Michael J. Wallace


Board Member

Mr. Michael Wallace serves as Board Member of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Wallace retired in 2011 as Vice Chairman and COO of Constellation Energy and Chairman of Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, which includes nuclear generation capacity of 3,869 megawatts from five nuclear reactor units at three sites in two states.

In the course of his 42 year career, he has had senior executive responsibility for 27 different nuclear reactors, in the USA, Canada, and the U.S. Navy.

He served on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, an advisory council for the President of the United States on matters related to critical infrastructure and homeland security, from 2008 to 2021.

Since June 2011, Mr. Wallace has served as a Senior Advisor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), leading the US Nuclear Energy Project, and co-Chairman of the Commission on Nuclear Energy Policy in the United States..

Further, he supports nuclear energy-related activities with the US Department of Energy, and other related USA entities.

Since 2019, Mr. Wallace has served as a member of the Board of Directors of X-Energy Company. X-Energy is a nuclear reactor and fuel design engineering company, developing Generation IV, high-temperature gas cooled nuclear reactors and the TRISO fuel to power them. Their XE-100 design is among the most advanced SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) in the world.

Mr. Wallace has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago (USA), with a specialization in finance