Professor 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 the 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. She has received numerous awards for this research and her leadership. She also holds fellowships with the Social Science Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, and Social Science Research Councils, and the Erasmus Mundus Programme. She is president of the Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment, an international network of scholars researching sustainable enterprise, and commissioner for the US General Services Administration’s Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee, recommending and advising the agency on how it should embed sustainability into federal acquisition.

Prior to her career in academia she worked as an economist for the U.S. Forest Service.