Robert S. Gelbard
Amb. (ret.) Robert S. Gelbard is an international business consultant. His 35-year Foreign Service career included numerous senior policy positions, including Ambassador to Indonesia and East Timor, Ambassador to Bolivia, President Clinton’s Special Representative to the Balkans, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Gelbard was also President George H. W. Bush’s Special Representative for the 1992 San Antonio Summit and the US Representative to the Paris Club. He has received numerous decorations and awards from the US Government, including the Presidential Meritorious Award and the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award, as well as from governments in Bolivia and Brazil. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia.
Gelbard serves on several US corporate boards, as well as on the Boards of Directors of Foreign Policy for America and the Center for European Policy Analysis. He is a graduate of Colby College and Harvard University and was awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Villanova University Law School and Colby College for his work on international democracy-building and peacekeeping.