Robert Hammond (born 1969)[1] is a co-founder and the executive director of Friends of the High Line.
[2] Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Hammond graduated with honors in history from Princeton University.
Before working on the High Line, Hammond was a consultant for the Times Square Alliance, for the Alliance for the Arts and National Cooperative Bank (NCB), and an ex-officio trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from The New School.
[3] In 2013, the National Building Museum awarded Hammond and his business partner Joshua David the Vincent Scully Prize for "excellence in ... historic preservation".