Allison Bennett Irion
Director, Supply Chain and Critical Materials Research and Program Lead
Biography
Allison Bennett Irion serves as Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Argonne’s Advanced Energy Technologies (AET) directorate. In this role, she works to strengthen AET’s scientific reputation, leads strategic program planning, and develops a shared vision for creating value across scientific disciplines and program areas.
Allison brings extensive experience in strategic program development and in coordinating cross-disciplinary analytical and experimental capabilities across Argonne. She has more than 20 years of experience within the U.S. Department of Energy complex, including work as a systems engineer supporting national security sponsors. Her career includes assignments in Washington, D.C., and London, as well as a decade at Sandia National Laboratories.
Allison is a DOE Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Fellow (2022-2024) and Atlantic Council Veterans Advanced Energy Fellow (2021-2022). She is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Allison serves as an officer in both the U.S. Navy Reserve and the U.S. Merchant Marine. She was elected to the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) Board of Directors for a 2024–2027 term, helping represent more than 100,000 supply chain professionals in over 100 countries.