A senior aide to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is serving in a senior role in the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council after its first executive director left last month.
Jarrod Agen, a senior Burgum staffer and a former aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence, is serving as the top staffer of President Donald Trump’s newly formed White House energy council, according to two people familiar with the staff move who were granted anonymity to speak about personnel.
The leadership of the council has been in flux and it’s unclear whether that position is long term, said one of the people familiar with the staff moves. The council, chaired by Burgum and vice-chaired by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, is tasked with centralizing the nation’s energy policies under the White House.
Blake Deeley, who previously worked at the American Clean Power Association and in the White House during Trump’s first term, is also serving on the energy council staff, those people said.
