Candidates announced for 2025 ANS leadership positions
As the U.S. election season finally comes to an end, the annual American Nuclear Society election season is right around the corner. Seventeen candidates have been nominated for the positions of ANS vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and six positions on the board of directors (four U.S. directors, one non-U.S. director, and one student director). Ballots will be sent via email on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, and must be submitted by 1:00 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
The candidates nominated for ANS leadership positions are introduced below. Terms will begin in June 2025, following the ANS Annual Conference. The new vice president/president-elect will succeed current ANS vice president/president-elect Hash Hashemian when he assumes the position of ANS president. The treasurer position is a two-year term. Harsh S. Desai currently serves as ANS treasurer, and his first term will come to an end this June. He has the opportunity to serve for another two-year term if elected. ANS members elected to the Board of Directors serve three-year terms, also beginning in June. The current U.S. directors with terms expiring next June are Jamie Baalis Coble, Shaheen Azim Dewji, Christina Leggett, Kenneth (Ken) Petersen, Daniel (Dan) Stout, and Kathryn (Katy) Worrell. The term of Carlos Jose Gho, ANS’s non-U.S. director, also ends in June.
And the candidates are . . .
Vice president/president-elect:
Griffith
Andrew (Andy) Griffith, an ANS member since 2013, is a nuclear energy research leader at Battelle and executive director of the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center. In 2022, Griffith was the acting assistant secretary for nuclear energy at the Department of Energy and has served in multiple deputy assistant secretary roles over the last decade.
Peters
Mark T. Peters, an ANS member since 2007, is the CEO of MITRE, a nonprofit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers. Peters previously was the executive vice president for national laboratory management and operations at Battelle. Prior to that he was the director of Idaho National Laboratory for five years.
Treasurer:
Desai
Harsh S. Desai, an ANS member since 2011 and the current ANS treasurer, is the chief commercialization officer at Zeno Power. Desai previously held roles at the Nuclear Energy Institute and the DOE, and he was the 2014 ANS Congressional Fellow.
Ezold
Julie G. Ezold, an ANS member since 1988, is a technical advisor at the DOE’s office of science isotope R&D and production program out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She previously has held roles as a waste management/environmental restoration engineer and a nuclear criticality safety engineer. Ezold just completed a three-year term on the ANS Board of Directors this past June.
Board of Directors
U.S. directors:
Todd Allen,
(ANS member since 1991) professor at University of Michigan
Kostas Dovas,
(ANS member since 2013) vice president of training at Constellation
Lin-Wen Hu,
(ANS member since 1991) senior research scientist at MIT nuclear reactor laboratory
John Kotek,
(ANS member since 2017) senior vice president of policy and public affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute
Kathryn (Kathy) McCarthy,
(ANS member since 1979) director of the U.S. ITER project at ORNL
W. David (Dave) Pointer,
(ANS member since 1996) director of nuclear engineering and fuel cycle division at ORNL
Elizabeth Sooby,
(ANS member since 2018) associate professor at the University of Texas–San Antonio
Grace Stanke,
(ANS member since 2019) nuclear fuels engineer at Constellation
Bradley Williams,
(ANS member since 2010) senior policy advisor at Idaho National Laboratory
Non-U.S. director:
Deborah A. Hill,
(ANS member since 2004) criticality technical leader, senior fellow in criticality safety, and head of fellowship at the U.K. National Nuclear Laboratory
Sama Bilbao y León,
(ANS member since 1995) director general of the World Nuclear Association
Student directors:
Julia Marshall,
(ANS member since 2021) graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
John Mobley IV,
(ANS member since 2019) graduate student at the University of Michigan.
As we get closer to the election, Nuclear News will publish statements from all of the candidates.
