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Commissioner Stephen G. Burns
The Honorable Stephen G. Burns was
sworn in as a Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on
November 5, 2014, to a term ending June 30, 2019.
He served as the 16th Chairman of the NRC from Jan. 1, 2015, through
Jan. 23, 2017. As a Commissioner, he continues to be engaged in the work
of the agency, and its safety and security mission.
Commissioner
Burns has had a distinguished career as an attorney both within the NRC
and internationally. Before returning to the NRC, he was the Head of
Legal Affairs of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. In that position, which
he held since April 2012, Commissioner Burns provided legal advice and
support to NEA management, carried out the legal education and
publications program of the NEA, and provided advice and secretariat
services to the Nuclear Law Committee and to the Contracting Parties to
the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear
Energy.
Commissioner
Burns joined the NRC as an attorney in 1978. Prior to assuming his post
at the NEA, he served as General Counsel of the NRC from May 2009 until
April 2012 after having served as the NRC's Deputy General Counsel from
1998. He also served as Executive Assistant to former NRC Chairman
Kenneth M. Carr.
Commissioner
Burns received a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in 1975 from
Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. He received his law degree with
honors in 1978 from the George Washington University in Washington,
D.C., where he was an editor on the George Washington Law Review.
Commissioner
Burns received the NRC's Distinguished Service Award in 2001 and the
Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award in 1998 and 2008.
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