Matt Fry

Matt Fry is the Director of the Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis at the School of Energy Resources where he leads a team of research professionals with backgrounds in economics, business and government to serve as a resource for decision-makers at the local, state, regional and national levels.

He also works to support SER’s other research centers to help bridge the gap between technical and policy issues.

Fry has served Wyoming with more than two decades of experience in natural resource management, regulation and policy in both the public and private sectors.

Fry began his career in fish and wildlife biology working for state wildlife agencies in Virginia, Arizona and Wyoming. While with the Wyoming office, he began to branch into the policy sphere, working alongside former Gov. Dave Fruedenthal’s staff on siting and mitigation issues for pipelines and electric transmission projects.

He then served as a senior policy adviser to former Gov. Matt Mead, focused on natural resources, energy and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) policy. During his tenure in that position, he testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works about the deployment of CCUS technology.

Additionally, he developed and managed the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, a project that culminated with a federal authorization for a statewide pipeline corridor system in Wyoming intended to facilitate development of carbon dioxide pipeline infrastructure and incentivize CCUS project deployment.

Most recently, Fry served as the policy and technical director at the Great Plains Institute, where he supported the carbon management program and was named to multiple prestigious committees and advisory councils.

In 2021, he was appointed to serve on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s committee on Carbon Utilization, Infrastructure, Markets, Research and Development. In 2022 he was appointed to serve as co-chair of the "societal consideration, impacts and safety" chapter of the National Petroleum Council Study - Harnessing Hydrogen. In 2023, Fry was appointed to the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force. 

Fry earned a B.S. in biology and chemistry from Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, W. Va., and an M.S. in resource law from the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.