William Hederman

William F. Hederman is an adjunct professor for energy and climate geopolitics in the joint Maxwell School-CSIS Executive Master’s in International Relations program. He is also a visiting presidential fellow at the Catholic University of America (CUA), where he co-teaches energy and climate geopolitics with CUA’s president and advises on sustainability issues. Hederman was a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent government service was as a direct report senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, serving as the chief architect of the groundbreaking Quadrennial Energy Review’s analytic framework and lead analyst on the in-country team sent to Ukraine at President Poroshenko’s request (after Russia’s first invasion in 2014), as well as on missions to the Baltics and Germany. Earlier government service included establishing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Market Oversight and Investigations after the Enron/California electricity crisis and being the first energy budget analyst at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Hederman’s other major assignments included executive director, COO, and board member of the International Energy Agency’s International Centre for Gas Technology Information and vice president for business development and strategic initiatives at Columbia Energy Group’s transmission subsidiary. In 2021, the IEEE Board of Directors awarded Bill its Distinguished Ethical Practices award. He holds an MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a BS in electrical engineering from Notre Dame, and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley.