Biography of Roger W. Robinson, Jr.
Roger
W. Robinson, Jr.
Roger W. Robinson, Jr. is President of
RWR Inc., a Washington D.C.-based consulting firm established in 1985 which
provides real-time analyses of breaking geopolitical developments which could
potentially impact on global debt, equity and currency markets.
The company also offers advisory services in the areas of political risk
management, strategic planning, defense and energy matters and the nexus between
international finance and traditional national security concerns.
Mr. Robinson is also President and CEO of RWR CZ based in Prague, the
Czech Republic.
Prior to forming his consulting firm,
Mr. Robinson was Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the
National Security Council. He
worked at the White House from March 1982 until September 1985.
Between January 1984 and April 1985, Mr. Robinson also served
as Executive Secretary of the Senior Interdepartmental Group-International
Economic Policy, a Cabinet-level body which reported through the NSC to the
President. As Senior Director, Mr.
Robinson had responsibility for all economic, trade, financial and energy
relationships of the United States worldwide for NSC.
Prior to joining the NSC staff, Mr.
Robinson was Vice President in the International Department of the Chase
Manhattan Bank in New York City. As
a banker, he had responsibilities for Chase’s loan portfolio in the USSR,
Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia for five years.
He also served for some two and a half years as a personal staff
assistant to former Chase Chairman David Rockefeller and earlier on assignment
with the Chase branch in Tokyo.
Mr. Robinson has published extensively
on the security dimensions of East-West economic and financial relations and has
been at the forefront in raising attention to new political and social concerns
associated with the access of emerging market entities to the U.S. capital
markets. He has served as an expert
witness on numerous occasions before both Senate and House Committees.
In addition, he is a frequent radio commentator and has made a number of
broadcast appearances on such programs as the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour;
Cable News Network’s Crossfire, Money Line, World Day and Prime News;
NBC’s Today Show and Nightly News; ABC’s Nightly News and
Nightline; CBS’s Evening News and Night Watch; Nightly
Business Report; CNBC, BBC-TV; Wall Street Journal TV; Associated
Press TV; This Morning’s Business; PBS’s American Interests;
Fox Morning News; Biznet’s It’s Your Money; and CSPAN, as well
as several televised domestic and international documentaries.
He has also served as a consultant to the Department of Defense.
Mr. Robinson holds a B.A. from Duke
University and a M.A. from the George Washington University.
His graduate work focused on the economies of the former
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Between
1986 and 1993, Mr. Robinson served as a member of the Board of Visitors at the
Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.
He is Chairman of the William J. Casey Institute of the Center for
Security Policy and currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Center for Security Policy as well as Board Chairman of the Prague Institute for
National Security. Mr. Robinson
likewise is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sarah Scaife and Carthage
Foundations.
For
more information about the William J. Casey Institute go to: http://www.security-policy.org/wjcinst.html
For the William J.
Casey Institute publications go to:
http://www.security-policy.org/wjcpubs.html