official chief position for the bureau. Hochstein continued his efforts in all previously engaged fields of national and international energy and security matters, including Iran sanctions, energy opportunities in Latin America, the US-India energy cooperation, the US-China energy cooperation, the administration's strategy on Russia, and the fight against ISIS. He also was involved in discussing and mapping out details of the Southern Gas Corridor project generally and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline with Greece specifically. He authored the White House Caribbean Energy Security Initiative and chaired President Obama's U.S.-Caribbean and U.S.-Central America Energy Security Task Force. He also continued to lead U.S. efforts to promote global fuel switching to natural gas and develop stronger natural gas markets in Asia and South Asia. He headed the State Department's Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program, formerly known as Global Shale Gas Initiative. He was succeeded by Frank R. Fannon, now Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. Since leaving the White House, Hochstein appeared on a Trump White House panel promoting the use of fossil fuels at the 2016 Bonn Climate Change Conference. Executive at Tellurian In 2017 Hochstein joined Tellurian, a private LNG-gas company and today serves as EVP of Marketing. He has left Tellurian to pursue other endeavors. Senior Advisor on Energy Security for Biden Administration Serving in various diplomatic positions for the United States government, according to the US state department in 2021, he is not a dual-national. According to the Washington Post, Hochstein is a close aide of President Biden, serving as his "energy whisperer." Former US State Department official David Goldwyn said that Hochstein acts as “the person who bridges State, Treasury, the White House and Energy.” Hochstein was the lead mediator in brokering an agreement to resolve a decades-long dispute Israel and Lebanon surrounding the two countries' maritime border and the gas fields located there. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid tweeted: "On behalf of the State of Israel, I thank American mediator @AmosHochstein for his hard work to bring about this historic agreement." Energy and Foreign Policy Positions Hochstein sees renewable energies as very important and being at the center of both the future's energy market and US energy policy. He is of the opinion, that the realistic transition into a fully renewable resourced energy mix, will take some time and that the use of cleaner resources (e.g. LNG to replace heavy crude oils) for this transition period