• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Rob Strayer

Critical Minerals Forum

President

Rob Strayer is president of the Critical Minerals Forum – a consortium of miners, processors, end-users, and investors that facilitates dealmaking to increase reliable supply chains for critical minerals – which is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Forum currently is focused on improving cost and price transparency as well as collaboration between governments and the private sector. 
Rob has two decades of experience at the intersection of government policymaking and international business. He served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for technology diplomacy at the U.S. State Department, and led a successful global campaign to build more resilient digital infrastructure supply chains with dozens of U.S. partners. He also has helped major technology companies navigate geopolitical supply chain challenges as the executive vice president of global policy at the leading technology trade association. Earlier in his career, Rob was the general counsel for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During that time, he advised senators on international economic policy, and led the drafting and successful passage of legislation that implemented significant new sanctions and other economic policy tools against U.S. adversaries. He previously practiced law at WilmerHale, and earned a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and a B.A. in economics from Denison University.

Sessions With Rob Strayer

Monday, 18 March

  • 07:30pm - 09:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 12:30 am - 19/mar/2024 02:00 am

    Supplying the Minerals for the Energy Future
    Mining, Minerals and Materials

    Critical minerals are essential inputs for the clean energy infrastructure that will underpin low-carbon economies. Their strategic importance has spurred an intense focus—and competition—by governments and industries to shape the mineral value chains of tomorrow. What strategies are governments and industry adopting to ensure sustainable and abundant mineral supply? What policies will streamline permitting and access to resources? What is the mine of the future and which technologies will drive its operations?