Dr. Bruce  Robert

Dr. Bruce Robert

Economist, Advisory Board

Dr. Bruce Robert has more than 35 years of private sector and government experience. For more than a decade he was senior manager at CENTRA Technology, a DC-based national security consultancy, where he oversaw analytic teams and produced risk assessments for the government and private sector clients.

Before joining CENTRA, Dr. Robert served on the National Intelligence Council, and is a 25-year veteran of the CIA.  He served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for International Economics and Global Issues and pioneered work on financial contagion—the pathways and transmission of global financial shocks and emerging market risk.  Bruce has a PhD and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Hawaii respectively.