Commissioner Roger W. Robinson, Jr., was reappointed to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for a term expiring December 31, 2005. Served as the Commission Chair beginning October 2002 through July 2004 and was unanimously approved as Vice-Chairman for report cycle 2004-2005 on July 19, 2004.
Mr. Robinson is President and CEO of Conflict Securities Advisory Group, Inc. ( www.conflictsecurities.com ), a Washington, D.C.-based company that offers impartial research and advisory services in the field of global security risk management (i.e., the links of publicly-traded companies to terrorist-sponsoring states and proliferation-related concerns). He is also President of RWR Inc., a consulting firm established in 1985 that provides strategic planning services and analyses of breaking geopolitical developments that could potentially impact on international equity, debt, and currency markets.
Prior to forming these firms, he 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, Commissioner Robinson also served as Executive Secretary of the Senior Interdepartmental Group-International Economic Policy, a Cabinet-level body that reported through the National Security Council (NSC) to the President. As Senior Director, he had responsibility for all economic, financial, trade, and energy relationships of the United States worldwide for NSC.
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 staff assistant to former Chase Chairman David Rockefeller and earlier on assignment with the Chase branch in Tokyo.
Commissioner Robinson has published extensively on security-related risk in the global capital markets and earlier on East-West economic and financial relations. 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 makes regular broadcast media appearances.
Commissioner Robinson holds a B.A. from Duke University and an M.A. in international affairs from the George Washington University. He served for some seven years as a member of the Board of Visitors at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and presently serves on other Boards. Chairman Robinson is also co-founder of the Prague Security Studies Institute in the Czech Republic.