Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg, Vice-Chair of III, is the Founding Director of the Intrastate Conflict Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation. He was Professor of Political Science and History at MIT, Academic Vice-President of Tufts University, and President of Lafayette College. Later, he served as the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Carleton University and the Centre for Governance Innovation in Canada, and then as the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Among his many books are The Corruption Cure (2017), Anticorruption (2020), Things Come Together: Africans Achieving Greatness (2020), and Transformative Political Leadership (2012). Rotberg earned his undergraduate degree in history at Oberlin College, his master’s degree at Princeton University, and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow.