Rob Wallace
Haub School Advisory Board
The Rob Wallace Group
Contact Information
haub.school@uwyo.edu
Rob Wallace’s career specializing in the energy, natural resources, and public lands disciplines spans over four decades.
In 2019 he was nominated by President Trump and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks overseeing personnel and policies of the National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service – agencies with a combined annual budget of $7 billion and 27,000 employees.
Rob began his career as a seasonal park ranger in Grand Teton National Park and since then held positions in a number of private and public sector organizations. Those included assistant director of the National Park Service for congressional affairs; chief of staff to US Senator Malcolm Wallop (R-WY); staff director of the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; chief of staff to Wyoming governor Jim Geringer; manager of government relations for GE’s energy division; co-founder and president of the Upper Green River Conservancy, a sage grouse habitat mitigation bank in southwestern Wyoming; and managing partner of the Rob Wallace Group, a natural resources and energy consulting firm.
Originally from Evanston, Wyoming, Rob earned a BS in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Teton Village, Wyoming with his family.
