THE HONORABLE DAVID SANDALOW Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs U.S. Department of Energy

David Sandalow is Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy.  He was most recently a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.  He is the editor of Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (Brookings Press, 2009), author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and has written widely on energy and environmental policy.  Previously, Sandalow served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment & Science; Senior Director for Environmental Affairs, National Security Council; Associate Director for the Global Environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Executive Vice President, World Wildlife Fund-US.  Sandalow is a graduate of Yale College (BA Philosophy) and the University of Michigan Law School (JD).