Robert D. Hormats is Vice Chairman
of Goldman Sachs (International).
He joined Goldman Sachs in 1982
and became a Managing Director in 1998.
Mr. Hormats served as Assistant
Secretary of State for Economic and
Business Affairs from 1981 to 1982,
Ambassador and Deputy US Trade
Representative from 1979 to 1981, and
Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Economic and Business Affairs at the
Department of State from 1977 to 1979. He
served as a Senior Staff Member for
International Economic Affairs on the
National Security Council from 1969 to
1977, where he was Senior Economic
Advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General
Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew
Brzezinski. Mr. Hormats was a recipient of
the French Legion of Honor in 1982 and
Arthur Fleming Award in 1974. He has
been a visiting lecturer at Princeton
University and is a member of the Board of
Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy and the Dean’s Council of the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and a board
member of the Irvington Institute for
Immunological Research, Engelhard
Hanovia, Inc., The Economic Club of New
York, and Freedom House.

Mr. Hormats’ publications include The
Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars;
Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy;
American Albatross: The Foreign Debt
Dilemma; and Reforming the International
Monetary System. Other publications
include articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign
Policy, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,
American Banker and The Financial Times.
Mr. Hormats earned a BA with a
concentration in economics and political
science from Tufts University in 1965. He
earned an MA in 1966 and a PhD in
International Economics in 1970 from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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