Ben DeAngelo

Benjamin DeAngelo is an experienced leader bridging climate science with climate mitigation and adaptation actions. He has over 27 years of experience in the U.S. federal government leading and initiating domestic and international policy actions and research assessments.

Most recently, DeAngelo was the first Director of the Office of Climate Adaptation and Sustainability at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). From 2017 to late 2024, DeAngelo was the Deputy Director of the Climate Program Office in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), helping to lead that office’s work to support foundational climate research and regionally based adaptation programs. He initiated a first-of-its-kind partnership between NOAA and the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) to bring the science of our changing climate into the next generation of infrastructure standards. DeAngelo has a history of involvement in the Arctic Council, including his role to bring about voluntary reporting and mitigation targets for black carbon emissions. From 2021-2023 he served as the Chair of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), a working group under the Arctic Council.

DeAngelo also served as the Deputy Executive Director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program and Senior Advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He helped lead the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment. DeAngelo served in the EPA previously where he was a Senior Analyst for climate science and policy and was one of the authors of EPA’s 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding. He is an author or editor on over 25 publications covering climate impact assessments, black carbon emissions, greenhouse gas mitigation, and Arctic trends. DeAngelo received his bachelor’s in geography at Pennsylvania State University, master’s in geography at the University of Toronto, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. In 2022, DeAngelo was named by Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as one of its 125th Anniversary Fellows. .