{"id":383699,"date":"2020-11-12T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T03:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383699"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T03:46:03","slug":"ex-google-exec-arun-majumdar-top-pick-to-be-bidens-energy-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ex-google-exec-arun-majumdar-top-pick-to-be-bidens-energy-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google exec Arun Majumdar top pick to be Biden&#8217;s energy secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google executive who previously led an Energy Department unit that funded research into experimental power projects is among the front-runners to lead the agency under President-elect Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Arun Majumdar, a Stanford University engineering professor who was named Tuesday to lead the Biden transition team for the agency, is on the short-list to be Energy secretary, the people said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has to be the front-runner if Joe Biden is looking for a politically savvy technical expert to lead the agency,\u201d said Jeff Navin, a co-founder and partner at Boundary Stone Partners, a Washington-based government affairs and communications firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google executive who previously led an Energy Department unit that funded research into experimental power projects is among the front-runners to lead the agency under President-elect Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the matter. Arun Majumdar, a Stanford University engineering professor who was named Tuesday to lead the Biden transition team for the agency, is on the short-list to be Energy secretary, the people said. \u201cHe has to be the front-runner if Joe Biden is looking for a politically savvy technical expert to lead the agency,\u201d said Jeff Navin, a co-founder and partner at Boundary Stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}