Data Journeys

Dan Hammer is an environmental economist and winner of the 2017 Pritzker Prize for the Environment. Currently he serves as a National Geographic Fellow and the co-founder of Earthrise Media, and throughout 2016, he was the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Megan Smith, as part of the Obama Administration.   Before arriving at the White House, Dan was the Presidential Innovation Fellow that released the first API listing for NASA. Prior to NASA, Hammer was the Chief Data Scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he helped re-launch Global Forest Watch, an open-source project to monitor deforestation.   After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2007 with high honors in mathematics and economics, and before receiving his PhD in environmental economics from the University of California, Berkeley, Dan was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and traveled to Polynesia to build and race outrigger canoes. Today, among many other amazing mentors, he continues to works with Steve McCormick