financial Information, 26 Stan. Envtl.L.J. 137-199 (2007) (with Timothy Olson).

The Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, The Academic Equivalence of Science and Law:  Normative Legal Scholarship in the Quantitative Domain of Social Science.