Work:
Tel: 202/586-9275
Fax: 202/586-1640
E-Mail: allan.hoffman@hq.doe.gov
Dr. Allan R. Hoffman
1621 Apricot Court
Reston, Virginia 20190-4403
Home:
Tel: 703/437-4332
Fax: 703/437-1511
E-Mail: ecosse@erols.com
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Hoffman currently serves as Director of the Country Studies Program in the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Physics degree from Cornell University, a Master of Science degree in physics from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in physics from Brown University. In addition to summer research positions while a student, he has served as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Brown
University, a Research Physicist with Texas Instruments, Incorporated, and an Assistant Professor of
Physics at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).
He came to Washington, D.C. in 1974 as a Congressional Fellow of the American Physical
Society and subsequently served as: Staff Scientist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation; Director, Advanced Energy Systems Policy Division, U.S.
Department of Energy; Assistant Director for Industrial Programs, Energy Productivity Center,
Mellon Institute; Consultant and Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S.
Congress.
In 1982 he joined the staff of the National Academy of Sciences as Executive Director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, a joint unit of the National Academy of
Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. Subsequently he served as
Executive Director of the National Research Council's Office of Government and External Affairs.
In 1990 he returned to the U.S. Department of Energy where he has served as Associate and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Utility Technologies in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. He has managed a $300 million RD&D program, with responsibility for renewable electric technologies (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, ocean) and related enabling technologies (energy storage, hydrogen, high temperature superconductivity). He also serves as:
U.S. Representative to and Vice Chairman of the International Energy Agency’s Working Party on Renewable Energy
U.S. representative to the World Bank’s Energy and Environment Steering Committee
Official point of contact for U.S.-China, U.S.-India and other U.S.-developing nation bilateral discussions on renewable energy
Dr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.