Jonathan Moch

Jonathan Moch is the Senior Advisor for Climate and Energy Policy in the Office of North Carolina Governor Josh Stein.

Previously, he was Science and Technology Policy Advisor for the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and Office of Global Change in the U.S. Department of State, where he designed, negotiated, and implemented international climate and energy initiatives and agreements.

Before arriving at the State Department, Jonathan was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University with appointments to the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Center for Climate, Health, the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Environment and Natural Resources and Science, Technology, and Public Policy Programs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Jonathan also previously worked at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. as the ChinaFAQs Project Specialist in WRI's Climate and Energy Program. 

Jonathan holds a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a Secondary Field in Science, Technology and Society and a S.M. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Harvard University. He received his A.B. with high honors from the Department of Geosciences and from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, with minors in Environmental Studies and Chinese Language and Culture.