Roger W. Robinson, Jr.

Roger W. Robinson, Jr. has served as President and CEO of RWR Advisory Group since its founding in 1985.  RWR Advisory Group is a risk management and consulting firm that specializes in the fields of reputational risk related to corporate ties to security-sensitive countries and regions, “early warning” geopolitical and competitive intelligence as well as large-scale business development opportunities.  Mr. Robinson has also served as Co-Founder of the Prague Security Studies Institute in the Czech Republic since its inception in early 2002 and since 2012 as PSSI's Acting Executive Director.

 

Between 2001 and 2009, Mr. Robinson served as President and CEO of Conflict Securities Advisory Group, an independent research firm that focuses on the intersection of global finance and international security concerns.  He also served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission from 2001 to 2006.

Prior to forming the firms referenced above, Mr. Robinson worked at the White House from March 1982 to September 1985, most of that time serving as Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).Between January 1984 and April 1985, Mr. Robinson served as Executive Secretary of the Senior Interdepartmental Group-International Economic Policy, a Cabinet-level body that reported through the NSC to the President. Prior to joining the NSC staff, Mr. Robinson was a 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 and Central Europe and Yugoslavia for five years.  He also served for some two and a half years as a personal assistant to former Chase Chairman David Rockefeller and earlier on assignment with the Chase branch in Tokyo.  

E-mail: robinson at pssi.cz