Craig A. Hart is an Attorney-Advisor at the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce. 

At CLDP, Craig is a member of the Energy & Minerals team, focusing on minerals supply chains. 

Craig’s past law practice focuses on energy infrastructure project finance and capital markets, representing project developers, lenders, and investors in petrochemicals, power generation infrastructure, and high technology transactions. He has worked with governments and projects in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.  His practice included practicing with the international law firms White & Case and O’Melveny & Myers, and serving as counsel to the Asia Development Bank’s Future Carbon Fund.

Craig is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Council on Standards and Certification. Additionally, Craig serves on the International Organization for Standardization’s U.S. Technical Advisory Committees TC-265 for carbon sequestration technologies, TC-298 for rare earth elements, TC-333 for lithium, and PC-348 on raw materials.

Craig earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bachelor’s and a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master’s in economics from New York University.