Linda Trocki

Board Member

Dr. Linda Trocki has over twenty-five years of experience in research and development, technology assessment, and general management. Her technical areas of expertise are energy and environmental technology systems, natural resources, and technology policy.

Dr. Trocki is a Principal Vice President in Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) and is a Bechtel Fellow. She is currently Manager of R&D and Technology Coordination for Bechtel. In this position, she is responsible to the Manager of Engineering and Technology for coordinating the technology strategies of Bechtel's global business units. She also manages BNI's $3 million-per-year R&D program at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, the Advanced Simulation Group in R&D, and various advanced technology efforts for the federal government.

From 2000 through mid-2001, she served Bechtel BWXT Idaho as Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning and Technology Commercialization at the Department of Energy's Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. During 1999, she was Deputy General Manager for Services at Bechtel Nevada. Dr. Trocki led Bechtel Corporation's research and development group, serving as Vice President in Bechtel National, Inc. from 1996 through 1998. She spent much of her career between 1976 and 1996 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she specialized in systems studies and assessment of energy and environmental technologies. In 1994-5, she worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Energy in Washington, DC, advising him on the R&D portfolio. The following year, on loan from Los Alamos, Dr. Trocki assisted the President of Chevron's upstream R&D company with strategy, and the creation of a cooperative R&D program with other major oil companies. Early in her professional career, the International Atomic Energy Agency employed her for two years.

Dr. Trocki graduated with a BS degree in geology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. She obtained her MS in geochemistry in 1983 and her Ph.D. in Mineral Economics in 1985, both from Penn State.

She serves on many advisory committees and boards, has published a number of papers and organized professional conferences. Current board membership includes National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Chemistry and Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Savannah River Technology Company; the West Coast Board of the International Institute of Education; the CEO Coalition to Advance Sustainable Technology; the American Geological Institute; and the Colorado Energy Sciences Center. She is a former member of the National Coal Council. She represents Bechtel on the Business Roundtable's Energy and Environment working group, and she chaired their Technology Summit on Climate Change held in August 2000 at the National Academy of Engineering.