Daniel Barstow Magraw, Jr.

Member of the Board of Directors

Daniel Magraw is a leading expert on international environmental law and policy. As president and CEO of the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland, Mr. Magraw is also a member of the Green Group—a collective of CEOs of the world’s top environmental organizations. Before joining CIEL in 2002, Magraw was director and general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s International Environmental Law Office from 1992 to 2001, frequently serving on delegations to international negotiations. Magraw has been a presenter and panel expert for the U.N. Environment Programme on many topics, including how to draft provisions for national legislation on economic tools for environmental management; how to promote compliance with and enforcement of environmental laws; and how to establish national regimes to implement the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (treaties to protect the environment from hazardous pollutants).

Magraw is a member of the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative’s Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Foreign Investment Law, the liaison for the American Bar Association (ABA) to the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, and chair of the ABA’s International Law Section Task Force on Magna Carta; he is the past chair of the ABA’s 15,000-member Section of International Law and Practice. He was a top constitutional litigator for Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and has published numerous articles and books, including The International Human Rights of Women, for which Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote the foreword.

 Magraw earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University, where he was president of the undergraduate student body, and a J.D. from the University of California–Berkeley, where he was editor of the California Law Review and a founding member of the Berkeley Law Foundation. While working as an economist for the Peace Corps in India from 1968 to 1972, Magraw successfully founded and ran a cooperative that still thrives today. Magraw joined the Lightbridge Board of Directors in 2006 and is chair of the Nominating Committee.