Dr. David Wagger is Chief Scientist and Director of Environmental Management at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) in Washington, DC. He has 25 years of experience in environmental engineering, policy, regulation, and science, including 14 years at ISRI. He assists members with environmental compliance and management and represents ISRI and the recycling industry on federal and state environmental regulatory matters and on external panels and working groups on R&D, science, and sustainability.

Dr. Wagger holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from, respectively, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow.