Robert S. Harrison is an American banker, lawyer, and educational & philanthropic administrator.
[5] At Cornell, Harrison was a student member of the university Board of Trustees, active in student government, a disc jockey at WVBR-FM, brother of Sigma Phi, and member of the Quill and Dagger society.
He joined Goldman Sachs in 1987, where he became a partner in the firm’s investment banking division and global co-head of its Communications, Media, and Entertainment group until 2003.
From 1981 to 1987, Harrison practiced corporate law in the New York and Paris offices of Davis, Polk and Wardwell.
[6][7] Harrison serves as a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, a Director of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars and the Clinton Foundation, Chairman Emeritus of the Henry Street Settlement Board of Directors, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.