Brian DaRin is TSG’s Senior Advisor for Energy, Infrastructure and Critical Minerals. Brian has decades of international affairs, trade, and business experience. He comes to TSG following a distinguished career as a Foreign Service officer in the Department of State. At State and USAID, he served as an Economic Officer in official United States Missions To Japan, China, Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Belize, and Mongolia. He is also currently affiliated with the Energy Futures Initiative (EFI), a non-profit organization focused on accelerating technologies and developing policies to promote a transition to clean energy. At EFI he is the Deputy Director of Global Programs, and his publications include A Global Hydrogen Future, The Future of Natural Gas in a Low-Carbon World, and Global Energy Supply Chains, among others.

At the U.S. Consulate General to Osaka-Kobe, Brian was the Political-Economic Section Chief and advised senior U.S. officials on Japan’s desire for gas imports and developments in Japan’s energy sector, post the March 2011 triple disaster. Brian established the first official U.S. commercial trade linkage office in Mongolia and drafted the first Country Commercial Guide. Domestically, Brian directed the approval of billions of dollars in critical energy infrastructure as head of the Presidential permitting delegation for cross border pipelines and other energy infrastructure. At State, he worked with critical materials and national grid exercises at the National Security Council; served as Co-Chair of the Defense Logistic Agency’s Strategic Materials Committee; and, served on a National Petroleum Council Committee on energy infrastructure permitting. He has also worked on international monetary issues with the IMF.

Brian has his Bachelor of Arts in English and Fine Arts with a minor in Economics from the Virginia Military Institute. He also has an MBA in International Management with a focus in International Finance and Chinese language from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Brian speaks Mongolian, Japanese, Mandarin, French, and is studying Cantonese.

Brian lives in Northern Virginia with his family.