Mr. Joseph Giove currently serves as the Director of Business Operations for the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Coal. In this capacity, Mr. Giove leads the Coal Office’s State and Tribal Outreach efforts. Mr. Giove was previously the Director of the Division of CCS Demonstrations which was responsible for the management and oversight of the $3.4 billion dollar program to build the next generation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) power and industrial facilities as part of the 2009 ARRA Stimulus law.

Mr. Giove has represented the United States Government at dozens of bilateral/multilateral meetings and has spoken at over 35 international conferences in 20 countries, and countless domestic meetings and conferences throughout the United States. Mr. Giove currently represents DOE as its official member of the NARUC Staff Sub-Committee on Clean Coal (2010-present), and is a Deputy Designated Federal Officer for the National Coal Council (NCC.)

Mr. Giove holds a BS from Lee University, an MS from the University of Maryland University College, and was a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School. Mr. Giove has twice been selected as the Department of Energy’s Procurement Director of the Year (2017, 2019).