Associate Professor of Engineering
Senior Fellow, Benson-Bertsch Center for International Trade and Security
David Gattie is an Associate Professor of Engineering in the University of Georgia’s College of Engineering, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering and a Senior Fellow in the University of Georgia’s (UGA) Benson-Bertsch Center for International Trade and Security and School of Public & International Affairs. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. from UGA and has 14 years of private industry experience as an energy services engineer and environmental engineer. David conducts research in the area of energy policy and integrated energy resource planning for the power sector and leads UGA’s Energy Security Studies Program (ESSP)—a collaboration between UGA’s College of Engineering and School of Public & International Affairs and administered through UGA’s Center for International Trade & Security. Research at ESSP is focused on the U.S. national security implications of energy and energy technologies within the challenges of 21st century great power competition. David also has provided testimony before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on energy, climate and nuclear power policy, various state legislative bodies and the Georgia Public Service Commission.
