Partner
Baker Botts
Washington, DC
Alexandra (Alex) Dunn is a Partner in the Environmental, Safety, and Incident Response group at the law firm of Baker Botts with 27 years of practice at all levels of government. Alex works with companies from multi-national corporations to startups and with national organizations on environmental justice and risk communication, sustainability, management of emerging contaminants, chemical regulations, enforcement and compliance assistance, and risk communication.
From 2019-2021, with unanimous consent confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Alex served as Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. Overseeing 900 staff, she created national policies implementing federal laws governing chemicals, pesticides, and pollution prevention. Prior, she was EPA Administrator for New England from 2018-2019, where she focused on watersheds, enforcement, and environmental justice.
Previously, Alex was Executive Director and General Counsel of the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS). She alswo was Executive Director and General Counsel of the Association of Clean Water Agencies; Dean of Environmental Law Programs at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University; General Counsel of National Association of Clean Water Agencies; and Counsel at American Chemistry Council. Alex is a known author on the topics of green cities, urban sustainability, environmental justice, and watershed management; she also has taught environmental justice at three law schools and will rejoin the Catholic University School of Law as a Lecturer in Law in Fall 2022.
The National Law Journal recognized her 2021 as an Energy and Environmental Trailblazer. Alex serves on the Leadership Council of the Environmental Law Institute, the Board of Regents of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, on the American Law Institute’s Environmental Law Advisory Panel, and as a leader in the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources and on the Section of Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Committee.
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
11:30am – 11:50am PT
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