Chris Wright
Secretary of Energy
Christopher Allen Wright was born in January 1965. He earned an undergraduate degree and a master’s in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also attended the University of California at Berkeley as a graduate student.
In 1992, Wright founded a company involved in fracking, Pinnacle Technologies, and served as its CEO for 14 years. He was also chairman of another shale gas production company, Stroud Energy. He founded Liberty Energy in 2011 which expanded the production of oil and gas through fracking, serving as its chairman and CEO. He also sat on the board of directors for a company that designs small fast-neutron reactors and of a corporation that pays royalties for mineral and mining rights.
President Donald Trump nominated Wright to be Secretary of Energy. He was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in on February 3, 2025.
He is married to Liz and they have a family.
In the News…
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright addressed CERAWeek 2025, discussing energy production in the United States and climate realism. He said that “responses to climate change bring their own set of trade-offs.“
Secretary Wright said, “Energy is the enabler of everything that we do. Everything. Energy is not A sector of the economy, it is the sector that enables every other sector. Energy is life.”
The Energy secretary stated, “The Trump administration will treat climate change from what it is, a global physical phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world. We have indeed raised global atmospheric CO2 concentration by 50% in the process of more than doubling human life expectancy, lifting millions of the world’s, lifting almost all of the world’s citizens out of grinding poverty, launching modern medicine, telecommunications, planes, trains, and automobiles too. Everything in life involves trade-offs. Everything.“
Contact this Leader…
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The Honorable Chris Wright
Secretary of Energy
1000 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20585
