Dan W. Reicher

Dan Reicher
Personal details
Born	Dan William Reicher (1956-06-30) June 30, 1956 (age 68) Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Dartmouth College (BA) Stanford University (JD)

Dan William Reicher is an American lawyer who was U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the Clinton Administration. Reicher is currently executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance^[1] at Stanford University, a joint center of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, where he also holds faculty positions. Reicher joined Stanford in 2011 from Google, where he served since 2007 as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives for the company's venture Google.org.

Reicher also served as an advisor to the 2008 Obama campaign and a member of the Obama Transition Team where he focused on the energy portions of the Obama stimulus package.

Following the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Reicher was considered for the post of Energy Secretary in the Obama Administration but physicist Steven Chu was ultimately chosen.^[2]

Following his tenure in the Clinton administration, Reicher was as an energy investor with a private equity firm he co-founded, and where he served as president. He was also a cleantech executive with a venture capital-backed renewable energy company. Early in his career he served as a staff member of President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.

In 2012 Reicher received an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and was also named one of the five most influential figures in U.S. clean energy by Oilprice.com.^[3]