Amos Hochstein

Amos Hochstein
Official portrait
Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser for Energy and Investment
Incumbent
Assumed office
2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Senior Advisor for Energy Security
Incumbent
Assumed office
August 10, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
United States Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs
In office
August 1, 2014 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byCarlos Pascual
Succeeded byFrancis R. Fannon (Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources)
Personal details
Born (1973-01-04) January 4, 1973 (age 51)
Jerusalem, Israel
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseJulie Rae Ringel
Children4

Amos J. Hochstein[1] (born January 4, 1973) is an American businessman, diplomat, and former lobbyist. He is a top national and economic security official in the Biden administration.[2][3] Hochstein has worked in the U.S. Congress, has testified before congressional panels[2] and has served in the Barack Obama administration under Secretaries of State Clinton and Kerry. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in 2011 and as Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs in 2013. In 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Hochstein to be the Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources but the Senate did not act on the nomination.

While at the State Department, Hochstein worked as a close advisor to Vice President Biden.[4] He served in the administration from 2011 to 2017.[5]

In March 2017, he joined Tellurian, a private Houston-based LNG company, where he served as senior vice president marketing until his departure in September 2020.[6] He serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council and U.S.-India Business Council. Hochstein is a former member of the supervisory board of Ukrainian Naftogaz, from which he resigned in October 2020[7] by writing an opinion piece[8] that highlighted the return of sabotage in the form of corrupt forces.

On August 10, 2021, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that he is appointing Hochstein as the senior advisor for energy security, and he was subsequently appointed special presidential coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security.[9][10][11] He currently also leads Biden's Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.[12]

  1. ^ "Amos J Hochstein". U.S. Department of State. August 1, 2014. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Assessing Energy Priorities in the Middle East and North Africa" (PDF). House Foreign Affairs Committee. 2014-06-11. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-09-27. Retrieved 2018-09-08.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference state.gov_biographries_2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Biden, Joe (2017-11-14). Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. Flatiron Books. ISBN 9781250171689.
  5. ^ "Kerry Officially Appoints Amos Hochstein as Energy Envoy. Oh, Hey, What's That?". Diplopundit. December 9, 2014. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  6. ^ "Trump's unkept coal promise". Politico. 30 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Exit of Hochstein from board highlights problems at Naftogaz". Kyiv Post.
  8. ^ "Amos J. Hochstein: Naftogaz faces increasing sabotage from corrupt forces". Kyiv Post. 12 October 2020.
  9. ^ @SecBlinken (10 August 2021). "I am appointing Amos Hochstein as the Senior Advisor for Energy Security. He is uniquely suited to support the deve…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ "Senior Advisor for Energy Security". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  11. ^ "US Department of State, Biographies, Amos J. Hochstein". US Department of State. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference whitehouse.gov_staff_2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).