Robert Harrison

Robert S. Harrison is an American banker, lawyer, and educational & philanthropic administrator. He served as the chief executive officer of the Clinton Global Initiative from 2007 to 2016 and was the first executive director of the Clinton Foundation’s childhood obesity initiative from 2005 to 2007. He has been a member of the Clinton Foundation's Board of Directors since 2018. He previously served as the chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees from 2011 to 2022. Harrison 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, brother of Sigma Phi, and member of the Quill and Dagger society.