Daniel Barstow Magraw, Jr.

Member of the Board of Directors

Daniel Magraw is a leading expert on international environmental law and policy. He is president and CEO of the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland. Before joining CIEL in 2002, Magraw was Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s International Environmental Law Office from 1992 to 2001, frequently serving on delegations to international negotiations. During that period, he also co-chaired a White House task force evaluating the regulation of genetically modified organisms and was Acting Principal Deputy Administrator for the Office of International Activities. 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 international agreements such as 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, a 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 20,000-member International Law Section. He was a constitutional litigator at 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 (with high honors) 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 helped develop and run the most successful retail and wholesale cooperative in India. Magraw joined the Lightbridge Board of Directors in 2006 and is chair of the Governance Committee.