Dan W. Reicher Dan Reicher is Executive Director of the SteyerTaylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University, a joint center of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, where he also holds faculty positions. Reicher has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental policy, finance, and technology. He has served three Presidents including: the Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Department of Energy Chief of Staff; as a member of President Obama’s Transition Team and Co-chair of the Energy and Environment Team; and as a staff member of President Carter’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Mr. Reicher came to Stanford in 2011 from Google, where he had served since 2007 as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives. Mr. Reicher currently is Senior Advisor to the Atlantic Wind Connection, a project backed by Google and other investors to build an underwater transmission line for offshore wind power and grid reliability along the U.S. east coast. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and co-chairman of the Board of the American Council on Renewable Energy. He also serves on the boards of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and American Rivers, the Advanced Energy Economy Advisory Committee, the Vermont Law School Environmental Advisory Committee, and the Dartmouth College Alumni Council. In 2012, Mr. 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.
George P. Shultz George Shultz, a native of New York City, attended Princeton University, served in the Marine Corps, and earned a PhD in industrial economics from MIT in 1949. From 1948 to 1957 he taught at MIT. In 1955 he served as a senior staff economist on President Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisors. In 1957, Mr. Shultz joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business as a professor of industrial relations. He became Dean in 1962. From 1968 to 1969, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Mr. Shultz was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Nixon in 1969. In 1970, he became Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and in 1972, he was named Secretary of the Treasury. In 1974, he became President of Bechtel Group and joined the faculty of Stanford University. Mr. Shultz was Chairman of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board from 1981 to 1982 and Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Mr. Shultz’s publications include Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future (2013); Ideas & Action, Featuring 10 Commandments for Negotiations (2010); Putting Our House in Order: A Citizen’s Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, with John B. Shoven (2008); and Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993). Mr. Shultz is Honorary Chairman of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Advisory Council Chair of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, Chair of the MIT Energy Initiative External Advisory Board, and Chair of the Hoover Institution Task Force on Energy.
Before his position at Google, Mr. Reicher was President and Co-founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity firm funded by the California State Teachers Retirement System and Vantage Point Venture Partners to invest in clean energy projects. He was also Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems, one of the nation’s oldest renewable energy companies and a recipient of significant venture capital investment and an adjunct professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Vermont Law School.
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