Mr. Isaacs is a strategic advisor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation. Previously, he was the lead advisor to the U.S. Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future formed at the request of President Obama. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Nuclear and Radiation Studies. Among the organizations that Mr. Isaacs recently advised are the U.S. Department of Energy, the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization, the Japanese Nuclear Waste Management Program, and the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute. Mr. Isaacs began his career with extended tenures at the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy. Mr. Isaacs works on issues at the intersection of nuclear power, national security, waste management, and public trust and confidence. He received degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and engineering and applied physics from Harvard University.