President and Chief Executive Officer

Prior to joining NEI in 2005, Adm. Bowman served for more than 38 years in the U.S. Navy. He served as director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, the third successor to Adm. Hyman G. Rickover in that command, and was concurrently deputy administrator-Naval Reactors in the National Nuclear Security Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy. In these dual positions, he was responsible for the operations of 103 reactors aboard the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines, four training sites, and two DOE laboratories. Adm. Bowman also served as the Chief of Naval Personnel.

He graduated from Duke University in 1966 and, in 2003, received an honorary doctor of human letters degree from the university. He completed a dual master’s program in nuclear engineering and ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973 and was elected to the Society of Sigma Xi. Adm. Bowman serves on the MIT Nuclear Engineering Visiting Committee.

Adm. Bowman served on the BP Independent Safety Review Board for BP refineries. He serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100 and the boards of directors of the National Energy Foundation, U.S. Energy Association, American Council for Capital Formation and the Armed Services YMCA of the United States of America. He also is a member of the Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds Board and the BP America Board of Advisers.

He is an ex officio director of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Electric Power Research Institute and Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, and is a member of the American Nuclear Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Management Committee of the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth, Women in Nuclear and the World Nuclear Association’s Council of Advisors.

In 2006, Adm. Bowman was made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.