Robert Verchick

Rob Verchick is one of the nation’s leading scholars in disaster and climate change law and a former EPA official in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans. Rob is also a Senior Fellow in Disaster Resilience at Tulane University and the President of the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Rob has written more than 60 articles the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and other publications and five books. He has taught as a visiting professor at Yale University, Peking University, and Aarhus University in Denmark. His podcast, Connect the Dots, focuses on tackling some of our biggest environmental and health challenges.

In 2009 and 2010, Rob served in the Obama administration as Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In that role he helped develop climate change adaptation policy for the EPA and served on President Obama’s Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.