---
title: "Ernest Moniz"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Ernest Moniz"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-03T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["USEC Inc.","USEC 2014 bankruptcy","American Centrifuge Plant","U.S. Department of Energy"]
seek_code_commit: "290e6f6"
---


American physicist (MIT) who served as U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2013 to 2017. Matters to this vault as the Cabinet official who oversaw the Department of Energy's handling of [[claim-usec-2014-chapter11-filed-to-refinance-convertible-notes|USEC Inc.'s 2014 Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] and its American Centrifuge Plant contracts — a decade after having been a paid member of USEC's own strategic advisory council from 2002 to 2004, a prior financial relationship to the company his later post adjudicated.

## References
- [[claim-ernest-moniz-usec-advisory-council-2002-2004]]