Dan Reicher is an energy and climate policy and finance expert who has served in leadership positions in government, the private sector, and academia. 

Dan has served three U.S. presidents, testified before the US Congress more than 50 times, led the launch of Google’s pathbreaking climate and clean energy work, overseen a $1.2 billion annual clean energy RD&D budget as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy, and co-founded New Energy Capital, the nation’s first investment firm focused exclusively on renewable energy project finance. He is currently a Senior Scholar at the Stanford University Doerr School of Sustainability, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at the Climate Adaptive Infrastructure Fund, Senior Policy and Finance Advisor to Magellan Wind, and a member of various boards and councils on clean energy, climate, and conservation.

Dan served from 2011 to 2018 as founding executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, a joint center of the Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dan came to Stanford from Google, where he served as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives.