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Roger Robinson
Roger W. Robinson, Jr. is Chairman and Co-Founder of the Prague Security Studies Institute in the Czech Republic and Executive Director of PSSI Washington Inc. He was formerly Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the Reagan National Security Council, where he was the principal architect of the secret economic and financial strategy for the take-down of the Soviet Union. He later served as Chairman of the Congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission for the bulk of 2001-2006.
Prior to his government service, Mr. Robinson was a Vice President in the International Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank with responsibility for Chase’s loan portfolios in the USSR, Central/Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia. He also served as a personal staff assistant to then-Chase Chairman David Rockefeller for some three years.
Mr. Robinson was President & CEO of RWR Advisory Group, a data services, research and risk management firm that specialized in assessing the financial and commercial risk factors associated with Chinese and Russian companies, particularly with regard to their presence in the U.S. capital markets. This firm was acquired by Janes Defense Group in 2022.
Mr. Robinson has published extensively on security-related risk in the U.S. and allied capital markets and 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 regular television and radio commentator.
Mr. Robinson holds a B.A. from Duke University and an M.A. from the Elliott School of George Washington University. Between 1986 and 1993, Mr. Robinson served as a member of the Board of Visitors at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.
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