Learn at Lunch with Bob Dreher '73

Bob Dreher '73 will speak about"citizen suits" to enforce environmental laws. More info on registration coming soon.

Bob Dreher is an attorney whose practice focuses on provision of strategic counsel and legal representation to conservation organizations and businesses regarding complex environmental and natural resources matters. Bob has extensive experience in environmental law and policy, having served in the Obama administration as Associate Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Acting Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources for the U.S. Department of Justice, and in the Clinton administration as Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has represented environmental organizations and tribes as managing attorney of Earthjustice’s Washington, D.C. office, counseled businesses in private practice with the firm Troutman Sanders, LLC, and served as Deputy Executive Director of the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute. Bob served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Defenders of Wildlife from 2016 to 2020, with responsibility for all of Defenders’ programs for wildlife conservation, and most recently served as Legal Director for the Potomac Riverkeeper Network from 2022 to 2024. Bob graduated from Harvard College, and holds a master’s degree from Brown University and a law degree from Yale Law School.