Ashley Bahney

Ashley Bahney is the acting chief of staff to the Director. She is responsible for a wide variety of Director’s Office functions, including senior management team coordination, supporting the Lab director in strategic initiative development and facilitating enhanced interactions with DOE/NNSA, its labs, plants and sites and other government agencies, as well as academia and the private sector.

Previously, she served as chief of staff for Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI), where she held responsibility for enhancing coordination across the WCI Senior Leadership Team as well as the development of organizational strategies and priorities within WCI programs.

Prior to this position, she spent nine years in Global Security as an analyst, associate program leader for Counterterrorism and Foreign Nuclear Weapons Intelligence Initiative (FNWII) Tri-Lab Coordinator. Bahney also brings with her experience from working at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense.

Bahney holds an M.A. in international affairs from the University of California, San Diego, a B.A. in international relations from the University of California, Davis and a certificate in national security affairs from Texas A&M University.