President Obama announced Tuesday that he would nominate Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall as Deputy Energy Secretary. Currently, Ms Sherwood-Randall is the most senior officer working on nuclear proliferation and defense policy for the National Security Agency, and previously built a career in foreign policy focusing on Europe, Russia and Turkey.

Ashton B. Carter, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, said of her:

"She Has been the White House point person on the nuclear weapons complex, and it's been a complicated task because it's where the Energy Department and the Pentagon meet. She's a superb organizer, and she'll need that skill - both in the nuclear complex and in the management of the tremendous changes brought about by the new exploitation of petroleum, and its consequences."

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Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (California & Balliol 1981) nominated to be Deputy U.S. Secretary of Energy

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