Dr. M. K. Dorsey is Chair & Director of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service and Professor of Practice in the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University. He is an expert on sustainability, finance, renewable energy, and environment matters. Dr. Dorsey, an appointed advisor to the US EPA, is also co-founder of the Center for Environmental Health and the Sunrise Movement. He presently serves on the national board of the Sierra Club. Dorsey has published extensively and contributed to the Wall Street Journal. An experienced investor, he is a limited partner of Around the Corner Capital. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale, and the Johns Hopkins University.

Dorsey’s significant government engagement began in 1992 as a member of the U.S. State Department Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit.” From 1994-96 Dorsey was a task force member of President William Jefferson Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. From April 2007 until November 2008 Dorsey was a member of Senator Barack Obama’s energy and environment Presidential campaign team. Dorsey’s conservation research has long been in cooperation and collaboration with leading scholars, think tanks, advocacy groups, governments, corporations, multilateral agencies, marginalized communities—and many others.