Biography of Marty Schoenbauer
U.S. Embassy Beijing China
Martin (Marty) J. Schoenbauer
Executive Director, Department of Energy Office
Marty Schoenbauer assumed the Executive Directorship of the DOE China Office at the U.S. Embassy to the People’s Republic of China on March 1, 2009. The DOE China Office serves all DOE Program Offices and interfaces with China Government and industry officials as well as other U.S. Agencies at the Embassy.
He most recently served as the Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). In that capacity Mr. Schoenbauer assisted the Deputy Administrator (DA) for Defense Programs in directing the Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP) and acted as the DA for most of 2007 while the Assistant Secretary position was vacated. The SSP is responsible for maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. The NNSA’s nuclear weapons complex includes three national research laboratories, the Nevada Test Site, and four production plants, which employs over 25,000 people around the country. This approximately $5.2 billion program encompasses operations associated with designing, assessing, maintaining, refurbishing, and dismantling the nuclear weapons stockpile.
He has over 30 years of government service in leadership positions and had been assigned to Defense Programs since July 1993. He began his DOE career as the Weapons Dismantlement Program Manager and held various team leader positions through the 1990s. He assumed the position of Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile in May 2000, and in May 2001, he was appointed a member of the Senior Executive Service and assumed the duties as Director, Office of Nuclear Weapons Surety and Quality. In July 2002, he assumed the position of Director, Office of Nuclear Weapons Stockpile. In these roles, Mr. Schoenbauer worked closely with the production sites and the national laboratories to implement production activities in the Stockpile Stewardship Program, oversaw the Transportation Safeguards System, directed the Enhanced Surveillance program, and led Nuclear Explosive and Quality Control functions and Defense Programs activities associated with arms control treaty development.
In 2004 he assumed the Deputy Assistant Secretary role as the lead for Defense Programs, Office of Military Applications. In this role he also served as the Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council Standing and Safety Committee and a co-chair of the Stockpile Transformation Coordinating Committee with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Mr. Schoenbauer graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 with a BS and completed his MBA at George Washington University in 1982. He is married to Jan Schoenbauer. The Schoenbauers have two boys, Peter and Joseph, who have graduated from college and reside in Washington DC.