Rob Strayer

Rob Strayer is the president and CEO of the Critical Minerals Forum. The Forum is a nonprofit consortium of critical minerals miners, processors, investors, and end-user manufacturers. It received seed funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Forum forecasts critical minerals supply and demand by geography, costs of production, and prices, and it uses that data to facilitate investments and offtake agreements to increase diversified and reliable supply for critical minerals.

Rob served as the ambassador for technology diplomacy at the U.S. State Department during the first Trump Administration. During that time, led a global campaign to enable trusted digital infrastructure with dozens of U.S. partners. He also led the 90-person U.S. delegation to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2018. Earlier in his career, Rob Strayer was the general counsel of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He previously practiced telecommunications law at WilmerHale, and earned a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and a B.A. in economics from Denison University.