Biocides The Americas 2024

Dr. Nancy Beck is the Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP). OCSPP implements key statutes such as the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Pollution Prevention Act. She has a Ph.D. in toxicology with over twenty-five years of applied public health experience seventeen of which were in government, including over a decade of work as a scientist in the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and senior leadership positions at the EPA and on detail to the White House within the Office of Management and Budget and the National Economic Council (NEC). She also served as Director of Regulatory Science at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP prior to returning to EPA for a third time in January 2025.