ISSE Staff
William Fulkerson
Senior Fellow
Office Phone: (865) 974-9221
Email: wfulk@utk.edu
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Rice University
Bill Fulkerson’s current interests include global sustainability issues with emphasis on energy and environmental technologies and policies. Since 1994 he has chaired the DOE Laboratory Energy R&D Working Group (LERDWG), an organization of energy R&D managers from 14 DOE labs including all the national labs concerned with energy R&D.
During 1999 and 2000 LERDWG helped the Under Secretary of Energy analyze the DOE energy R&D Portfolio with respect to its adequacy for making progress on DOE strategic goals related to the environment, the economy and national security. The results of these analyses were published and used extensively in preparing the DOE budget. More recently, LERDWG has assisted DOE in the planning of the National Climate Change Technology Initiative of the Bush Administration and with drafting a strategic plan for the Clean Energy Technology Export initiative.
Bill was a member of the Energy R&D Panel of the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, and he chaired the task force on fossil energy of the Panel. The report of the Panel is "Federal Energy Research and Development for the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century," (Nov. 1997). He also participated on the National Research Council report "Energy Research at DOE: Was it Worth it?" (National Academy Press 2001). He was a member of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Academy of Sciences from 1996-2002.
Recently Bill has been involved with the Seminars on Global Emergencies held every year in Erice, Italy by the World Federation of Scientists. This has resulted in several papers on energy and terror published in the proceedings of the seminars.
Before joining ISSE, he was Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environmental Technologies at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He retired from ORNL in December, l994 after 32 years of service.
Fulkerson was trained at Rice University where he received his B. A. in 1957 and his Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering in 1962. He is a member of Sigma Xi and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.