Fred H. Hutchison

President & CEO, LNG Allies

Fred H. Hutchison is President & CEO of The USLNG Association (LNG Allies). An advocate, communicator, and entrepreneur, Fred has been a government and public relations generalist for five decades and is a trusted adviser to private and public sector leaders worldwide. Prior to founding LNG Allies (as an advocacy coalition) in October 2013, he represented America's land-grant universities for a dozen years. Early in his career, he served as a legislative assistant for energy and natural resources for U.S. Sen. Frank Church. Raised on an Idaho farm and

educated as a civil engineer, Fred earned a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In May 2025, the European Union and its 27 Member States honored him with the prestigious Transatlantic Bridge Award (as one of four Americans), recognizing his "invaluable contribution to the energy security of the European Union

[and his] relentless effort to create a transatlantic market for liquefied natural gas."

Fred's professional accomplishments span government relations, legislative advocacy, and coalition building at the highest levels. He is the leading spokesman and advocate for the USLNG export industry, having built LNG Allies into a globally recognized organization advancing energy trade and cooperation. Earlier in his career, he

assembled the advocacy and communications team for 76 land-grant universities and helped secure more than $400 million in funding increases over 12 years for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. At the turn of the millennium he managed media relations for a series of nationwide national cybersecurity conferences led by

the White House, directed congressional communications for more than 7,500 family-owned forest products companies, and coordinated the coalition of International Space Station contractors. His legislative

accomplishments include drafting major portions of the National Forest Management Act, Public Rangelands Improvement Act, Endangered American Wilderness Act, and Central Idaho Wilderness Act, and helping to create the Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness, the largest wilderness area in the Lower 48 States.