Dr. Michael Fotos
Chair, Board of Directors
Director of Undergraduate Studies for Environmental Studies and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University
Dr. Fotos is a lecturer in Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Environmental Studies at Yale University.
He has teaching and research interests related to environmental governance institutions, constitutional choice, coal mining regulation, voter turnout, ecosystem services, and counter-insurgency doctrine and operations.
Dr. Fotos was born and raised in Huntington, W.Va. He is a 1978 graduate of Yale College. He holds an MC-MPA from Harvard and a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University. He has a lifelong interest in energy and the environment and has worked in sales and marketing for wind energy, oil, and coal companies, as a senior administrator for state energy and environmental agencies in West Virginia, and as a director of land protection for an environmental NGO. He taught as visiting faculty at Trinity College from 2000 to 2019 and at Yale since 2007. He has served as a volunteer instructor and board member of WSP since its founding.