Daniel Rutherford

A doctoral candidate in environmental engineering, Daniel Rutherford's research interests concern the design and implementation of environmental policy in Japan. His dissertation entails a detailed interdisciplinary case study of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's regulation of diesel pollution under Governor Shintaro Ishihara. Tokyo's local regulations, which catalyzed substantial changes in central policy, structured a new domestic market for clean diesel technologies, and led to substantial improvements in local air quality, serve as one of the premiere examples of dramatic policy change in recent years in Japan.

Dan is currently affiliated with Shorenstein APARC as a Takahashi Predoctoral Fellow. During his graduate career, he has received support as a U.S. EPA STAR Fellow, an IIE-Fulbright Graduate Fellow, a Stanford Graduate Fellow in Science and Engineering, and from the Japan Fund. He received his BA in chemistry from the University of Minnesota-Morris and his MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford.