Allen Schaeffer
Executive Director,
Diesel Technology Forum
Allen
Schaeffer is Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum, the nation’s
leading advocate for clean diesel technology; a position he has served since October
2000.
Frequently
quoted in national news media such as the New York Times, CNN, USAToday, CBS Radio, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Fox
News, Schaeffer also has testified before both houses of the US Congress and
many state legislatures on a variety of matters affecting diesel engines.
From
1987 through 2000, he served as Vice President of Environmental Policy at the
American Trucking Associations (ATA), where he represented the industry in
legislative and regulatory policy matters at the national level and was
principal advisor to 60 affiliates at the state and regional level.
Schaeffer
was also appointed to serve on EPA’s Federal Advisory Committee Subcommittee on
Ozone, Particulate Matter and Regional Haze in 1997.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the