Hon. William F. Martin

The Honorable William F. Martin is a former Deputy Secretary of Energy, Special Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council during the administration of Ronald Reagan. Of special note was his role as coordinator of President Reagan’s international meetings and international travel. He participated with President Reagan in more than twenty head of state meetings and had the honor to travel frequently with President Reagan to Europe, Asia and throughout North America. He currently serves as Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (NEAC). He is also Chairman of Washington Policy and Analysis, an international energy consulting firm. Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations in l983, he served for ten years as the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Energy Security Group. During 2008, he was appointed by Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to be Project Coordinator of a high-level review group responsible for making recommendations for the future of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, Mr. Martin also served as President of the Council of the University for Peace of the United Nations, appointed to the Council by Secretary General Kofi Anan. Prior to this, he had served as a project director for a United Nations group evaluating energy scenarios for North Korea (DPRK). He has had numerous publications, including an article in the Harvard Business Review and was the lead author of a Trilateral Commission study, Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context. As Deputy Secretary of Energy he headed a Reagan administration task force on energy security that resulted in his being awarded the DOE’s highest honor. He has also served in the MIT Energy Laboratory, International Energy Agency, Department of State and Department of Defense. Active in US-Japan energy and nuclear energy relations for almost thirty years, he convenes the Santa Fe seminar every two years, which brings together senior Japanese government and business leaders with their American counterparts.