Faculty Associate - Research

Energy Academic Group

Phone: (831) 566-0094

Email: kirk.waltz@nps.edu

Kirk Waltz is Faculty Associate-Research in the Energy Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Kirk is a licensed environmental engineer with 15 plus years of experience as an environmental consultant and field engineer in commercial maritime, and across the value chain of the oil and gas industry from upstream to disposal. Kirk’s prior role to coming onboard NPS was leading business development for American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) focused on maritime future fuels and alternative energy R&D, and novel distributed energy technology commercialization. Kirk has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo and has an MBA from Rice University. His research focuses on the leveraging of whole-of-government approaches and the commercial maritime nexus to advancing energy security and operational energy supply chains resilience.

Operational energy resilience, shore-based Infrastructure modernization, energy diplomacy and enforcement, and strategic distributed energy innovation and technology acceleration.