Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Climate Change, Demand Side Management, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Power Sector, Regulation, Renewables

Dale Bryk is NRDC’s Chief Planning Officer, responsible for creating a more strategic, transparent and inclusive approach to planning and resource allocation across the organization. Dale is co-leading NRDC’s institutional strategic planning process as well as the development and implementation of a bottom-up planning, measurement, and evaluation system designed to leverage the wide variety of skills and expertise that NRDC brings to every major area of work, and to right-size the organization’s investments for maximum effect. She is also co-leading the effort to transform the institutional budget process into a more strategic, transparent, and mission-driven endeavor.

From 2014 to 2016 Dale was the Director of Programs, where she was responsible for coordinating the efforts to achieve NRDC’s core priorities: curbing global warming and creating a clean energy future, reviving the world’s oceans, defending endangered wildlife and wild places, protecting our health by preventing pollution, ensuring safe and sufficient water, and fostering sustainable communities. From 2010 to 2014 Dale was the Director of NRDC’s Energy & Transportation program where she oversaw a team of 50 lawyers, scientists and technology experts working to develop policy solutions to dramatically improve energy efficiency in buildings, appliances and industry; expedite commercialization of emerging renewable energy technologies; increase vehicle efficiency; drive investment in low-carbon fuels; and reduce vehicle miles traveled. Previously, she led NRDC’s state level climate work and was integrally involved in the development of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the innovative program that limits carbon pollution from power plants and drives investment in clean energy, launched by 10 states in 2009.

Prior to joining NRDC in 1997, Dale practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. From 2002 through 2010 she also taught the Environmental Law Clinic at Yale Law School. Dale has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A from Colgate University.