U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall
555 Post Street, San Francisco
$5 HCSF Members / $10 non-members
11:15 a.m. check-In, noon program
Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood Randall, Deputy Energy Secretary; Former White House Coordinator for Defense Policy
Dr. Gloria Duffy, President and CEO, The Commonwealth Club–Moderator
Protecting America’s Energy Infrastructure
Deputy Energy Secretary Sherwood Randall will discuss resiliency in the energy sector related to natural and man-made threats, including those in the cyber domain. She will focus on the Department of Energy’s diverse initiatives to strengthen and protect the nation's energy infrastructure, and how the department partners with the private sector to support shared resiliency goals.
Dr. Sherwood-Randall has served as second in command at the Energy Department since October 2014. She joined the Obama administration on day one, serving from 2009 to 2013 as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council, and from 2013 to 2014 as White House coordinator for defense policy, countering weapons of mass destruction, and arms control. Before joining President Obama’s team, Dr. Sherwood-Randall worked at Stanford University, Harvard University, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In the Clinton Administration, she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Sherwood-Randall attended college at Harvard and then went on to graduate school at Oxford University, where she was among the very early ranks of female Rhodes Scholars. After finishing her education, she began her career working for then-Senator Joe Biden as his chief advisor on foreign and defense policy.