Alan S. Hegburg

Alan Hegburg is a senior fellow in the CSIS Energy and National Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, he served for 17 years in the U.S. Departments of State and Energy, most recently as deputy assistant secretary for international energy policy in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the Energy Department. In that position, he directed analytical, energy policy, and representational work covering the Eurasian land mass (including Russia, the Baltics, and Ukraine), Central Asia, the Caspian and the Caucasus, the Middle East, Africa, and certain multilateral organizations. The office’s responsibilities also included global energy market developments; domestic political, economic, and strategic factors influencing the global energy economy; making policy recommendations on international energy security issues; promoting U.S. commercial interests internationally; and participating in bilateral and multilateral agreements.

At the Department of State, Mr. Hegburg served in the Europe and Asia Bureaus and internationally in Germany and Paris, the latter on assignment to the International Energy Agency. In the private sector, he spent 17 years at Phillips Petroleum, Amoco, and BP as manager of international government relations and director of international and geopolitical analysis. He has participated in international exploration and production negotiations involving investment opportunities in Asia, Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East, and Latin America. Mr. Hegburg has taught graduate courses on the geopolitics of energy at George Washington and Columbia Universities and lectured at other universities. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University.