Paul M. Dabbar[4] (born July 8, 1967) is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Bohr Quantum Technology, a company developing quantum networking systems.[5] He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.[6]
During the presidency of Donald Trump, he was a United States Department of Energy Under Secretary, serving as Under Secretary of Energy for Science. He served as the Department’s principal advisor on fundamental energy research, energy technologies, and science, driving this mission through programs including nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy, advanced computing, fusion, and biological and environmental research, and direct management over a majority of the Department’s national labs. In addition, he managed the environmental and legacy management missions of the Department, addressing the U.S. legacy of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Dabbar was also the lead for technology commercialization activities for the Department and its 17 national labs.[7]
Prior to that role, he was a managing director at J.P. Morgan & Co. He also served on the United States Department of Energy's Environmental Management Advisory Board.[8][9]
Dabbar is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Columbia Business School.[10] He served as a nuclear submarine officer aboard the USS Pintado (SSN-672) out of Mare Island, California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including deployment to the North Pole, where he conducted environmental research. He has been a lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy and has conducted research at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.[8][11][12]
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