Robert J. Abernethy is President of American Standard Development Company and Self-Storage Management Company. He is both a trustee and member Emeritus of the Advisory Council of the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Atlantic Council, the executive committee of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a member of the Chairman’s Forum of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the US Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Mr. Abernethy is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Brookings Institution as well as the Advisory Board for The Truman National Security Project. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the RAND Center for Global Risk & Security and the New Leaders Council. Mr. Abernethy received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.