Bart Marcois is a career diplomat with deep and broad experience in highly regulated economic sectors. After the Foreign Service he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy. During the first Trump Administration he led a team at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to achieve a key White House policy, streamlining the permitting process for very large infrastructure projects.

He has worked in the European defense and energy sectors, opening markets for American products and systems. As an official in the Republican Party of Virginia, he has worked on each of President Trump’s campaigns since 2016.