Alex Whittington

Alex Whittington is the director for international affairs at Cheniere Energy based in Washington, where he has served since July 2018. In this role, he leads the company’s engagement with key executive branch agencies, including the White House and National Security Council, United States Trade Representative, and the Departments of State, Energy, Commerce, and Treasury, in support of Cheniere’s commercial operations, regulatory priorities, and policy goals. He serves as the lead policy advisor to company leadership on international affairs matters, with particular expertise in U.S. trade policy, sanctions, and global energy geopolitics, and is a regular speaker and company representative at events across Washington, New York, Houston, and New Orleans. Prior to joining Cheniere, Whittington built an extensive career in public service across multiple U.S. government agencies. He served as an international economist at the Department of the Treasury’s Office of International Debt and Development Policy and before that as deputy director of the Office of the Middle East and Asia at the Department of State, where he led a team integrating energy security priorities into U.S. bilateral and multilateral foreign policy with an emphasis on the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. He also served as chief of the Political and Economic Section at the U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt, Germany, where he advanced U.S. priorities amid the Eurozone crisis and promoted inward investment in the United States. Whittington’s earlier government career included roles as special assistant to the undersecretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, where he coordinated the State Department’s role in the G7 and G20 processes as well as postings as an economic officer at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan and the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Across these roles, he developed deep expertise in macroeconomic policy, financial reform, energy, trade, and digital freedom issues. He holds a degree from Georgetown University and is proficient in German, Vietnamese, and Spanish.