Robert Richardson Bowie (August 24, 1909 – November 2, 2013) was an American diplomat and scholar.
He served in the U.S. Army (1942–1946) as a commissioned officer with the Pentagon and in occupied Germany from 1945 until 1946.
The youngest professor of the school, he was a trusted confidant to John J. McCloy, the "unofficial chairman of the American establishment."
During periods of leave from Harvard between 1950 and 1952 Bowie worked for McCloy as one of his legal advisers in West Germany.
[1] He served as Director of Policy Planning from 1953–1957; co-founder, with Henry Kissinger, of Harvard's Center for International Affairs (1958); Counselor for the State Department from 1966-1968.