Robert S. Harrison is an American banker, lawyer, and educational & philanthropic administrator. Leadership Team - Clinton Foundation
accessed July 17, 2021 He currently serves as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Clinton Foundation and previously served as CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative from 2007 to 2016. Before that, he was the first Executive Director of the

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’s childhood obesity initiative from 2005 to 2007. He has been a member of the

's Board of Directors since 2018. He previously served as the chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees from 2011 to 2022 and has served as a trustee since 2002. Harrison received a bachelor's degree from

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in 1976, and subsequently was a

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and received a

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from Yale University. At Cornell, Harrison was a student member of the university Board of Trustees, active in student government, a

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at WVBR-FM, brother of

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, and member of the

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society. He joined

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in 1987, where he became a partner in the firm’s investment banking division and global co-head of its Communications, Media, and Entertainment group until 2003. From 1981 to 1987, Harrison practiced corporate law in the New York and Paris offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. He also fundraised for the presidential campaigns of

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and

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.Ethics in Business: Interview with Robert S. Harrison, CEO, Clinton Global Initiative
by Julia Taylor Kennedy; ''

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- Global Policy Innovations (GPI)'' , August 25, 2009Facilitator , Robert Harrison, CEO, Clinton Global Initiative
By Claire Lambrecht; '' ZDNet''; January 29, 2013 Harrison serves as a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, a Director of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars and the Clinton Foundation, Chairman Emeritus of the Henry Street Settlement Board of Directors, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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