Daniel M. Bodansky served as Climate Change Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State from 1999 - 2001, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. climate change policy and participated as a senior negotiator in the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. He headed the U.S. Delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Plenary (2000) and Working Group III (2001). He has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environmental Programme and the UN Conference on Trade and Development. He currently is a Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law where he teaches international law, international environmental law, and foreign relations law. In 1991-92, he received an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations, studying the negotiation of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in 1998 he was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Professor Bodansky is on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, and is former Chair of the American Society of International Law Interest Group on International Environmental Law. He earned a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, a Masters degree in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, and a B.A. from Harvard College.

The WAGE Transatlantic Relations Project is cosponsored by WAGE, the European Union Center, CIBER, the Institute for Legal Studies, the Institute for Environmental Studies, the International Practice Section of the Wisconsin State Bar, and the University of Wisconsin Law School.

This series of presentations is hosted by WAGE Senior Fellow Professor Gregory Shaffer, UW-Madison Law School.