Mark N. Templeton is Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, and a Research Affiliate of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago.
Previously, Templeton was a Trustee and Executive Director of the Office of Independent Trustees for the $20 billion Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust. He previously served as the cabinet-level Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Associate Dean and COO at Yale Law School, and at McKinsey & Company, where he worked on sustainability issues.
Prior to that, he worked on human rights issues at the State Department and as an adviser to the US Delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights. Early in his career, he was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. Mark has an AB from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School.