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Joseph S. Broz is a Senior Fellow in the Security, Energy, and Environment (SEE) department at NORC. He brings 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, and deep subject matter expertise in the energy domain, especially in energy technology, gas and oil recovery, alternative fossil production, renewable energy and energy security. His experience also includes significant projects in homeland security, defense, and in the areas of environmental protection and remediation. Broz held four senior management and business development positions at Tenneco in the U.S. and Europe, ranging from Director of Technology and Environmental Affairs, to Executive Director of Operations and Quality, and served as Vice President of Business Development and Laboratory Director for the Titanium Metals Corporation, a NYSE-listed company (TIE) with operations in the U.S., U.K. and France Other areas of his technical expertise include non-linear PDE’s, mathematical modeling, nuclear magnetic spectroscopy, micromagnetics, and climate change.
Broz has served the public on both the national and state levels. In 1991 and 1992, during the administration of President George H.W. Bush, Broz served as a White House Fellow and as Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He is a member of the Homeland Security Standards Panel of the American National Standards Institute which supported the 9-11 Commission in its recommendations on private sector preparedness, and served as a member of the Critical Infrastructure Committee for the State of Colorado. He assisted in the completion of a Climate Strategy Action Plan for the State of Colorado under the auspices of the Colorado Governor’s Climate Change Initiative in 2007. He has worked closely with several Governors and national laboratories on renewable energy and economic development issues around energy and technology.
Broz has participated on a number of international commissions and boards regulating industrial standards. He served as a member of the TAG (Technical Advisory Group) from the U.S. to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva for the Strategic Advisory Group on Security (SAG-S), and currently serves as a Member of the Virtual Technical Advisory Group (VTAG) to the Strategic Advisory Group on Renewable Energy Standards (SAG-E). In addition to his work as an NORC Senior Fellow, Broz will continue his as a member of the Spectrum Group, and as Managing Partner with Defense Capital Advisors, LLC (DCA).
A former British-American Fellow of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1995), Broz is a member the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Swiss Physical Society (SPG). He currently holds Top Secret clearance, has published numerous technical papers, and has been awarded several U.S. and foreign patents.