Ines R. Triay

Inés Ramona Triay (born January 30, 1958) is the executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the interim Dean at the College of Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Triay was appointed by President Obama as the 7th DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management and sworn into office in May 2009. She played leading role at the Office of Environment Management (EM), which is charged with the safe and complete cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research.

Born in Havana, Triay studied chemistry at the University of Miami from 1976 to 1985. She earned a B.S. degree in 1980 and then completed her Ph.D. degree in 1985. Triay was responsible for kick-starting the plan for some land at Hanford and other DOE sites to be turned into clean energy parks as environmental cleanup is completed. On March 29, 2018, Anne Marie White was sworn as Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management at the U.S. Department of Energy. In June 2019, William "Ike" White joined as an acting assistant secretary for the Office of Environmental Management