Hear from Dan Abbassi, a principal in Douglass Winthrop Advisors, LLC, where he oversees the firm’s Sustainable Equity Strategy.
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Dan Abbassi is a principal in Douglass Winthrop Advisors, LLC, where he oversees the firm’s Sustainable Equity Strategy. Dan’s background at the intersection of business and the environment spans leadership roles in investing, manufacturing, academia, the non-profit sector and the federal government. Prior to joining DWA, Dan was a Director at cleantech private equity firm, MissionPoint Capital Partners, and worked with Sir Chris Hohn and the endowment of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation on private investing in climate change mitigation. He co-founded and later served as CEO of Flowcastings GmbH, an innovative manufacturing company enabling efficiency gains and emissions reduction in the power and aviation sectors. He also held strategy and operating positions in two Fortune 500 media companies and was an appointee at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he played a key role in launching public/private partnerships to invest in environmental technologies and in developing the first U.S. National Action Plan on Climate Change. He was later appointed to the advisory committee of the U.S. National Climate Assessment.