William F. Martin
William F. Martin is chairman of Washington Policy and Analysis, Inc.. He is a former Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy under President Reagan. [1]
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Education
Martin was educated at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (BS, 1972) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM, 1974). His master’s thesis formed the basis of an article he wrote for the Harvard Business Review (“Our Society in 1985: Business may not like it, March 1975”).[2]
MIT Energy Laboratory
On graduating from MIT, Martin joined the MIT Energy Laboratory as Program Officer for the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies. During his four years at MIT, he co-authored three books, Growth and Its Implications for the Future, (Roundtable Press, 1973), Energy Supply to the Year 2000 (MIT Press, 1977) and Professional Materials for Environmental Management Education (MIT Press, 1975).[3]
International Energy Agency
After MIT, Martin joined the International Energy Agency, where he was responsible for energy statistics for developing countries, and was a member of a United Nations expert group that developed a methodology for reporting UN energy statistics. In 1977, he was promoted to special assistant to the Executive Director of IEA, Ulf Lantzke, a post he held for three years during the time of the second oil shock.[4]
Reagan Administration
After four years at the IEA, Martin joined the Department of State as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State. He was transferred to the National Security Council in 1981 as Director of International Economic Affairs. From 1983 to 1985, he was appointed Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, responsible for the coordination of the President’s international and head of state meetings. Martin also served as the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council before being confirmed by the United States Senate as United States Deputy Secretary of Energy.[5]
Later career
In 1992, Martin served as the Executive Director of the Republican Platform Committee and co-authored the Committee’s volume, The Shared Vision, Uniting our family, our country, our world (Republican National Committee, 1992).[6]
In 1997, Martin was a co-author of a Trilateral Commission study, Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context.[7]
In 1998, he joined the board of the World Resources Institute and served as WRI’s Chairman of the Development Committee.[8]
In 1998, Martin co-founded the Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Program at the Prague Security Studies Program.[9]
Martin was an advisor to the US Deputy Secretary of Defense in 2003.[10]
Martin was appointed to the Council of the University for Peace by the Secretary General of the United Nations in 2004. He was elected Chairman of the Council of the University for Peace in October 2006.[11]
In 2006, he helped to launch the Prague Security Studies Program's Club of Prague initiative.[12]
Affiliations
- Prague Security Studies Institute - Board of directors; chairman of Corporate Council.[13]
- Club of Prague - Co-founder[14]
- US Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee chairman[15]
Notes
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Staff, William F. Martin, Prague Security Studies Institute, Accessed 12 July 2010
- ↑ Profile, Washington Policy & Analysis, accessed 12 July 2010.
- ↑ Staff, William F. Martin, Prague Security Studies Institute, Accessed 12 July 2010
- ↑ Staff, William F. Martin, Prague Security Studies Institute, Accessed 12 July 2010
- ↑ Staff, William F. Martin, Prague Security Studies Institute, Accessed 12 July 2010
- ↑ Staff, William F. Martin, Prague Security Studies Institute, Accessed 12 July 2010
