Stephen G. Burns
Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In office January 1, 2015 – January 23, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Allison Macfarlane
Succeeded by	Kristine Svinicki
Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In office November 4, 2014 – April 30, 2019
President	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	George Apostolakis
Succeeded by	Christopher T. Hanson
Personal details
Political party	Independent[1]
Alma mater	Colgate University George Washington University

Stephen G. Burns is an American lawyer and former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Burns received a bachelor's degree in 1975 from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.^{[citation needed]} He received his J.D. degree with honors in 1978 from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was an editor on the George Washington Law Review.^[2]

Burns joined the NRC as an attorney in 1978. He served as Deputy General Counsel starting in 1998 then served as General Counsel from May 2009 until April 2012. He left the NRC to serve as Head of Legal Affairs of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris from April 2012, until he rejoined the NRC in November 2014 with a term which ended on April 30, 2019. He served as the 16th chairman of NRC from January 2014 to January 2017.^[3] He was appointed as the chair of the IAEA’s International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group in May 2022.^[4]

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