Robert David "Bob" Hormats[1] (born April 13, 1943, in Baltimore, Maryland)[2] is Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates.

He helped to manage the Nixon administration's opening of diplomatic relations with China's communist government.

[9] He is a member of Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE), the Economic Club of New York, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Irvington Institute for Immunological Research, Engelhard Corporation, and a former member of the Rockefeller Center Club, the Pacific Council on Foreign Policy, and Freedom House.

[15] Hormats has been a supporter of legislation that would increase investments in infrastructure in America through a national bank that would develop public-private partnerships for large transportation projects.

[17] He is an advocate of enhancing intelligence capabilities, modernizing military equipment and spending more money on preparing first-responders like firemen and emergency medical technicians for crises.

[18] He worries that future presidential administrations will spend less than they should on homeland security because to do so will require raising taxes or cutting non-defense programs.

In 2004, the government fined Goldman Sachs $2 million for illegally and selectively promoting the stock of four Asian companies that were about to go public.

Hormats told four media outlets that PetroChina, a Chinese-based oil producer, was not invested in Darfur.