NAME: Ernest Moniz

AGE: 68

EDUCATION: B.S., Boston College, 1966; Ph.D., Stanford University, 1971.

FAMILY: Wife Naomi Hoki, one grown child. Lives in Brookline, Mass.

CAREER: Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems and director, MIT Energy Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2001 to present; undersecretary of Energy, 1997 - 2001; associate director for science, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1995-97; physics professor, MIT, 1973-1997.