Dan Hammer

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Dan Hammer is an environmental economist and winner of both the inaugural Pritzker Award and the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement by Young Alumni at UC Berkeley. He is the cofounder of LGND, an AI infrastructure company for Earth observation data; Ode, a mission-driven technology and design agency known for building digital products for Jane Goodall, Al Gore, and WWF; and Clay, a nonprofit open-source initiative developing a large Earth observation foundation model. Ode's projects have earned numerous awards, including several Webby and Anthem awards. Hammer is a National Geographic Fellow, and served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in the Obama Administration. He was the Presidential Innovation Fellow who released the first API listing for NASA, amounting to the data infrastructure design for the space agency's public data. In addition, 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.

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• •Known as: software engineer