Arun Majumdar

Dr. Arun Majumdar is the inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University. He holds faculty appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering, and Photon Science at SLAC, and is a Senior Fellow at both the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Hoover Institution (courtesy). Appointed by President Obama, Dr. Majumdar was the Founding Director of ARPA-E from 2009 to 2012, where he built the agency into a model for government innovation. He also served as Acting Under Secretary of Energy and Senior Advisor to Secretary Steven Chu, helping lead initiatives like SunShot and the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. During the Biden-Harris transition, he led the Department of Energy review team and later chaired the DOE Advisory Board under Secretary Jennifer Granholm. He also served as Science Envoy for the U.S. State Department, focusing on innovation in the Baltics and Poland. Before joining Stanford, he was Vice President for Energy at Google. Dr. Majumdar is a member of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.