Paul Dabbar

{{Short description|American investment banker and government official (born 1967)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| name = Paul Dabbar

| image = Paul M. Dabbar.jpg

| caption = Official portrait, 2017

| office = United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce

| status = Nominee

| president = Donald Trump

| term_start = TBD*

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| 1blankname = Secretary

| 1namedata = Howard Lutnick

| succeeding = Jeremy Pelter (acting)

| predecessor = Jeremy Pelter (acting)

| successor =

| office1 = Under Secretary of Energy for Science

| president1 = Donald Trump

| term_start1 = November 7, 2017

| term_end1 = January 20, 2021

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| spouse = Andrea

| children = 2

| education = United States Naval Academy (BS)
Columbia University (MBA)

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| footnotes = {{small|*Pending Senate confirmation}}

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Paul M. Dabbar{{cite web|url=https://www.energy.gov/contributors/paul-m-dabbar|title=Paul M. Dabbar|website=U.S. Department of Energy|access-date=December 7, 2017}} (born July 8, 1967) is chief executive officer and co-founder of Bohr Quantum Technology, a company developing quantum networking systems.{{cite web |last1=Bohr Quantum Tech website |title=website description of company |url=https://bohrquantum.com/}} He also a distinguished visiting fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.{{cite web |last1=SIPA Columbia University |first1=CGEP |title=University web page for CGEP |url=https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/paul-dabbar}} In March 2025, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the United States deputy secretary of commerce.

Dabbar is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Columbia Business School.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=April 11, 2019|title=DOE Under Secretary for Science Visits Plasma Physics Lab|url=https://apam.columbia.edu/doe-under-secretary-science-paul-dabbar-visits-columbias-plasma-physics-lab|access-date=August 8, 2020|website=Columbia Engineering}} He served as a nuclear submarine officer aboard the {{USS|Pintado|SSN-672}} out of Mare Island, California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, including deployment to the North Pole, where he conducted environmental research. He has been a lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy and has conducted research at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.{{cite news|last1=Nicholas|first1=Scott|title=Trump to Nominate Paul Dabbar as DOE Undersecretary for Science|url=http://www.executivegov.com/2017/07/trump-to-nominate-paul-dabbar-as-under-secretary-of-science-at-doe/|access-date=August 15, 2017|publisher=ExecutiveGov|date=July 12, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Paul M. Dabbar|url=https://energy.gov/em/contributors/paul-m-dabbar |publisher=Energy.gov|access-date=August 15, 2017}}

Prior to entering government service, Dabbar was a managing director at J.P. Morgan & Co. He also served on the United States Department of Energy's Environmental Management Advisory Board.{{cite news|title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/11/president-donald-j-trump-announces-key-additions-his-administration|access-date=August 15, 2017|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|date=July 11, 2017}}{{PD-notice}}{{cite web|title=Paul M. Dabbar|url=https://energy.gov/em/contributors/paul-m-dabbar|publisher=Energy.gov|access-date=August 15, 2017}}

During the first presidency of Donald Trump, he was a United States Department of Energy Under Secretary, serving as Under Secretary of Energy for Science. He served as the Department’s principal advisor on fundamental energy research, energy technologies, and science, driving this mission through programs including nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy, advanced computing, fusion, and biological and environmental research, and direct management over a majority of the Department’s national labs. In addition, he managed the environmental and legacy management missions of the Department, addressing the U.S. legacy of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Dabbar was also the lead for technology commercialization activities for the Department and its 17 national labs.{{cite web |last1=US Department of Energy |first1=Under Secretary biography |title=DOE Official Biography |url=https://www.energy.gov/person/paul-m-dabbar}}

In February 2025, during the second presidency of Donald Trump, Dabbar was nominated as the United States deputy secretary of commerce.{{Cite web |last=Fields |first=Ashleigh |date=February 28, 2025 |title=Trump adds Paul Dabbar, Hung Cao to administration |url=https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5168731-trump-appoints-paul-dabbar-hung-cao/ |access-date=March 15, 2025 |website=thehill.com}} On March 11, his nomination was sent to the Senate.{{Cite web |date=March 11, 2025 |title=Nominations Sent to the Senate |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-8355/ |access-date=March 15, 2025 |website=The White House |language=en-US}} His nomination is pending before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.{{Cite web |date=March 10, 2025 |title=PN26-12 — Paul Dabbar — Department of Commerce |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/119th-congress/26/12 |website=congress.gov}}