Ernest Moniz

Ernest Moniz
13th United States Secretary of Energy
In office May 21, 2013 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Daniel Poneman Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Preceded by	Steven Chu
Succeeded by	Rick Perry
Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment
In office October 29, 1997 – January 20, 2001
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Steven Chu
Succeeded by	Robert G. Card
Personal details
Born	Ernest Jeffrey Moniz (1944-12-22) December 22, 1944 (age 79) Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Naomi Moniz
Education	Boston College (BS) Stanford University (MS, PhD)
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Ernest Jeffrey Moniz, GCIH^[1] (/moʊniːz/;^[2] born December 22, 1944) is an American nuclear physicist and former government official. From May 2013 to January 2017, he served as the 13th United States secretary of energy in the Obama administration. Prior to this, Moniz served as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and undersecretary of energy from 1997 to 2001 during the Clinton administration. He is currently the co-chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI),^[3] as well as president and CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI), a nonprofit organization working on climate and energy technology issues, which he co-founded in 2017.^[4]

Moniz, who is one of the founding members of The Cyprus Institute, has served at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the Cecil and Ida Green professor of physics and engineering systems, director of the Energy Initiative and director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment.^[5] Before his appointment as secretary of energy, he served in a variety of advisory capacities, including at BP,^[6] General Electric^[7] and the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[6]