Uniting DOE Alumni to power America’s future

Launching the DOE Alumni Network

The DOE Alumni Network is a new initiative created to unite former U.S. Department of Energy staff in a collaborative community. Together, we champion an ambitious science and technology agenda to help the United States prosper now and in the future. The DOE Alumni Network facilitates non-partisan policy engagement in support of DOE’s mission, preserves and shares institutional knowledge, and supports career development and networking opportunities for its members.

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About the DOE Alumni Network

The DOE Alumni Network unites former DOE staff in a collaborative community that champions a transformational science and technology agenda for the United States by facilitating non-partisan policy engagement, preserving and sharing institutional knowledge, and supporting career development and networking opportunities for its members.

We believe the unique expertise and institutional knowledge of DOE alumni are critical resources. The network connects former staff with each other and with external stakeholders to:

  • Preserve and share institutional knowledge and expertise to help fortify the DOE's mission.

  • Facilitate career development and networking opportunities.

  • Provide a platform for alumni to contribute to high-stakes policy discussions and help shape an ambitious future for clean energy, science, nuclear security, and nuclear clean-up.

  • Develop a vision for a DOE that addresses all of our future energy challenges.

The DOE Alumni Network team is administratively housed at the Environmental Protection Network (EPN).

The DOE Alumni Network is composed of hundreds of volunteers and is supported by a small team of staff

Tarak Shah
Interim Executive Director

Kathleen Hogan
Advisory Board Member

Corey Hinderstein
Advisory Board Member

  • Interim Executive Director

    Tarak Shah is the Interim Executive Director of the Department of Energy Alumni Network. 

    Shah served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Energy from 2021-2022. From 2017-2021, Tarak worked for a variety of advocacy organizations that championed DOE’s role in advancing America’s energy future.

    From 2014-2017, he served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Science and Energy at DOE. Earlier in his career, Tarak served at the Pentagon spearheading efforts to optimize the U.S. military's energy use and at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

  • Advisory Board Member

    Kathleen Hogan is a member of the Department of Energy Alumni Network Advisory Board and most recently served as DOE’s Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Infrastructure. Prior positions include the Acting Under Secretary for Science and Energy where she helped the Agency launch its Energy Earthshot program and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency.  

    Earlier, in her career, she led an EPA division for more than ten years in the development and implementation of a suite of clean energy policies and programs to cost-effectively address climate change. 

    Kathleen has served under six different Presidential administrations and has been recognized throughout her career for her leadership in public service, most recently with Presidential Rank Awards (2015, 2024), The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals Career Achievement Award (2016), and a Secretary of Energy Exceptional Service Award (2018).

  • Advisory Board Member

    Corey Hinderstein is a member of the Department of Energy Alumni Network Advisory Board. Corey is also vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing the Technology and International Affairs Program, the Nuclear Policy Program, and the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program. She works primarily on nuclear strategy, security, and nonproliferation issues; and emerging and disruptive technology of strategic consequence.

    Hinderstein is a past president and fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management and served on the board of directors for the World Institute for Nuclear Security. She has also served in advisory capacities for multiple U.S. national laboratories.

    Prior to joining Carnegie, she was the acting principal deputy administrator for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration and the deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation. Before her confirmation by the Senate in 2021, Hinderstein was a vice president at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Corey also served at DOE from 2017-2019.

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