Robert Hormats

Robert Hormats
18th Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
In office
September 23, 2009 – July 31, 2013
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byReuben Jeffery III
Succeeded byCatherine A. Novelli
15th Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
In office
1981–1982
Preceded byDeane R. Hinton
Succeeded byRichard T. McCormack
Personal details
Born (1943-04-13) April 13, 1943 (age 81)
Baltimore, Maryland
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materTufts University (BA, MS, MALD, PhD)

Robert David "Bob" Hormats[1] (born April 13, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland)[2] is Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates.[3] Immediately prior he served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment (at the time, entitled Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs) from 2009 to 2013. Hormats was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International), which he joined in 1982. He served as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, from 1977 to 1979, and Assistant Secretary of State, from 1981 to 1982, at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (formerly Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs). He was Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1979 to 1981. He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the United States National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic adviser to Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He helped to manage the Nixon administration's opening of diplomatic relations with China's communist government. He was a recipient of the French Legion of Honor in 1982 and the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 1974.[4][5]

Hormats has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and served on the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[4]

Hormats is also a member of the Atlantic Council' s[6] Board of Directors.

  1. ^ "Robert David Hormats (1943–)". Department of State. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  2. ^ "Nomination of Robert D. Hormats to be an Assistant Secretary of State | the American Presidency Project".
  3. ^ "Robert D. Hormats | Tiedemann Wealth Management". www.tiedemannwealth.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-18.
  4. ^ a b United States Department of State Bio at the State Dept. website
  5. ^ Solomon, Jay (July 20, 2009). "White House Taps Hormats for State Post". The Wall Street Journal.
  6. ^ "Board of Directors". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2020-02-11.