William Tobin is an assistant director at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, where he focuses on international energy and climate policy.

William’s research efforts center on the United States’ economic and technological competitiveness globally in the rapidly changing energy sector. He focuses on energy transitions in emerging markets, US-China competition, trade and industrial policy, clean energy supply chains, and critical technologies. He is knowledgeable on the energy sector broadly in Latin America, and the Middle East.

He has been featured on NPR, and quoted in Vox, Voice of America, Reforma, Diálogo Americas, The Washington Examiner, El Economista, and multiple trade press outlets.

William served previously for the US Department of State and for two members of the US House of Representatives.

He is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in biology.