Robert Hormats
Robert Hormats
Robert D. "Bob" Hormats is Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. Immediately prior he served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environmentfrom 2009 to 2013. Hormats was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, which he joined in 1982. He served as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, from 1977 to 1979, and Assistant Secretary of State, from 1981 to 1982, at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. He was Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1979...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth13 April 1943
CountryUnited States of America
The refineries are going flat out and additional crude is not going to be able to go through those refineries right away, ... It's a good thing to show to the OPEC countries that we're doing something ourselves to increase supply, but it may not achieve much in the near term.
They're doing what's proved to work in the past, which is to tighten rates.
The U.S. is better off because we would not be selling very much to Mexico today if the Mexican economy were in crisis. In fact, we are selling more to Mexico today than before the crisis occurred.
He will reach out to a broader range of people to hear their point of view. The worst way to serve the president is to narrow the range of advice he is exposed to.
He is very, very good about getting lots of information from people who actually run companies, who actually make financial and business decisions. ... When he sees them socially, he'll find out what's on their minds. He does that a lot. And people in turn are very discreet and they don't turn around and say he's called them.
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