ARPA-E Program Director — Federal Agency

**Dr. James Okoro** is a Program Director at the **Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)**, the DOE agency modeled after DARPA that funds high-risk, high-reward energy technology research. ARPA-E's budget is approximately $500M annually, funding projects that are too risky for private sector investment but have the potential to transform the US energy landscape. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and previously worked at a national laboratory on next-generation battery technologies.