• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Hon. Paul Dabbar

United States Department of Energy (DOE)

Under Secretary for Science

Hon. Paul M. Dabbar, Under Secretary for Science, US Department of Energy (DOE), serves as the Department’s principal advisor on fundamental energy research, energy technologies, and science, driving this mission through programs that include nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy, advanced computing, fusion, biological and environmental research, as well as direct management over a majority of the Department’s national labs and world-leading user facilities. Additionally, Hon. Dabbar manages the DOE’s environmental and legacy management missions, addressing the US legacy of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. He also leads the Department’s technology commercialization activities. Prior to his confirmation, Hon. Dabbar worked in energy sector operations, finance, and strategy. As Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, leading various energy business areas, he has over $400 billion investment experience across energy sectors, including solar, wind, geothermal, distributed generation, utility, LNG, pipeline, oil and gas, trading, and energy technologies, and led most nuclear transactions. Hon. Dabbar had a senior leadership role for the company’s commodity trading business, including power, oil, and gas. Before J.P. Morgan, Hon. Dabbar served as nuclear submarine Officer in California and Hawaii, deploying to the North Pole to conduct environmental research. He also served on the Department of Energy Environmental Management Advisory Board. Hon. Dabbar has been a lecturer at the US Naval Academy and a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hon. Dabbar holds a BS from the US Naval Academy, and a master’s degree from Columbia University.


Sessions With Hon. Paul Dabbar

Tuesday, 10 March

Wednesday, 11 March

Friday, 13 March

  • 10:20am - 11:05am (CST) / -

    Plenary - Will Energy Innovation Deliver?
    Clean Tech Digitalization Innovation & Technology

    Innovation is cutting the costs of wind, solar, storage, and efficiency. It lies behind the hopes for commercially viable carbon extraction, hydrogen, and fusion. To deliver impact, innovation must achieve transformative scales. Innovations are expected to advance economic growth, ensure secure access, generate reliable supplies, and reduce emissions and costs. How do governments, scientists, industry, and investors prioritize among these goals? What are the critical points of innovation to mitigate risk and open market opportunities?