Daniel Rochberg is Chief Strategy Officer of Emory University’s Climate@Emory initiative, an Instructor in Emory’s Departments of Environmental Health and Environmental Sciences, and a co-founder of the Georgia Climate Project. He spent seventeen years with the U.S. Department of State, where he served as Special Assistant to the lead U.S. climate negotiators under Presidents Bush and Obama and was a member of U.S. delegations to multiple UN conferences, including the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and the 2009 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, and helped shape the President’s Global Climate Change Initiative and the U.S.-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy. Daniel participated in the 2018 class of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has received the State Department’s Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards and Emory University’s Sustainability Innovator Award. He holds a B.A. in Human Biology with honors in environmental science, technology, and policy and an M.S. in Earth Systems, both from Stanford University.
