Today’s guest is Narayan Subramanian. Under the Biden administration, he was a legal advisor, and then an advisor to the Secretary at the Department of Energy (DOE). Later, he was the Director for Energy Transition at the White House National Security Council.

We’ve talked to previous guests about how to ensure government money flows fast and effectively. At the DOE, Subramanian helped ensure that a big influx of money could best be used to support innovative energy projects. If you’ve followed Statecraft a while, you know we’re very interested in how to actually deploy taxpayer dollars most effectively. Narayan played a key role in making sure that DOE could do just that.

We Discuss:

* How the DOE took its modern form

* Why don’t tools for funding R&D work for funding deployment?

* Does the federal interest in IP stop banks from supporting new tech?

* What kinds of technologies can you support with “other transactions authority”?

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