Janel Burdick is the Director of Office of Enforcement (OE). She previously served as the Deputy Director for OE, Director of the Division of Energy Market Oversight (DEMO) and Deputy Director of the Division of Analytics and Surveillance (DAS) in OE. Janel joined the Commission in 2009 as an Energy Industry Analyst in DEMO. When DAS was created in 2012, she was assigned as a branch chief, supervising the analytics of over 30 investigations into market manipulation and tariff violations. Janel also served for a year in 2014-15 as an Advisor to Chairman Norman Bay.
Prior to joining the Commission, Janel was a Product Controller and Settlements Analyst for the Commodities trading desk at Barclays Capital, working primarily with the oil, natural gas, and electricity desks. She also served in the United States Navy as a nuclear Surface Warfare Officer.
Janel holds a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Economics from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University.