Andrew Light
United States Department of Energy
Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
Andrew Light is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs. (Acting Assistant Secretary). Andrew has worked on international climate and energy policy in and outside of government for the last 15 years. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Senior Adviser and India Counselor to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, as well as a climate adviser in the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning. Outside of government, Light was a Distinguished Fellow in the Global Climate Program at the World Resources Institute where he led a series of Track II climate and energy dialogues with U.S. non-government representatives and counterparts in China, India, and the E.U. He is on leave as University Professor at George Mason University.