Full Name
Scott Woodard
Job Title
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Energy Resources, Office of Energy Transformation
Company
U.S. Department of State
Speaker Bio
Scott Woodard currently serves in the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Transformation – the office leading the Department’s diplomacy promoting clean energy.
During his most recent overseas tour he served as Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. Following that assignment, he worked in Washington for Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire as a foreign affairs advisor. He then served as Deputy and then Acting Director in the State Department’s Office of Energy Transformation before attending the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs at Fort McNair in Washington, earning a master’s degree in strategic security studies.
He joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service in 2002 and has served in U.S. embassies and consulates in Manama, Bahrain; Vilnius, Lithuania; Chennai, India; Bern, Switzerland; and Munich, Germany, working on a wide variety of political, economic, and commercial issues. His next assignment will take him to Hamburg, Germany in the summer of 2025, where he will lead the consulate.
Scott has a master’s degree from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He speaks German, Hungarian, and some Lithuanian, Spanish, and French. He enjoys hiking, gardening, and other outdoors activities, as well as physical fitness, music, and reading. He has two college-aged children and a spouse (Erika) who also works at the State Department.
During his most recent overseas tour he served as Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. Following that assignment, he worked in Washington for Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire as a foreign affairs advisor. He then served as Deputy and then Acting Director in the State Department’s Office of Energy Transformation before attending the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs at Fort McNair in Washington, earning a master’s degree in strategic security studies.
He joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service in 2002 and has served in U.S. embassies and consulates in Manama, Bahrain; Vilnius, Lithuania; Chennai, India; Bern, Switzerland; and Munich, Germany, working on a wide variety of political, economic, and commercial issues. His next assignment will take him to Hamburg, Germany in the summer of 2025, where he will lead the consulate.
Scott has a master’s degree from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He speaks German, Hungarian, and some Lithuanian, Spanish, and French. He enjoys hiking, gardening, and other outdoors activities, as well as physical fitness, music, and reading. He has two college-aged children and a spouse (Erika) who also works at the State Department.
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