Daniel Guttman

Dan Guttman is teacher, lawyer and has been a public servant. Following 2004-6 years as China Fulbright scholar he works with colleagues developing comparative programs in environment, law, and governance and practices law in the U.S.

He served as Executive Director of a Presidential Advisory Commission on bioethics, was Presidentially appointed Commissioner of the US Occupational Health and Safety Review Commission, directed US Senate investigations and hearings on U.S. government energy and environmental management, and was UNDP and EU  “foreign expert advisor” on  environmental law.

He is adjunct professor, Fudan University IGPP, fellow New York University Asia Law Institute, teaches at East China University of Political Science and Law, has been visiting Professor at Peking, Tsinghua, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities, taught at NYU Shanghai and Duke Kunshan Universities, coordinated US/China programs for universities including Emory, Johns Hopkins, University of California Santa Barbara,  and taught for many years in the US at Johns Hopkins University.

As private lawyer, he has represented cities, states, citizens, and workers in energy, environmental, antimonopoly, human rights and anti-corruption litigation. He was partner in a firm that pioneered in litigation applying antimonopoly law to electric companies. He is of counsel to Guttman, Buschner and Brooks, a firm specializing in anti-corruption litigation.  The firm’s lawyers have helped the US and state governments and whistleblowers recover billions of dollars from leading pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, financial, and energy companies, and military contractors.

He has been founder/Board member of global nonprofits engaged in gender equity, environmental education, and further.

He co-authored The Shadow Government,  a seminal study of the “contracting out” of the U.S. government, is author/coauthor of many further books and articles, has provided expert testimony many times before the US Congress and other public bodies, and shared in journalism awards (including a Peabody award).