Rob Dugger has had a long and varied career in business and public service and is an expert on government policy assessment and the effects of policy on domestic and global markets and financial institutions. He is the founder and managing partner of Hanover Investment Group, a firm specializing in helping business and government clients navigate significant changes in fiscal conditions. Prior to Hanover, Rob was a partner in Tudor Investment Corporation for fifteen years. Tudor is a global asset management company active in currency, bond, equity, and commodity market trading and venture capital investment worldwide.
Prior to Tudor, Rob served as Policy Director at the American Bankers Association, where he facilitated a panel of bank officials in developing a plan that became the RTC and the solution to the U.S. Savings & Loan problem. Rob began his career at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the early 1970s and served as a senior staff member of both the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee in the 1980s.
Rob's philanthropic commitments are in two areas - investing early in the lives of American children, and wildlife conservation in Africa. In the United States, Rob is a founder of the Partnership for America's Economic Success, chairman of the Invest in Kids Working Group, and a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development - all projects focused on ascertaining and communicating the economic growth and job creation value of investing early in the lives of children. In his home state of Virginia, Rob is board member of Smart Beginnings, a member of Governor Kaine's Strong Start Pre-Kindergarten Council, served as co-chair of Governor Warner's Virginia Early Learning Council, and is a founding board member of the Alexandria Community Trust.
In Africa, Rob is board chairman of Grumeti Reserves Ltd, a Tanzanian eco-tourism company organized to preserve the Wildebeest migration route in a 450,000 acre game reserve adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Grumeti's commercial tourism activities are done in partnership with the world's number-one rated hospitality company Singita Game Reserves www.Singita.com. Rob is also vice chairman of its NGO affiliate, the Grumeti Community and Conservation Fund.
Rob received his BA from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Federal Reserve Dissertation Fellowship.
Read Mr. Dugger's speech to the United Way of Greater Topeka on March 27, 2008.
Read Mr. Dugger's speech to the American Academy of Pediatrics on October 26, 2007.
Read Mr. Dugger's Spanish speech to the Legal Momentum Family Initiative on June 4, 2007.
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