Rob Strayer 2026 speakers

Rob Strayer is President and CEO of the Critical Minerals Forum, a consortium of critical minerals miners, processors, investors and end-user manufacturers that builds transparent models of production cost, price, supply and demand and uses them to facilitate international investment and offtake agreements. He is a Director for minerals projects in Namibia and Zambia; Director-elect for the Ukraine Moldova American Enterprise Fund; and Advisor for the Freedom Metals Acquisition Corporation. He served as the U.S. Ambassador for Technology Diplomacy at the U.S. State Department during the first Trump administration. From 2020 to 2024, he was Executive Vice President of Global Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council. He spent more than a decade as a senior United States Senate staffer, including as General Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and practiced law at WilmerHale with a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University Law School.