Professional Highlights

CEO | Denetek LLC
Developing Small Modular Nuclear Reactor (SMR) projects around the world

Co-Founder & Managing Director | Eney LLC
Creating decarbonization solutions for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Senior Fellow | Atlantic Council
Eurasia Center

Board Member | The Institute for Security and Technology
Helping bridge technology and policy to create actionable solutions to emerging security challenges

Diplomat | US Department of State
Tours in Kuwait, The Bahamas, Iraq, Ukraine, and Washington, DC

Vice Chair | Sub-Committee on Renewable Energy | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

International Energy Counsel | US Department of Commerce
Advising governments around the world on Energy Transition implementation

Various energy & environmental legal positions
Hunton & Williams, Donahue & Goldberg, others

DC Court of Appeals | Judicial Law Clerk
Chief Judge Eric T. Washington

Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) | PhD (underway)
Thesis: “Pipelines as Faultlines: Nord Stream II vs. the European Union’s Third Energy Package and Other Energy Law National Security Battles”

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) | Master of Law, magna cum laude  
Energy & Environmental Law

American University Washington College of Law (Washington, DC) | Juris Doctor, cum laude   

Claremont McKenna College (Los Angeles, CA) | Bachelor of Arts
International Relations & Conflict Management    

Selected Awards & Fellowships

2020 - Superior Honor Award, U.S. Department of State (for negotiating the unbundling of Ukraine’s gas monopoly)

2020 - Salzman Award for Excellence in International Economic Performance (finalist), U.S. Department of State

2014 - Meritorious Honor Award, U.S. Department of State (for the “excellent” coverage of two officers’ portfolios)

2009 - Wilson Scholarship (for an outstanding member of the Law Review’s Senior Editorial Board)

2008 & 2009 - Dean’s Fellowships, Energy & Administrative Law, American University Washington College of Law

2008 - Energy & Natural Resources Law Scholarship            

2002 & 2003 - Senior Research Fellowships, Kravis Leadership Institute

2001 - Fellowship, Salvatori Center for the Study of Freedom in the Modern World