05/01/2025 at 10:00AM
Full committee hearing.
Nominee:
- Paul Dabbar, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce for global trade and technology
Dabbar is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Bohr Quantum Technology, a company developing quantum networking systems. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. During the first presidency of Donald Trump, he was a United States Department of Energy Under Secretary, serving as Under Secretary of Energy for Science. As a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, leading various energy business areas, he had over $400 billion in investment experience across all energy sectors including solar, wind, geothermal, distributed-generation, utility, LNG, pipeline, oil & gas, trading, and energy technologies, and has also led the majority of all nuclear transactions. In addition, he had a senior leadership role for the company’s commodity trading business, including power, oil and gas.