ERNEST J. MONIZ

President & CEO

§ 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy (2013-2017) § Key architect of the Paris Agreement and Mission Innovation at COP 21 (2015) § Distinguished Fellow at Emerson Collective § Member, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2009-2013) § Co-Chair and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative § MIT Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus § Founder, MIT Energy Initiative and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment § U.S. Undersecretary of Energy (1997-2001) § Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (1995-1997) § Inaugural Recipient of the Public Service Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2019)

Ernest J. Moniz is the CEO of EJM nuclear agreement alongside the Secretary of Associates and the Energy Futures Initiative. He State. He reorganized a number of DOE served as the thirteenth United States program elements, elevated sound project and Secretary of Energy from 2013 to January 2017. risk management, and strengthened As Secretary, he advanced energy technology enterprise-wide management to improve innovation, nuclear security and strategic mission outcomes. stability, cutting-edge capabilities for the Professor Moniz previously served as American scientific research community, and Under Secretary of Energy from 1997 until environmental stewardship. He strengthened January 2001 with science, energy, and nuclear the Department of Energy (DOE) strategic security responsibilities. Before that, he was the partnership with its seventeen national Associate Director for Science in the Office of laboratories and with the Department of Science and Technology Policy from 1995 to Defense and the broader national security 1997, with responsibility for the physical, life, establishment. Specific accomplishments and social sciences. He was a member of the included producing analytically-based energy President’s Council of Advisors on Science and policy proposals that attracted bipartisan Technology as well as the Defense Threat support, implementing legislation, leading an Reduction Advisory Committee from 2009 to international initiative that placed energy 2013. He also served on the Blue Ribbon science and technology innovation at the Commission on America’s Nuclear Future that center of the global response to climate provided advice to the President and the change, and negotiating the historic Iran

Secretary of Energy, particularly on nuclear significant impact on energy policy and waste management. programs nationwide. Professor Moniz was a member of the He received a Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty degree summa cum laude in physics from from 1973 until 2013 when he was appointed , a doctorate in theoretical Secretary of Energy. Now, he is the Cecil and Ida physics from , and several Green Professor of Physics and Engineering honorary doctorates, with some from European Systems emeritus at MIT, as well as the Special universities. He is a member of the Council on Advisor to the MIT President. He is co-chairman Foreign Relations and of the International of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Nuclear Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council and Threat Initiative, a non-profit organization that received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry has advanced innovative solutions for securing Recognition Award for vision and leadership in nuclear materials, building international advancing scientific simulation. He is the cooperation for nuclear disarmament and recipient of the Distinguished Public Service nonproliferation - preventing the spread of Medals of the Department of Defense and of the disease and reducing radiological threats. Navy. He also was awarded the Grand Cross of He is the inaugural Distinguished the Order of Makarios III (), the Grand Fellow of the Emerson Collective. At MIT, Moniz Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator was the Founding Director of the MIT Energy (), and the Grand Cordon of the Order Initiative (MITEI) and Director of the Laboratory of the Rising Sun (Japan). for Energy and the Environment. MITEI grew to Other awards include the Charles Percy involve over a quarter of the faculty across the Award of the Alliance to Save Energy; the Right entire Institute, launched new educational Stuff Award of the Blue-Green Alliance programs for energy, and established novel Foundation; the Franklin D. Roosevelt models for industry-faculty engagement that Distinguished Public Service Award; the simultaneously provided individualized Neustadt Award of the Harvard Kennedy School company research portfolios with a commons for creating exceptional solutions to significant approach that lifted the entire energy problems in public policy; the Carnegie Science enterprise. Richard A. Meserve Public Service award; and Professor Moniz is a non-resident the American Academy of Sciences’ Award for Senior Fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center. Excellence in Public Policy and Public Affairs. Moniz was also Head of the MIT Department of He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society, Physics during 1991-1995 and 1997 and Director the American Association for the Advancement of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center from of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the 1983-1991. His physics research centered the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where development of a theoretical framework for he received the Public Service Award in 2019. understanding intermediate energy electron Professor Moniz serves on the Board of and meson interactions with atomic nuclei. Directors of both publicly traded and private Since 2001, his primary research has focused on companies in the energy and security sectors. energy technology and policy, giving him a He also served on the Boards of several non- leadership role in MIT multidisciplinary profit energy industry organizations and, technology and policy studies addressing through EJM Associates, is a high-level advisor pathways to a low-carbon world (Future of to several energy-related companies, Nuclear Power, of Coal, of Natural Gas and of investment firms, and policy makers. the Nuclear Fuel Cycle). These studies had

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