Bradford Gentry
 

BRADFORD S. GENTRY'S work addresses the business impacts of environmental laws, commercial pressures and market opportunities on the operations of private investors. He was counsel to Morrison and Foerster from 1995 to 2001, and a partner in the firm's London office from 1990 to 1995. Between 1988 and 1990 he worked at McKenna & Co., an English solicitors' firm. He is now counsel to the environmental and major project groups at Baker & McKenzie. He started his career as a clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Walter J. Skinner in Boston prior to joining Goodwin Procter & Hoar in 1982. Building on his training as a lawyer and a scientist, he has been involved in projects in over 40 countries around the world. At Yale, he is director of the Research Program on Private Finance and the Environment, and co-director of the Yale-UNDP Program on Public-Private Partnerships. His work with companies covers the environmental aspects of investments, ranging from privatizations and infrastructure projects to multinational mergers and acquisitions liability regimes, compliance and management systems. He has represented companies in environmental damage actions, analyzed liability rules in many countries, and advised on environmental requirements in the US and Europe. He has organized and conducted environmental reviews of manufacturing and energy facilities in Europe, the Americas and Asia. He has also developed and applied environmental management and measurement systems in globalized operations. He is the author of Global Environmental Issues and International Business and Private Capital Flows and the Environment. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Swarthmore College, and graduated from Harvard Law School .