Robert Greene

About Robert

(updated 2/2019) Robert is a Visiting Research Fellow at Tsinghua University, where his time as a 2018-19 Luce Scholar is split between the People’s Bank of China School of Finance Listed Company Research Center, the School of Economics and Management’s Center for Digital Financial Assets, and the Institute for Fintech Research. Robert is also a Fellow at both Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems and the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Previously, Robert served as a strategic advisor at Patomak Global Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based financial services consultancy. There, his client work focused on strategic and regulatory issues facing asset management firms, broker-dealers, cryptocurrency market participants, and insurance companies. Prior to joining Patomak, Robert was an associate at Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company, where he served on engagements related to stress testing, equity derivatives markets, mortgage servicing, and consumer complaint management. Before entering the private sector, Robert worked for the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on bank regulation reform and Federal Reserve System oversight efforts. Earlier in his career, Robert examined financial sector trends as a researcher at Harvard University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, producing studies on community banking, asset management regulatory issues, and consumer lending markets. His research has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and publications by U.S. regulators. He has also presented his findings before academic, industry, and public sector audiences across the U.S. Robert earned his M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and his B.B.A., magna cum laude, in finance and public policy from The College of William and Mary.