Robert Harrison (financier)

Robert S. Harrison is an American banker, lawyer, and educational & philanthropic administrator.[1]

Currently he serves as the CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative and Chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.[2][3]

He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1976, and subsequently was a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford and received a juris doctor from Yale University.[4] At Cornell, Harrison was a student-elected member of the university Board of Trustees, active in student government, a disc jockey at WVBR-FM, and member of the Quill and Dagger society.

Previous he worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell and Goldman Sachs and did fundraising for the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark and John Kerry.[5][6]

Academic offices
Preceded by
Peter C. Meinig
Chairman of Cornell Board of Trustees
2011-present
Succeeded by

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