PERSON: Bob McNally

Rapidan Energy Group

Founder & President

Robert (“Bob”) McNally is an author and consultant who is president of Rapidan Energy Group, a Washington D.C.- consulting firm he established in 2009.

During the first term of President George W. Bush, McNally served on the White House staff as Special Assistant to the President on the National Economic Council and Senior Director for International Energy on the National Security Council.

He is the author of the award-winning book Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices (Columbia University Press, 2017), which received a strongly favorable review by the Wall Street Journal and the leading energy academic publication The Energy Journal. Crude Volatility won the Honorable Mention in Economics in the 2018 PROSE Award recognizing outstanding scholarship and prose. The International Association for Energy Economics selected Crude Volatility as the winner of the 2023 Marcel Boiteux Best International Energy Economics Book Award. In 2021, The Washingtonian named Bob McNally one of Washington’s Top 500 Most Influential People.

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