Senate staffer Rory Stanley on Monday will become chief of staff of the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, the agency confirmed Thursday.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa.) announced Stanley’s departure from Congress Thursday on the Senate floor during debate on the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.
Stanley joined the staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in 2015, about eight-and-a-half years ago, as its nuclear policy expert, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Stanley began working in the Senate in 2013 as an aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.). He has a PhD in global energy policy from Euclid University, an African university that offers online courses, a Master’s degree in defense and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College, a Master in nonproliferation studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California, and a Bachelor’s degree in international studies and political science from the University of Washington in Washington state, from which he graduated in 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile.
