Primary Job Title Member of the Board of Directors Primary Organization Terrestrial Energy
Location Oakville, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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David Hill is a nuclear physicist and MBA with 30 years of career experience in nuclear research and in managing large nuclear laboratories in the US.
David has held senior executive management positions in the foremost national nuclear laboratories in the USA from 1984 to 2012, specifically Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
From 2005 to 2012, David was Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Most recently, David has been an independent contractor and provided consulting services to companies in the nuclear industry, including Babcock & Wilcox, the world’s largest provider of nuclear engineering, procurement and construction services.
Throughout his career, David has gained experience in all aspects of nuclear energy, domestically and internationally. He has managed major projects including at the experimental fast reactor at INL, and the restructuring of ANL. He has at all times, been responsible for hundreds of staff, and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual budgetary research and development expenditures.
David received his MSc (first class) and his PhD in mathematical physics from the Imperial College, London University. He further received his Honors Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.




