Dan Reicher is an investor, entrepreneur, policymaker, lawyer and lecturer focused on clean energy and climate change. Dan brings the ability to act on the policy trends that create investible infrastructure opportunities. He has served three U.S. presidents, testified before the U.S. Congress more than 50 times, helped launch Google’s path breaking energy work, set new energy efficiency standards and accelerated wind deployment as Assistant Secretary of Energy, and co-founded one of the nation’s earliest clean energy project investment firms.
Dan served from 2011 to September 2018 as founding executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, a joint center of the Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he held faculty positions. He came to Stanford from Google, where he served since 2007 as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives.
Before his position at Google, Dan was President and co-founder of New Energy Capital, and Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems. Earlier in his career, he was an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts and an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Dan is a Stanford lecturer and research fellow. He is co-founder and previously board chair and acting CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy. He also serves on the boards of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, American Rivers, Dartmouth’s Irving Institute for Energy and Society and Dartmouth’s Dickey Center for International Understanding. He is also a Distinguished Associate of the Energy Futures Initiative, founded by former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz.
Dan holds a B.A. in biology from Dartmouth College and a JD from Stanford Law School. He also studied at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and MIT.
