U.S. Competitiveness Amid a Changing Natural Gas Landscape: A View from the Southeast [Keynote Address]
Moniz, Ernest
Ernest Moniz delivers the keynote address of the Sam Nunn Bank of American Policy Forum 2014. The Policy Forum raises public awareness and highlight prospects for American, regional, and Georgia Tech leadership to seize opportunities and meet the challenges presented by the natural gas boom.
Presented at the 2014 Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum: U.S. Competitiveness Amid a Changing Natural Gas Landscape: A View from the Southeast, April 16, 2014, in the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center.; As the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz is tasked with implementing critical Department of Energy missions in support of President Barack Obama’s goals of
growing the economy, enhancing security, and protecting the environment. This encompasses advancing the president’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, maintaining the nuclear deterrent and reducing the nuclear danger, promoting American leadership in science and clean energy technology innovation, cleaning up the legacy
of the Cold War, and strengthening management and performance.
Prior to his appointment, Moniz was the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was a faculty member since 1973. At MIT, he headed the Department of Physics and the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. Most recently, he served as the founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative and of the MIT Laboratory
for Energy and the Environment and was a leader of multidisciplinary technology and policy studies on the future of nuclear power, coal, nuclear fuel cycles, natural gas, and solar energy in a low-carbon world.
From 1997 until January 2001, Moniz served as
under secretary of the Department of Energy. He was responsible for overseeing the department’s science and energy programs, leading a comprehensive review of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, and serving as the secretary’s special negotiator for the disposition of Russian nuclear materials. From 1995 to 1997, he served as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.
In addition to his work at MIT, the White House and the Department of Energy, Moniz has served on a number of boards of directors and commissions involving science, energy, and security. These include President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Department of Defense’s Threat Reduction Advisory Committee, and the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Moniz is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society.
Moniz received a bachelor of science degree, summa cum laude, in physics from Boston College; a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University; and honorary degrees from the University of Athens, the University
of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Michigan State University, and Universidad Pontificia Comillas.; Runtime: 59:28 minutes