William F. Martin :: Chairman :: 202.965.1169 :: wmartin@wpainc.com
William F. Martin is an energy economist who has served as Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy under President Reagan. He is also chairman of the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee and chairman of the Council on Foreign Relation’s Energy Security Group for the past ten years. In 2006, he was elected chairman of the Council of the University for Peace of the United Nations.
Martin was educated at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (BS, 1972) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM, 1974). His master’s thesis was the basis of an article he published in the Harvard Business Review (“Our Society in 1985: Business may not like it, March 1975”). Following graduation from MIT, he joined the MIT Energy Laboratory as Program Officer for the Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies. During his four years on the professional research staff of MIT, he co-authored three books, Growth and Its Implications for the Future, (Roundtable Press, 1973), Energy Supply to the Year 2000 (MIT Press, 1977) and Professional Materials for Environmental Management Education (MIT Press, 1975).
Following MIT, Martin was responsible for energy statistics for developing countries at the International Energy Agency (OECD, Paris) and was part of a UN expert group that developed the methodology for reporting United Nations energy statistics. In 1977, he was promoted to special assistant to the Executive Director of IEA, Ulf Lantzke, and served in this capacity for three years during the time of the second oil shock.
Following his four years in Paris, Martin joined the Department of State as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State. In 1981, he was transferred to the National Security Council as Director of International Economic Affairs. From l983 to l985, he was appointed Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, responsible for the coordination of the President’s international and head of state meetings. Martin also served as the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council before being confirmed by the United States Senate as United States Deputy Secretary of Energy.
Martin joined the Board of the World Resources Institute in 1998 and served as WRI’s Chairman of the Development Committee. In 1997, he was a co-author of a Trilateral Commission study, Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context. In 1992, he served as the Executive Director of the Republican Platform Committee and co-authored the Committee’s volume, The Shared Vision, Uniting our family, our country, our world (Republican National Committee, 1992).
In 2004, Martin was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations to the Council of the University for Peace. He was elected Chairman of the Council of the University for Peace at its October, 2006 meeting. In 1998, Martin co-founded the Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Program at the Prague Security Studies Program that aims to educate Czech students in national security. He is also co-founder of the Club of Prague, a group of internationally prominent scientists, businessmen and scholars devoted to the finding technological solutions and new ways of thinking to meet energy challenges in a sustainable manner. The Club was formed under the auspices of former President Vaclav Havel, Prague Mayor Pavel Bem and Foreign Minister Alexander Vondra.
William Martin Papers
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Senior Staff
Audrey Chriqui :: Chief Operating Officer :: 202.965.6154 :: achriqui@wpainc.com
Audrey Chriqui has been with Washington Policy and Analysis since 2002. In addition to the management of the company’s corporate affairs, she is the principal organizational manager of the Santa Fe Seminar for the firm. Chriqui holds a degree from Concordia University in International Business.
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Jonathan S. Gillman :: Senior Energy Analyst :: 202.965.1196 :: jgillman@wpainc.com
Jonathan Gillman has been with Washington Policy & Analysis since 2007 and specializes in international relations, international and domestic political developments and energy affairs. Along with serving WPA clientele, he has participated in domestic and international projects such as the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 2020 Project and the US Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee's (NEAC) report: Nuclear Energy: Policies and Technology for the 21st Century.
Gillman received both his Bachelors degree (Political Science) and Masters degree (Government/Security Studies) from the Johns Hopkins University.
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Takashi Akazawa :: Analyst (Nuclear) :: 202.965.1361 :: takazawa@wpainc.com
Takashi Akazawa has been with Washington Policy and Analysis since 2009 and specializes in nuclear energy policy, nuclear research and development and energy security. In addition, he has worked for the Kansai Electric Power Company in Japan and has wide range of experience in the nuclear fuel cycle. Prior to joining WPA, he worked for the reprocessing plant construction project as well as nuclear fuel management, including transportation, nuclear fuel allocation design in the core and safeguards. Akazawa holds a Masters in nuclear engineering from the Nagoya University of Japan.
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Hiroya Shimanuki :: Analyst (Economics) :: 202.965.6151 :: hshimanuki@wpainc.com
Hiroya Shimanuki has been with Washington Policy and Analysis since 2009 and specializes in energy law and policy, electric power systems, environmental policies and energy industry statistics in the U.S. and Japan. Shimanuki has nearly two decades of experience in progressively more responsible positions with the Japanese energy industry, including employment with The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan and several positions with the Tohoku Electric Power Company , a major Japanese utility company. From August 2004 through June 2007, Shimanuki was seconded to The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan as Manager of Siting and Environment Department. He researched and monitored nuclear energy policy in Japan. From July 2007 through June 2009, Shimanuki served as Chief Specialty Leader in the Plant Siting Department of Tohoku E Head Office in Japan. In this senior managerial position, he directs targeted research to study and develop methods to seek agreement among Japanese utility companies using nuclear power energy and the Japanese government on the location and citing of nuclear power plants. Shimanuki received a Bachelor of Laws degree from Doshisha University in March 1991 and completed The Management Education and Research Program for Japanese Executives at New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business in May 2001.
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Charles B. Heck:: Counselor :: 202.965.1161 ext:221:: check@wpainc.com
Charles Heck became a Counselor to Washington Policy & Analysis in 2011, bringing a wealth of experience with leading officials and private citizens in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. The primary framework for this experience has been the Trilateral Commission, a high-level, policy-oriented, non-governmental, non-partisan group launched in 1973 initially drawing together distinguished citizens from European Union countries, Japan, and the United States and Canada. At the time, the three sides of this “trilateral” commission were conceived of as the three main industrialized democratic areas of the world. A modicum of cooperation among these three areas on a wide range of issues was seen as necessary for the wider international system – a system undergoing fundamental change -- to function successfully. Through its projects and meetings the Trilateral Commission sought to move the broader debate in a cooperative direction and offer proposals for handling the central challenges presented by a changing world.
Charles Heck joined the Trilateral Commission staff in 1974 as Assistant to the Commission’s founding Director, Zbigniew Brzezinski. In 1982, Mr. Heck himself became North American Director of the Commission, serving alongside a European Director in Paris and a Japanese Director in Tokyo. Over time the European side of the Commission was enlarged as the European Union was enlarged, a process that was especially dramatic after the end of the Cold War. The initial Japanese Group has enlarged into the Asia-Pacific Group reflecting the dramatic progress of the broader region in the intervening years. The North American Group that initially included only Canadians and Americans enlarged to include Mexicans Participants from other parts of the world as well now participate in Commission meetings. The North American Chairmen under whom Mr. Heck served as North American Director included David Rockefeller (until 1991) and Paul Volcker (1991-2001). Mr. Heck stepped down as North American Director in 2001, and continues to serve the Commission as Senior Adviser.
Mr. Heck was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., magna cum laude with High Honors in History) and Yale University (M.A. in International Relations, M.Phil. in Political Science). In the years before joining the Trilateral staff, he worked for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a Teaching Associate at Yale. Among Mr. Heck’s activities since stepping down as the Trilateral Commission’s North American Director is service as Visiting Professor of Political Science and then Associate Professor of Global Perspectives and History at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois (2005-09). Mr. Heck is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, American Council on Germany, Japan Society and United Nations Association of the United States.
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