Reynolds, Andy

BIOGRAPHY

Andy Reynolds
Deputy Science and Technology Adviser
Office of the Science and Technology Adviser

Mr. Reynolds, a career civil servant, is Deputy Adviser and chief of staff in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (STAS). He helped establish the office in September 2000 with the first S&T Adviser, Dr. Norman Neureiter, who was succeeded by Dr. George Atkinson in September 2003.

Reynolds began his federal career at the Department of Energy in 1975, where he worked in energy forecasting, nonproliferation, and bilateral and multilateral energy R&D cooperation. From 1983-86 he served as DOE Representative in Western Europe as Attaché for Energy Affairs in the U.S. Mission to the OECD in Paris. Reynolds joined the State Department in 1990 as Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs where he helped facilitate bilateral and multilateral cooperation in S&T fields with countries in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, the former republics of the Soviet Union, India, Indonesia, and Japan. He was decorated for leading delegations in 1992-93 to initiate cooperation with the three Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, and for negotiating and concluding cooperative S&T with all six nations. From 1994-96 Mr. Reynolds led efforts to address S&T and environmental issues in support of the Cooperative Commission co-chaired by Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. In October 1996 he received a Limited Foreign Service Appointment to serve as Counselor for Environment, Science and Technology at the U.S. Embassy in Rome. As Counselor, Reynolds was responsible for bilateral and related EU relations in basic S&T research, technology policy, export controls, IPR protection, energy, space, health, oceans and fisheries, and environment and sustainable development issues. He received a Superior Honor Award for his performance.

As an undergraduate Mr. Reynolds combined a pre-medical curriculum with international relations at the University of Virginia, including related programs at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He completed graduate work in energy technology management at George Washington University, with an emphasis on electric power systems. Reynolds is currently enrolled at the Joint Military Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency, in pursuit of an MS in strategic intelligence.

Mr. Reynolds speaks and reads Italian, Spanish, French, and some German. He is married and has a daughter.

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