Ernest Jeffrey Moniz, GCIH (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), as well as president and CEO of the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI), a nonprofit organization funded by the methane gas industry that works on climate and energy technology issues, which he co-founded in 2017.
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22 December 1944 (age 80) Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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