John Juskie is NNSA’s Associate Administrator for Emergency Management, an office he has led since February 2022. He is responsible for the Department of Energy’s Emergency Management Enterprise, Continuity Programs, and complex-wide Emergency Operations support.

Previous to this position, Mr. Juskie had served the Deputy Associate Administrator for Emergency Operations and as the Acting Associate Administrator.

Mr. Juskie has extensive emergency management experience, working in operational and policy roles at multiple levels, and serving customers ranging from local communities to the White House.

He joined NNSA from the Department of the Interior where he was the acting Director in the Office of Emergency Management. In that role he was responsible for advancing preparedness and response policy, planning, exercise, and implementation activities for the ten bureaus under the Department’s umbrella.

Previously, Mr. Juskie served in several leadership roles within the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) related to emergency management operations, and policy and doctrine development. He served in the White House as the FEMA Liaison to the National Security Council staff during the national response to Hurricane Sandy, where he provided expert advice in the application of the laws, policies, doctrine, and regulations pertinent to disaster planning and operations.

Before joining FEMA, Mr. Juskie was a meteorologist with National Weather Service, working in several locations stretching from the Upper Midwest to the West Coast.

Mr. Juskie has a Bachelor of Science in meteorology from Western Illinois University and studied aeronautical engineering at Parks College of St. Louis University.