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Walter Cruickshank

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Walter Cruickshank
Deputy Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Assumed office
October 1, 2011
Preceded byPosition created
Deputy Director of the Minerals Management Service
In office
April 8, 2002 – October 1, 2011
Acting Director of the Minerals Management Service
In office
June 2007 – July 2007; January 2009 — July 2009
Preceded byJohnnie Burton (2007); Randall Luthi (2009)
Succeeded byRandall Luthi (2007); S. Elizabeth Birnbaum (2009)

Walter Cruickshank is an American academic and government administrator who is the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in the United States Department of the Interior. He has served in that capacity since BOEM's establishment in October 2011.

He was the Deputy Director of the Minerals Management Service (later called the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement) from April 8, 2002 until its dissolution on October 1, 2011. He was the Acting Director of that agency from June 2007 to July 2007 and again from January 2009 to July 2009.

Cruickshank has a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in minerals management from Pennsylvania State University.

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