| Frank Verrastro is director
and senior fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS) Energy Program. He has extensive energy
experience, having spent 25 years in energy policy and project
management positions in the U.S. government and the private sector.
His
government service includes staff positions in the White House (Energy
Policy and Planning Staff) and the Departments of Interior (Oil and Gas
Office) and Energy (Domestic Policy and International Affairs Office),
including serving as director of the Office of Producing Nations and
deputy assistant secretary for international energy resources.
In the
private sector, Mr. Verrastro has served as director of refinery policy
and crude oil planning for TOSCO (formerly the nation's largest
independent refiner) and more recently as senior vice president for
Pennzoil. At Pennzoil, he was responsible for the company's
government-relations activity, both domestic and international. He also
served on the company's international risk assessment and negotiations
teams, as well as on the management and operating committees and its
Environmental Safety and Health Leadership Council.
Prior to joining CSIS in the fall of 2003, he served as senior policy adviser at the law
firm of Vinson & Elkins, working with the firm's task force on Iraq
reconstruction.
Mr. Verrastro holds a B.S. in biology/chemistry from
Fairfield University, a master's degree from Harvard University, and he
completed the executive management program at the Yale University
Graduate School of Business and Management. He is an adjunct professor
at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington
University. He has also lectured at Harvard, American University, the
University of Maryland, Georgetown University, National Defense
University, and the Foreign Service Institute. He has been a frequent
presenter on energy policy panels at SAIS/Johns Hopkins University, the
Brookings Institution, Meridian House International, the National Press
Club, and on NPR. |
