Ali Douraghy

Career path.

1. Google DeepMind

   Head of Special Projects, Frontier AI Affairs

   Apr 2026 - Present
2. Google

   Head of AI Cloud for Federal Science

   Oct 2025 - Apr 2026
3. Google

   Director of Energy & Climate Research

   Aug 2023 - Oct 2025
4. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

   Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Science & Innovation

   Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
5. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

   Chief of Staff, Office of the Under Secretary for Science & Energy

   Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
6. Berkeley Lab

   Chief Strategy Officer, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area

   Dec 2015 - Jan 2021
7. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

   Project Director, New Voices

   Oct 2015 - Jan 2021
8. USAID

   Director of Science & Technology

   Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
9. USAID

   Science & Technology Advisor / AAAS Fellow

   Sep 2010 - Aug 2012
10. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

    Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2010
11. The Fulbright Program

    Fulbright Fellow

    Mar 2009 - Dec 2009
12. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

    Imaging Scientist, Graduate Student Researcher

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2009
13. Aurora Biosciences

    Associate Bioengineer

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2002