Nicole Darnall

Nicole Darnall is Foundation Professor of Management and Public Policy in Arizona State University's School of Sustainability and Director and Co-founder of ASU’s Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative. She is a Commissioner in the U.S. General Service Administration's Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee and Chair of the Acquisition Workforce Sub-committee where offering recommendations about how the agency can embed environmental and sustainability into Federal acquisition Dr. Darnall was previously Associate Dean of Faculty Success in ASU's College of Global Futures and Associate Dean of ASU's School of Sustainability. Her research assesses the factors that encourage organizations and individuals to behave more sustainably, especially related to sustainable purchasing. Professor Darnall is an Abe Fellow, an Economic and Social Research Council and Social Science Research Council Collaborative Visiting Fellow, an Erasmus Mundus International Scholar, and Spanish Ministry of Education International Fellow. She has received numerous international awards for her academic research and is a founding member of the Group of Organizations and Natural Environment (GRONEN), a network of European and North American scholars focused on organization sustainability. Prior to her career in academia she worked as an economist for the U.S. Forest Service.