Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Policy, Hydraulic Fracturing, Hydropower, Natural Gas, Oil, Regulation, Renewables, Water, Wind

David J. Hayes is a nationally recognized environmental, energy and natural resources lawyer who leads the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law. Hayes is an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law, and a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School, consulting professor at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, and research scholar at Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy. He previously served as the Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer at the Department of the Interior for Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (1999-2001; 2009-2013). Hayes is a member of Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s Sustainability Advisory Council; the board of directors for the Coalition for Green Capital; the advisory council of Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the American West; and founder of the Wildlife Trafficking Alliance. Before and between his service in the Clinton and Obama administrations, Hayes worked in the private sector as a partner and global chair of the Environment, Land & Resources department at Latham & Watkins, an international law firm. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he served as notes editor of the Stanford Law Review.