Benjamin DeAngelo is the Deputy Director of the Climate Program Office in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where he helps lead this office’s efforts to support foundational climate research, adaptation and resiliency, and climate change education. DeAngelo also serves as NOAA’s Principal to the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), as well as the Chair of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), a working group under the Arctic Council. Before joining NOAA in 2017, DeAngelo was the Deputy Executive Director of USGCRP and Senior Advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He helped lead the 4th U.S. National Climate Assessment (2018). Prior to that DeAngelo was with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) where he was a Senior Analysist for climate science and policy. At EPA, DeAngelo was the technical lead for the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding under the Clean Air Act. He is an author or editor on over 25 publications covering climate impact assessments, black carbon, greenhouse gas mitigation, and Arctic trends. DeAngelo received his bachelor’s at Pennsylvania State University, master’s at the University of Toronto, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. In 2021, DeAngelo was named by Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences as one of its 125th Anniversary Fellows. He lives in Washington, DC and is married with two young children.