Andrew Richards, chief of staff for the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, is leaving the agency after 10 years for a private-sector job, he told colleagues Monday.
Richards’ last day was to be Tuesday, he said in an email viewed Tuesday by Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. He did not identify his new employer in the email.
A new chief of staff hadn’t been designated as of Tuesday, but a deputy chief should join the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) in the coming weeks and a replacement should be coming “soon,” Richards said.
Richards joined DOE in 2011 as a systems analyst. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland.
NE oversees the Energy Department’s nuclear science and nuclear energy programs.