Charles W. Robinson
Charles Wesley Robinson ( born September 7, 1919 in Long Beach, California ) is a former business manager and entrepreneur who was at times also deputy foreign minister of the United States.
Life
After schooling Robinson studied economics at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1941 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) from. After he made during the Second World War his military service as an engineer officer in the U.S. Navy. After the end of World War II, he completed postgraduate studies in business administration at Stanford University and in 1947 earned a Master of Business Administration ( MBA).
He then worked in the private sector and 1952-1974 President of the Marcona Mining Corporation. Over time, he was also active in many political and economic organizations such as the Committee for International Policy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as a member of the President's Circle of the National Academy of Sciences, as a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, a member of the Board of Directors the Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1973 he was a founding member of the Trilateral Commission.
In 1975 he was first Undersecretary of State in the U.S. State Department and as such was responsible until 1975 for Business, Enterprise and Agriculture ( U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs ). Subsequently, he was from April 1976 to the end of the term of President Gerald Ford in January 1977 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (U.S. Deputy Secretary of State ).
1977 returned Robinson in the private sector back and was initially Senior Managing Partner of the 1977 Lehman Brothers merged investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co.. Afterwards it was 1977-2004 not only a member of the Board of Directors of Nike, but 1978-1979 also Executive Vice President of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Company. At times, he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the management consultancy Arthur D. Little.
Most recently he worked as an entrepreneur venture capital companies and founder of DynaYacht, today CBTF.