Allan R. Hoffman

Dr. Allan R. Hoffman

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Hoffman retired in 2012 as Senior Analyst in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Physics degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in physics from Brown University.

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, DOE

* 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 U.S. National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, where he served as Executive Director of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy.

In 1990 he returned to DOE where he has served as Associate and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Utility Technologies, with responsibility for a $300 million RD&D program (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, energy storage, hydrogen, superconductivity). He has also served as U.S. Representative to and Vice Chairman of the International Energy Agency’s Working Party on Renewable Energy.

In the decade before his retirement he pioneered in exploring the linkage between water and energy issues (the water-energy nexus) and helped develop DOE’s offshore wind energy program.

Dr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.