Duane Verner is the Director of Global Energy Security within the Decision and Infrastructure Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Areas of focus include protecting critical energy infrastructure and advancing AI-driven national security. He leads Argonne’s support to the United States Department of Energy Office of International Affairs and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to develop and implement projects on the protection of critical energy networks and energy related aspects of disaster risk reduction in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.  

Duane regularly contributes to the international resilience and security research community through presentations, publications, and trans-Atlantic collaboration, including serving as a Civil Expert within NATO’s Energy Planning Group, participating in the OECD High Level Risk Forum, and serving as an active member of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid COE). He has provided project management and methodology development support to the United States Department of Homeland Security Regional Resiliency Assessment Program since its inception in 2009. Prior to his position with Argonne, he was a project manager for a private sector engineering firm in New York City, working in the energy, transportation, and homeland security sectors.

He is a certified planner and holds an MA in Urban Planning.