David Huizenga

Affiliation

US DOE EM

Biography

David G. Huizenga serves as the Senior Advisor for Environmental Management (EM). In this capacity, he is responsible for the management and oversight of the world’s largest environmental remediation program. Huizenga returned to EM on July 20, 2011, when President Obama designated him as the Acting Assistant Secretary for EM. Since then, Huizenga has reorganized EM to provide more effective assistance from EM Headquarters to the cleanup activities that are executed in the field at EM sites across the nation. Under Huizenga’s leadership, EM has also commenced a major replanning initiative to update the EM baseline and prioritize cleanup activities based upon relative risk within the funding constraints