Daniel B. Poneman served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy and Chief Operating Officer of the Department from 2009 through 2014. Subsequently, he served for eight years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Centrus Energy Corp., the only U.S.-based producer of enriched uranium.
Earlier, Poneman served as a White House Fellow at the Department of Energy and Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff under President George H.W. Bush. Under President Bill Clinton, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council.
Poneman has published and spoken widely on energy and national security, including four books. The third, Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, received the 2005 Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy. His most recent book is Double Jeopardy: Combating Nuclear Terror and Climate Change.
Poneman is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Paulson Institute, and a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He advises businesses and serves on boards in the energy sector. He has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan and the Bronze Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit from the Republic of Korea. Poneman received AB and JD degrees with honors from Harvard University and an MLitt from Oxford University.