IAS/SIR Speaker Series: Kirk Robertson

Kirk Robertson has a distinguished record of leadership in finance, business, and public service, including executive appointments in the administrations of President Clinton and Bush, and senior management, foreign affairs and national security positions with US Senate committees and senators.  He served as the Executive Vice President and transition CEO of OPIC, the US development bank and private equity corporation, where he guided expansion in Africa, Europe and Asia and new social impact products. 

Mr. Robertson has also worked for an international law firm, advising clients on cross-border transactions and public policy, with a global private equity fund, and he founded and is now president of Terra Vista Capital, a boutique international finance and business advisory firm.  He sits on corporate, industry association and nonprofit boards, is an angel investor, and has lectured at and worked with the entrepreneurship programs at Georgetown, George Washington and American Universities.  He received a BA from Grinnell College and an MBA from the George Washington University.

Mr. Robertson started out in Washington working for a prominent US Senator from Missouri, the late Senator Tom Eagleton.  His oldest son is a recent Washington University International Relations graduate who is now a Master of Finance candidate at the Olin School of Business.