Robert is Visiting Professor, King’s College London. He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton) in 1962. In the World Bank Group, he was appointed Director-General of the Independent Evaluation Group (1992-2002) after serving in numerous other operational and corporate management positions including Vice-President, Corporate Planning and Budgeting. A former member of the United Kingdom Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact (2006-2010), he currently sits on the boards of the UK Evaluation Society and the European Evaluation Society.