energy permitting,
clean energy
Diego Núñez is a former Digital Services Alumni Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and Georgetown University’s Tech & Society Initiative. Most recently, Diego served in the Biden-Harris Administration as a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Climate Policy Office. In that role, he worked across the power and transportation sectors on major initiatives including advanced transmission technologies and grid modernization, nuclear power, critical minerals, and solutions to manage load growth from data centers and artificial intelligence. Diego began his tenure in the White House serving as an Associate Staff Secretary.
Prior to his time at the White House, Diego served at the Department of the Treasury in the Office of Recovery Programs, at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and on multiple political campaigns.
He holds an M.A. in National Security Policy from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and an A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University.
A cohesive strategy to achieve two goals: (1) deploy the clean energy and grid upgrades necessary to make energy affordable and combat climate change and (2) create governments that tangibly improve peoples’ lives.
To maximize clean energy deployment, we must address the project development and political barriers that have held us back from smart policymaking and implementation that can withstand political change. Here’s how.