Dr. Ming Zhu - Acting Budget Director, Office of Environmental Management U.S. Department of Energy
Dr. Ming Zhu recently served as the Acting Budget Director for the Office of Environmental Management within the Department of Energy, responsible for the formulation, justification, and execution of a $6 billion/year budget that supports 1,400 Federal and 20,000 contactor employees on environmental cleanup of the nation’s nuclear legacy. Previously he served as the DOE Senior Site Program Manager for Richland Operations at the Hanford Site -- the world’s largest legacy waste site. He also established the DOE Advanced Scientific Simulation for Environmental Management initiative and served as its founding Program Manager. He has also led technical groups for self-regulating DOE’s on-site disposal facilities and interagency steering committees on performance and risk assessments, and advised the International Atomic Energy Agency on related topics.
In 2012 he served as Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency Director on strategic planning of the Department of Homeland Security enterprise R&D activities. Prior to joining DOE headquarters in 2009, he directed science and licensing work of national labs and leading engineering firms on the construction of the nation’s final geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada; and managed large-scale environmental remediation projects for multi-national engineering corporations. He received the DOE Secretary’ Achievement Award in 2012. Ming Zhu earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and completed a Senior Executive Service Development Program and the Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership for Democratic Society Program.
He is a registered civil engineer in California and a certified Professional Management Professional, and was elected Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers. In his spare time, he serves the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders community as the President of the DOE Asian American Pacific Islander Network, and as the AAGEN Co-Chair for Programs and Education.