Jeff Harper

As Vice President for Business Development at X-energy, Jeff Harper directs long-term business plans with a specific focus on customers, partners and markets. He has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial, general management, and nuclear power industry experience across the globe, including in Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Prior to joining X-energy, Jeff worked at the Westinghouse Advanced Reactors Program, where he was an international licensing manager and a commercial/business development program leader, responsible for commercial development of the PBMR High Temperature Gas Reactor project and its Small Modular Light Water Nuclear Reactor program. Prior to Westinghouse, Jeff was Founder and CEO for Turner, Harper & Associates, a global engineering firm serving a client list that included the Department of Energy, the Czech Republic, CEZ Group, South Africa, Eskom, Lockheed-Martin, and Bechtel Jacobs. He also served as a vendor inspector for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, where he led more than 30 management, technical, and quality assurance inspections and audits of nuclear power plants and vendors.

Jeff is Vice Chairman, of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee; serves on the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Suppliers Advisory Committee and Trade Advocacy Subcommittee; the EU-U.S. SMR Steering Committee; and is a frequent speaker on advanced nuclear. He received a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.