Kathleen Hogan 

Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Infrastructure, U.S. Department of Energy

Kathleen Hogan is a distinguished national leader in clean energy with a more than twenty-year career as a federal executive spanning the US EPA and DOE. She currently serves as the Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Infrastructure at DOE. Prior positions include the Acting Under Secretary for Science and Energy where she helped the Agency launch its Energy Earthshot program and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency at the DOE.  There, she oversaw a more than $600 million annual energy efficiency policy, program, and research portfolio and helped pursue national goals in advanced manufacturing, building energy technologies, low-income weatherization, appliance and equipment minimum standards, federal energy management, and building energy codes.  

Earlier, she led an EPA division for more than ten years in the development and implementation of a suite of clean energy policies and programs to cost-effectively address global climate change. There, she established a strong track record of addressing complex challenges in the energy and climate arena using voluntary partnership approaches, including leading the ENERGY STAR program to national prominence. 

Hogan has been recognized throughout her career for her leadership in public service, most recently with a Presidential Rank Award (2015), The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals Career Achievement Award  (2016), and a  Secretary of Energy Exceptional Service Award  (2018). 

She holds a PhD from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University and a BS in chemistry from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.