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Robert L. Healy

Robert L. Healy has served on the CSM Board of Trustees since 1995. He and Jann Healy reside in La Plata.

Healy earned a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, all in political science. His academic fields include legislative behavior, public policy analysis and electoral politics. Hs is an adjunct professor of political science at American University and George Washington University School of Business.

Currently, Healy is a principal and senior director of the Wexler Group, which helps Fortune 500, trade associations and other clients impact public policy. Healy, a veteran political strategist, was previously an officer and vice president of ARCO, one of the nations’ largest energy companies. He has served several members of Congress, including former Secretary of the Treasury and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and the late former Vice President and Senator Hubert Humphrey. His political posts include former chairman of the Democratic National Convention’s National Finance Council, executive council chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, and co-director of Podium, Script, and Speeches for all Democratic National Party Conventions held since 1980.

Healy has been a presenter at numerous international meetings and universities, lecturing on public policy, political conventions, and American politics at Oxford University, United Kingdom and the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has participate din a number of Pacific-Rim global meetings, including the Asia Pacific Energy business Forum, the World Economic Forums, and has given major presentations at the Pacific Basin Economic Council and the pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s (PECC) annual sessions. He is a Board Director of US Asia-Pacific Council. He has participated in three APEC Energy ministerials, the APEC leaders meetings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Auckland, New Zealand, and numerous commercial trade missions to Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Japan.