Robert Tobiassen is legal consultant based in Virginia. He spent 34 years working for the federal service with regulatory, taxation and administrative and judicial enforcement experience within the domestic and global alcohol industry.

He was chief counsel at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), US Treasury Department, from 2003 to 2012. He holds degrees in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a J.D. from the Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon; and a LLM in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. He also received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the Secretary of the Treasury.