An alumnus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Stephen Robert is the co-founder of the Source of Hope Foundation, an organization dedicated to poverty relief. Also the former chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer Group, Inc., Source of Hope Founder Stephen Robert serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
A leading foreign policy organization of the most prominent individual and corporate leaders in international affairs, CFR oversees multiple programs, including the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy (CSMD) program. CSMD program aims to increase global transparency and accountability amid worldwide corruption problems that result in more than $1 trillion in criminal proceeds flowing annually into Western banks, real estate, and luxury goods. With an end goal of promoting more stable and prosperous societies, the CSMD program studies how different countries across the world enforce the rule of law, with a special focus on efforts to combat corruption through implementing judicial, law enforcement, and bureaucratic reforms. The CSMD program also analyzes the political and societal shifts happening in response to the globalization of the supply chain and how the emergence of new technologies impacts foreign policy, popular uprisings, and even counterterrorism strategies.
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The former CEO of Oppenheimer Group, Inc., Stephen Robert also co-founded the Source of Hope Foundation, an organization dedicated to poverty relief. In addition to founding Source of Hope, Stephen Robert is a former chancellor of Brown University and a significant benefactor of the institution.
A private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, Brown University features a strong economics and business curriculum with a focus on training the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. The University offers more than 30 entrepreneurship-oriented class choices for undergraduate students. Students have the chance to follow their passion by exploring the entrepreneurial process in a variety of fields, such as medicine, the arts, social enterprise, and sustainability. With a focus on staying on the leading edge of thought and social change, some of the Brown entrepreneurship classes include Justice, Gender and Markets; Computer Science for Social Change; and Critical Perspectives on Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S. To emphasize its commitment to education in the field of entrepreneurship, Brown recently approved a new undergraduate certificate in entrepreneurship. The new program will be jointly overseen by the School of Engineering and the University’s Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship. |
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