Dr. EHSAN KHAN
Senior Technical Advisor
Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs
SC-2/Forrestal Building, Room 3H-051
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585-1290

Email: ehsan.khan@science.doe.gov
Phone: 202-586-4785
Fax: 202-586-7719
Primary work location: Washington, DC

Ehsan Khan joined the Office of the Deputy for Science Programs in December 2007, as a Senior Technical Advisor.  Prior to that, he was in the Office of Planning and Analysis, where he served in the role of Chief Scientist and worked on a number of Interagency Task Force activities.  He has represented the Office of Science and the DOE on several White House National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) groups, including those on Critical Energy Technology Needs, Space and Aerospace Policy, and Research and Development Plans. He was detailed part-time to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2003 through the present.  From 1994 to 1995, he worked on the Technology Reinvestment Project, also on a part-time detail to the Department of Defense. Ehsan joined the DOE Office of Space in 1992 as a Nuclear Engineer and moved to the Office of Planning and Analysis in the Office of Energy Research (now the Office of Science) in 1993.  He came to DOE from the BDM International Corporation, a Defense and Intelligence Company, where he was a Vice President from 1987 until 1992.  While at BDM, Ehsan worked on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Program and the Space Station Program, among other activities.  Ehsan earned a doctorate from MIT (on a DOE-funded nuclear research program) followed by postdoctoral work in the nuclear engineering department.  He has a master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.  From 1978 to 1987, he worked at the Battelle Pacific National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, and in 1983, he was detailed from there to DOE headquarters where he worked on nuclear aspects of the SDI Program.  Prior to his graduate studies at MIT, Ehsan worked in the nuclear energy industry for several years.  He has authored over a hundred technical papers and reports.  His past work includes alternative energy technologies, energy security and climate change, geo-engineering, and nuclear reactor design with applications to civilian and military needs.