Chris Wright is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Liberty Energy, a major oilfield services company with fracking and mining assets whose business he would have significant opportunities to influence as Secretary of Energy. As of November 2024, Wright held approximately $46.8 million worth of Liberty shares.

Since 2020, Wright has sat on the Board of Directors of the Western Energy Alliance, a major oil and gas lobbying group whose membership includes Liberty Energy.

• Since Wright joined the Western Energy Alliance’s Board of Directors, the group has spent $675,000 on lobbying related to oil and gas permitting issues, including $120,000 in 2024, $140,000 in 2023, $135,000 in 2022, $120,000 in 2021, and $160,000 in 2020.
  

Wright has been a board member for Oklo Inc. and EMX Royalty Corp since spring 2024. EMX Royalty Corp. is a publicly traded global mining rights company and Oklo develops nuclear fission technology. 

• In its most recent letter to shareholders, Oklo projected a massive increase in AI power demand between the close of 2024 and the start of 2030 due to a rapid growth in AI data centers and demand for nuclear energy. Other Trump world figures on the Oklo board include OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Ajay Royan.
  

Wright serves on the executive committee of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance (DEPA), a domestic oil and gas lobbying group chaired by Continental Resources founder and Trump mega donor Harold Hamm. Hamm is financially linked to other Trump nominees, including Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

Wright also serves as a director at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a conservative think tank and member of Project 2025.