Robert Hormats has been a senior official in the administrations of five different American presidents, a top executive on Wall Street and major business leader working with companies in the United States and throughout the world. His most recent government job was Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. Bob began his career as Senior Staff Member on the National Security Council Staff in 1969. During his tenure, he served as senior economic advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft, and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. In this capacity, he was responsible for international economic policy, global energy issues, foreign trade and investment matters and monetary/financial issues. He played a major role in the opening of U.S. relations with China as Senior White House Economic Advisor to Dr. Kissinger during the early 1970s, the American response to the global energy crisis of the 1970s, international trade negotiations and resolving several financial crises involving Asia, Russia, Latin America, and the U.S. He also participated in American Middle East Diplomacy in the 1970s and 1980s under Dr. Kissinger, including Shuttle Diplomacy after the 1973 Arab- Israel War. He was also a senior member of Goldman Sachs and his last job there was Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Earlier he was on the Board of Human Genome Sciences Corp and Grace Pharmaceuticals, and the  International Advisory Board of Toyota.

He is currently lecturing regularly at Yale University’s School of Management and before that was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton. He recently was a Pacific Leadership Fellow at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. He was also Chairman of the Board of the RAND Center for Asia and Pacific Policy. For several years Bob was a member of the Treasury Department's International Monetary Committee led by Paul Volcker and the Secretary of Defense’s high level Defense Policy Board led by Secretary Bill Perry Secretary Ash Carter. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Tower Corporation and advisor to Sumitomo Mitsui Bank; COHERE, a 5G Technology Company; and, EeroQ, a Quantum Computing Company.

In the past , Bob served on the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York as well as the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

Bob has been awarded the French Legion of Honor by the President of France and the Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit by the President of Germany.

Bob appears as a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg , CNN and Fox and publishes regularly in TIME Magazine. His books include The Price of Liberty: Paying for America’s Wars from the Revolution to the War on Terror; Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy; and Reforming the International Monetary System.

Bob earned a BA from Tufts University in 1965, an MA in 1966 and a PhD in 1970 in International Economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts. He speaks French, German, Swahili and limited Mandarin.