Robert Harrison (financier)
Robert S. Harrison is an American banker, lawyer, and educational & philanthropic administrator.
Currently he serves as the CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative and Chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.
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. 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.
