Rafał Kasprów has served as Chief Executive Officer of SGE since 2019. SGE operates as a European platform for the deployment of BWRX-300 small modular reactor technology across Europe. He also serves as CEO of OSGE, a joint venture between SGE and ORLEN, Poland’s largest state-owned energy company, responsible for developing and deploying the BWRX-300 program in Poland.
For nearly two decades, he was a Managing Partner at a consulting firm advising leading companies in the energy, oil, telecommunications, and commodities sectors, including ORLEN, Synthos, Mercuria Energy Trading, Orange, Polkomtel, GE Capital, GE International, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, and KGHM. He also advised the Ministry of the State Treasury, the World Bank, and Poland’s largest crude oil supplier on strategic matters in the oil and gas sector. Earlier in his career, he served on the Supervisory Board of the Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) and Polish Telecommunications Internet.
Before entering the energy sector, he worked as a journalist in the 1990s, writing on economics and politics.
He studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and the University of Warsaw, where he pursued Political Science, he also earned an MBA from the University of Quebec in Montreal.
He has been a fellow of the Reuters Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and Freedom House.
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Robert leads the SGE’s effort to develop a fleet of small modular nuclear reactors in Europe and beyond.
Previously, Robert served at the U.S. Department of Energy as a Foreign Affairs Specialist and Diplomat. While at the DOE he advocated for civil nuclear programs using U.S. technology to delivered carbon free energy security and ensure economic competitiveness. He was also assigned to the National Nuclear Security Administration where he cooperated with partners to implement nuclear and radiological security programs in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
Robert has over 25 years of military service including deployments to Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and Kazakhstan. He completed multiple assignments with U.S. Army Special Forces and conducted rescue operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Robert is an alumnus of the University of Denver where he earned both a master’s degree in international security and a bachelor’s degree in international studies.