Frank Verrastro

Frank Verrastro is director and senior fellow in the CSIS Energy
Program. He has extensive energy experience, having spent 25 years in
energy policy and project management positions in the U.S. government
and the private sector. His government service includes staff positions
in the White House (Energy Policy and Planning Staff) and the
Departments of Interior (Oil and Gas Office) and Energy (Domestic
Policy and International Affairs Office), including serving as director
of the Office of Producing Nations and deputy assistant secretary for
international energy resources. In the private sector, Mr. Verrastro
has served as director of refinery policy and crude oil planning for
TOSCO (formerly the nation's largest independent refiner) and more
recently as senior vice president for Pennzoil. At Pennzoil, he was
responsible for the company's government-relations activity, both
domestic and international. He also served on the company's
international risk assessment and negotiations teams, as well as on the
management and operating committees and its Environmental Safety and
Health Leadership Council. Prior to joining CSIS in the fall of 2003,
he served as senior policy adviser at the law firm of Vinson &
Elkins, working with the firm's task force on Iraq reconstruction.
He
is an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs
at George Washington University. He has also lectured at Harvard,
American University, the University of Maryland, Georgetown University,
National Defense University, and the Foreign Service Institute. He has
been a frequent presenter on energy policy panels at SAIS/Johns Hopkins
University, the Brookings Institution, Meridian House International,
and the National Press Club, and regularly appears on NPR, C-SPAN,
MSNBC and CNN as an energy commentator.