Dr. Dan Hammer is a Managing Partner at Ode, a tech and design agency for the environment. He is the winner of the inaugural Pritzker Environmental Genius Award; a member of the Brain Trust at XPRIZE; and a Senior Technical Advisor at Earth Alliance.

Dan earned his PhD in environmental economics from U.C. Berkeley, where he was a Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and won the 2019 Mark Bingham Prize for Excellence by a Young Alumnus. He previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Obama White House, a Senior Advisor at Google X, and a Presidential Innovation Fellow at NASA.

Dan was the Chief Data Scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he co-founded Global Forest Watch. He has been a National Geographic Fellow and a lead math instructor at San Quentin State Prison with the Prison University Project.

Dan graduated with high honors in mathematics and economics from Swarthmore College, where he was a Lang Opportunity Scholar and a Watson Fellow.