Chairman and CEO
PFC Energy
Mr. J. Robinson West is Chairman of the Board, Founder and CEO of PFC Energy. Before founding PFC Energy in 1984, West served in the Reagan Administration as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Budget and Administration (1981-1983), with responsibility for U.S. offshore oil policy. Prior to that, he served in the Ford Administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Economic Affairs (1976-1977) and on the White House Staff (1974-1976). In 2003 and again in 2008 he was nominated by the President to be a Director of the United States Institute of Peace, and the nomination was confirmed by the Senate. In 2004 he was elected Chairman of the USIP Board.
