Dan W. Reicher joined Google in 2007 where he serves as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives for the company's venture called Google.org which has been capitalized with $2 billion of Google stock to make investments and advance policy in the areas of climate change and energy, global development, and global health. Mr. Reicher also is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, a member of General Electric's Ecomagination Advisory Board, co-chairman of the board of the American Council on Renewable Energy, and a member of the board of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.
Prior to his recent position at Google, Mr. Reicher served as President and Co-Founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a New England-based company that invests in renewable energy and distributed generation projects. He also served as Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems, one of the nation's oldest renewable energy companies.
From 1997-2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Prior to that position, Mr. Reicher was DOE Chief of Staff (1996-97), Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy (Acting) (1995-1996), and Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary (1993-1995).
Earlier in his career Mr. Reicher was a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Assistant Attorney General for Environmental Protection in Massachusetts, a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Boston, a legal assistant in the Hazardous Waste Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a staff member of President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.
Mr. Reicher holds a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Mr. Reicher was a member of the first group on record to kayak the Yangtze River in China and a National Geographic sponsored expedition that was the first to navigate the entire 1888 mile Rio Grande.
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