Dan Hammer

Dr. Dan Hammer is the co-founder of LGND, a venture-backed startup building AI infrastructure for Earth observation data, and co-founder of Ode, a design and technology agency for environmental applications. He previously served as Chief Data Scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he co-founded Global Forest Watch, and as a Senior Advisor at Google X. Dan was a Senior Policy Advisor in the Obama White House (Office of Science and Technology Policy) and a Presidential Innovation Fellow at NASA. He is a National Geographic Explorer and recipient of the inaugural Pritzker Environmental Genius Award and UC Berkeley’s Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement. Dan holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from UC Berkeley, and graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College as a Lang Scholar and Watson Fellow.