Robert Blohm (born May 27, 1948, in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American and Canadian investment banker, economist, statistician, regulator, and public intellectual.
He later coined the term "the internet economy" in a Wall Street Journal opinion article by that title in 1996 co-authored by Takuma Amano, the Japanese CEO of Micrognosis, the monopoly IT provider of market information to all bank trading rooms.
The authors extended that estimate to employment for The Global Internet Project consortium of the world's main IT providers and computer and router manufacturers, at a conference hosted by the UK House of Lords.
In the later 1990s Blohm published articles in the general and trade press supporting restructuring the wholesale electric power industry into competitive markets for energy, transmission and reliability.
The article was reprinted a week later in the first issue of "The Asian Wall Street Journal" published after the Handover of Hong Kong as a warning to the Chinese government not to repeat Japan's mistake of a managed economy.
Following "New York Times" coverage of Blohm's diagnosis of the US/Canada Great Northeast Blackout of 2003, Blohm advised China's electric grids, government, and oil and gas industry on proper marketization of the energy industry, taught the subject at North China Electric Power University, and promoted it in Chinese media while living in Beijing for the decade ending in 2015.