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Kornze, Beaudreau named to new posts
Petroleum News
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said in statements Nov. 7 that Neil Kornze will be nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management, and Tommy Beaudreau to become assistant secretary for policy, management and budget.
Both positions require confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
Kornze has led BLM since March 1 as principal deputy director; prior to that he served as BLM’s acting deputy director for policy and programs. He joined the agency in early 2011 as a senior advisor to the director.
“Neil has helped implement forward-looking reforms at the BLM to promote energy development in areas of minimal conflict, drive landscape-level planning efforts, and dramatically expand the agency’s use of technology to speed up the process for energy permitting,” Jewell said, adding that he “has been a key player in many of the nation’s major natural resource policy issues” for more than a decade.
Before joining BLM, Kornze was a senior policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Kornze was raised in Elko, Nev., by a family with a long history in mining; he has a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a degree in politics from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.
Beaudreau Beaudreau currently leads the office of the assistant secretary for Land and Minerals Management and is director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management at Interior.
In his new position Beaudreau would oversee a broad portfolio of policy and administrative functions that support Interior and its workforce, including budget, law enforcement and security management, human resources and procurement.
“Tommy’s legal background, policy expertise, and extensive managerial experience with complex natural resource issues will be an invaluable asset as we carry out our vital and diverse missions in unprecedented fiscal and budgetary times,” Jewell said.
The assistant secretary for PMB is Interior’s chief financial officer and chief human capital officer, as well as providing policy leadership on the Arctic, international affairs and initiatives on land conservation, sustainability, diversity, and youth engagement and employment.
Beaudreau has been head of Land and Minerals Management since January. He joined Interior in June 2010 to help develop and lead aggressive reforms of offshore energy management and oversight, including reorganization of the former Minerals Management Service.
Prior to joining the administration Beaudreau was a partner in the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson LLP. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Georgetown University Law Center.
If confirmed by the Senate Beaudreau would replace Rhea Suh, nominated by President Obama as Interior’s assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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