Daniel S. Greenbaum
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Health Effects Institute
Dan Greenbaum joined the
Health Effects Institute as its President and Chief Executive Officer on
Greenbaum has focused HEI’s efforts
on providing timely and critical research and reanalysis on particulate matter
(PM), air toxics, diesel exhaust and alternative technologies and fuels. In
addition, HEI has published major scientific reviews on the health effects of Diesel Exhaust, Particulate Matter, and Oxygenates
Added to Gasoline.
Greenbaum chaired the EPA Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in
Gasoline which issued its report Achieving
Clean Air and Clean Water in July 1999 and EPA’s Clean Diesel
Independent Review Panel, which issued its report on technology progress in
implementing the 2007 Highway Diesel Rule in October 2002. Greenbaum also
serves on the National Research Council Board
of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, as vice chair of its Committee for Air Quality Management in the
United States and as a member of its Committee
on Research Priorities on Airborne Particulate Matter. He regularly presents the results of HEI’s scientific work to
Greenbaum has three decades of governmental and
non-governmental experience in environmental health. Just prior to coming to HEI, he served as
Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from
1988 to 1994, where he was responsible for the Commonwealth's response to the
Clean Air Act, as well as its award-winning efforts on pollution prevention,
water pollution and solid and hazardous waste.
Greenbaum holds Bachelor's and Master's
degrees from MIT in City Planning.