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Published on: 5/24/2000
Last Visited: 11/10/2000
Kelly S. Coyner, Research and Special Programs Administrator, today announced the appointment of Robert (Bob) A. McGuire as the associate administrator for the Office of Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Safety, and Stacey L. Gerard as the associate administrator for the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS).
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McGuire returned to the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA) in 1991 as deputy associate administrator for hazardous materials safety.Previously, between 1983 and 1988, he had been a policy analyst supporting RSPA's hazardous materials and pipeline safety programs.
Between 1988 and 1991 McGuire served as a senior program analyst in the then-office of the assistant secretary of transportation for policy and international affairs.His work in that role concentrated on short and long term analyses of economic and safety issues having a significant technical component.
Before joining USDOT, McGuire spent eight yeas in the laboratories of theoretical and mathematical biology at the National Cancer Institute and the Washington Veterans Administration Hospital.His work involved research on computer modeling of human and animal metabolic system.
McGuire received his undergraduate training in biology, including economics and engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.He also received his master's and doctoral degrees in biochemistry from MIT, with a minor concentration in computer science.He received his legal training from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. McGuire resides in Rockville, Md. with his wife, Betty Ann, and their four children.