Doug Lober

Doug Lober, a 2022-2024 Distinguished Career Institute fellow at Stanford, has deep roots in California. He has ancestors who came across the country in covered wagons and settled in California’s gold mining country. His grandfather and brothers had a saw mall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and his mother is a California native daughter.  Doug studied history at Yale, concentrating in history of the American West under Howard Lamar and writing a thesis about a cattle town on the Chisholm Trail, 1883-1887. Reflecting his interest in environmental stewardship, he received a doctorate from Yale’s School of the Environment, was an assistant professor at Duke’s School of the Environment, worked on rainforest protection in Costa Rica, and was a natural resources and fisheries officer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya. Most of his career was spent investing at Fidelity Investments. His golden retriever was named Tahoe after his favorite beautiful High Sierra Lake.