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DOE resuscitates advisory board jettisoned under Bush
The Energy Department Tuesday announced the reestablishment of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), an independent advisory panel that was eliminated under the Bush administration.
"They will be providing their expertise and experience at a critical time for our country as we chart a new course toward a clean energy future," Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a statement.
The 12-member board will report directly to Chu and is expected to meet twice a year and other times as needed, according to DOE’s announcement. It will also be organized into subcommittees.
The 12-member board includes former Clinton Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch, who earlier in his career was an under secretary of energy under President Carter; Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry and former Clinton Labor Secretary Alexis Herman.
The board’s other members are National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Cicerone; Norman Augustine, former Under Secretary for the Army under President Nixon and Ford and former Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin; United Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President Michael McQuade; Former Dupont CEO Chad Holliday; Former IBM official Nicholas Donofrio; Arthur Rosenfeld, former commissioner of the California Energy Commission; Susan Tierney, managing principle at Analysis Group; Steven Westly, managing partner at Westly Group; and Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
They will provide advice and recommendations to Chu on the department’s “basic and applied research, economic and national security policy, educational issues, operational issues and other activities as directed by the Secretary,” according to DOE’s announcement.
The board was chartered in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush but was done away with in 2006 by President George W. Bush’s Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, who preferred guidance from DOE staff.
