Stephen G. Burns

Stephen G. Burns
Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In office
January 1, 2015 – January 23, 2017
President Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded by Allison Macfarlane
Succeeded by Kristine Svinicki
Personal details
Alma mater Colgate University
George Washington University

Stephen G. Burns is an American lawyer and former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Education and career

Burns received a bachelor's degree in 1975 from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He received his law degree with honors in 1978 from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was an editor on the George Washington Law Review.[1]

Burns joined the NRC as an attorney in 1978. He served as Deputy General Counsel starting in 1998 then served as General Counsel from May 2009 until April 2012. He left the NRC to serve as Head of Legal Affairs of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris from April 2012, until he rejoined the NRC. until he rejoined the NRC in November 2014 with a term that will end in June 2019. He served as the 16th chairman of NRC from January 2014 to January 2017.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Stephen G. Burns: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
  2. ↑ "Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Who Is Stephen Burns?". AllGov. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
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