Robert Alan Pastor (April 10, 1947 – January 8, 2014) was a member of the National Security Council staff and a writer on foreign affairs.
Pastor earned his bachelor's degree in history from Lafayette College and a Masters of Public Administration and Policy (MPA), with a concentration in International Economics from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
[1][2] Pastor was a member of the National Security Council Staff with a portfolio that included Latin America and the Caribbean during the administration of President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.
After the Republicans won control of the Senate in November 1994, Helms became chairman of the committee and refused to permit a vote on Pastor, who then requested for Clinton to withdraw his nomination.
[citation needed] He served as a Senior Fellow at the Carter Center, where he established the programs on Latin America and the Caribbean, democracy and election-monitoring, and Chinese village elections.