Roger Nober has served as Director of the GW Regulatory Studies since January 2024, where he manages the Regulatory Studies Center and teaches in the Trachtenberg and Law Schools at GW.  His career includes service as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at BNSF Railway, Chairman of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board and Chief Counsel of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nober retired from BNSF Railway Co. in December 2022, after serving 16 years as an Executive Vice President responsible for overseeing legal and regulatory matters, environmental claims, compliance, communications as well as state government and community affairs. He also served on the Board of BNSF Railway LLC. Prior to joining BNSF, Nober was a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP.

From 2002 to 2006, Nober was Chairman of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, having been nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate. From 2001 to 2002, he served as Counselor to the Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation. From 1993 to 2001, he served in a variety of roles for the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives, including serving as chief counsel from 1996 to 2001. He previously had been an associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom and a law clerk in the Southern District of New York.  Nober has a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a Juris Doctor from Harvard University School of Law.

He currently is a board member of the Eno Center for Transportation, an advisory board member at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, a member of the Business Advisory Council at Northwestern University Transportation Center, a former member of the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission, and a past and current board member of several nonprofit organizations.