SCHOLARS & STAFF

Faculty Director, Michael Lenox
Professor Lenox is Associate Professor of Business at the Fuqua School of Business and holds a secondary appointment as Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School. His research is at the interface of business strategy and public policy. His work draws upon emerging scholarship on the institutional, or non-market, strategies of firms and explores the prospects for industry self-regulation of firms’ environmental impacts — both the incentives firms have to self-regulate and the institutions created by firms and policy makers to facilitate self-regulation. Professor Lenox holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. and a M.S. in Systems Engineering with a concentration in environmental systems from the University of Virginia.  E-mail: mlenox@duke.edu

Associate Faculty Director, Deborah Rigling Gallagher
Deborah Rigling Gallagher is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of Environment. She is also Executive Director of the Duke Environmental Leadership program. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a masters degree in Public Policy from Harvard University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. Dr. Gallagher’s research focuses on public policies related to the interaction of business and the environment. Her work has examined public-private partnerships for brownfields redevelopment, stakeholder influences on business sustainability behavior, design of environmental management systems and the professionalization of sustainability within firms. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Gallagher held leadership positions in the public and private sector, most recently as a director of environment, health and safety for Kraft Foods.

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