Andrew Petrisin ’16

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multimodal Freight at the U.S. Department of Transportation

Major: Civil Engineering

Striving to make the country’s supply chain more efficient and resilient

Andrew Petrisin ’16, creator of the federal Department of Transportation’s landmark supply chain data-sharing program, was promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multimodal Freight earlier this summer. He is one of the Biden Administration’s point people addressing the on-going supply chain disruptions, initially caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Petrisin led the development of Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW), a platform to facilitate data exchange between the public and private sectors to avoid freight bottlenecks. He has worked closely with the freight industry to mitigate the supply chain impacts, including following the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore earlier this year. He served on the White House Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force and helped launch the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience.

Returning for a time to Notre Dame and the Keough School of Global Affairs, Petrisin helped launch the Integration Lab, which trains students how to work in diverse teams focused on challenges including sustainability, business & economics, and governance. He also taught undergraduate classes on human-centered design.

In addition to earning his bachelor’s in civil engineering from Notre Dame in 2016, Petrisin was also honored as an Andrews Scholar by the Center for Social Concerns.