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 energy transitions in emerging markets, clean energy supply chains and critical materials, oil and gas operational emissions, and emerging clean energy technologies.

William is a co-author of the reports Building a Biofuels Industry in Africa and Alternative Battery Chemistries and Diversifying Clean Energy Supply Chains. He has been featured on NPR, and quoted in The Washington Examiner and Voice of America.

William is active in planning and executing programming in Washington, D.C. as well as internationally at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) and the Atlantic Council’s annual Global Energy Forum.

William served previously for the US Department of State at a Regional Environment, Science & Technology, and Health Office; 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.