Dan Tunstall is Director of International Cooperation at the World Resources Institute. He works closely with governments and donors to provide financial and intellectual support for WRI's goals, objectives, and projects.  With WRI's officers, program directors, and project managers and our funding partners Dan helps to create greater awareness and understanding of WRI's contribution to development and environment through policy analysis, development of analytical tools and data, and sustained engagement with in-country partners. Dan is also a Senior Fellow in the People and Ecosystems Program with interests in environment and development indicators, state of environmental reporting, ecosystem assessments, and information policy.

Mr. Tunstall was instrumental in planning and developing WRI's flagship publication, World Resources report, starting in 1983.  In 2008 the Institute released the 12th edition of WRR, "Roots of Resilience: Growing the Wealth of the Poor". He also continues to work with a number of African institutions to strengthen their capacity to develop and use economic, social, and environmental information.

From 1970-75, Mr. Tunstall worked for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and developed the first federal government report on social indicators, and from 1976-81 worked at the President's Council on Environmental Quality and managed its program on environmental conditions and trends. He was also Manager of Information Sources and Product Planning for Mead Data Central and has been a consultant for a number of government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations.  Mr.Tunstall graduated from Northwestern University in 1963 with a degree in biology and received a Masters degree in international relations and economics from Columbia University in 1968. He also served for two years in the Peace Corps in Melaka, Malaysia from 1964-66.