John F. Ahearne

John F. Ahearne is the director of the Ethics Program at the Sigma Xi Center, a lecturer in public policy, an adjunct professor in civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, and an adjunct scholar at Resources for the Future. His professional interests are reactor safety, energy issues, resource allocation and public policy management. Dr. Ahearne has served as commissioner and chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, system analyst for the White House Energy Office, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense. He served eleven years in the U.S. Air Force, leaving the service as a major. Dr. Ahearne chairs the National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of a wide number of councils and advisory committees, including: Executive Council on Information Management and Technology, U.S. GAO; Department of Energy Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee; National Research Council Committee to Assess Plutonium Disposition Technologies; U.S.-Russian Independent Scientific Commission on Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium; Board of Directors, Wisconsin Energy Corporation.