Donald A. Robert (born 15 May 1959) is an American businessman who is the chairman of

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since May 2019. He was the chairman of

Experian Experian plc is a multinational corporation, multinational data broker and consumer credit reporting company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Experian collects and aggregates information on more than 1 billion people and businesses including ...

, an information services group with, from 2014 to 2019. He is also currently Chair of Council at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Early life

Robert was educated at

Benson Polytechnic High School Benson Polytechnic High School (BHS) is a technical public high school in the Portland Public Schools district. Its campus is located in the Central Eastside commercial area of Portland, Oregon, United States. Students are given a special em ...

and has a BSc degree in business administration from

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctor ...

Career

Robert began his career as a trainee at

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, where he managed loans for car dealers in Portland. He then took charge of its specialist credit recording division, Credco. After the division was sold to First American Financial Corporation in 1995, he led mortgage origination services there. He joined Experian North America in 2001The Telegraph
Experian chief Don Robert on bounty hunting and catching fraudsters
21 Aug 2010, and was chief executive of Experian (in London) from 1 January 2007 until July 2014, when he was appointed chairman and replaced by Brian Cassin as chief executive. In December 2018,

announced that he would be appointed as a non-executive director on 1 January 2019. He became chairman in May 2019, succeeding Donald Brydon. In 2023, Roberts became chair of Ekco, a cloud service provider.

Personal life

He and his wife Jennifer have two children.

References

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