Nicole Darnall

Nicole Darnall is Professor and Arlene R. and Robert P. Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in Sustainability at American University with appointments in the Kogod School of Business and School of Public Affairs. She is also Foundation Professor Emerita at Arizona State University (ASU). Previously, Darnall was Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Success and Strategic Initiatives in ASU’s School of Sustainability and College of Global Futures. She also served as Director of ASU’s Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative. Her research investigates organizations’ and individuals’ sustainability behaviors, particularly as it relates to organization structures, technologies, incentives, and capacities that lead to significant sustainability transformations. Darnall is an elected fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration Fellow. She also holds fellowships with the Social Science Research Council, an Economic and Social Research Council and Social Science Research Council, Erasmus Mundus Programme, and the Spanish Ministry of Education. She has held numerous editorships at prominent international journals and her scholarship has received multiple international awards. Darnall is president of the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment, an international network of nearly 2,000 scholars researching sustainable enterprise. She is also Commissioner for the US General Services Administration’s Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee, advising the agency on how it should embed sustainability into federal acquisition. Prior to her academic career, Darnall worked as an economist for the US Forest Service.