Rachel F. Robbins will be our guest speaker for the Amy and Brian Schorr Family Luncheon Speaker Series on Thursday, April 24th, 2014. Lunch will be served at 12:30 in Furman Hall Classroom 210, 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY, 10012 and Rachel F. Robbins’ presentation will begin at 12:45. Please email leadershipprogram@nyu.edu to RSVP for this event.
Rachel F. Robbins served as Vice President and General Counsel of the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and was as a member of its Management Group from 2008-2012. Ms. Robbins joined the IFC with three decades of experience in legal and financial services, including extensive experience in corporate governance and in managing global teams through periods of change.
Between 2006 and 2008, Ms. Robbins was Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Euronext, joining the NYSE just before the historic transatlantic merger with Euronext. From 2003 to 2004 she was General Counsel of Citigroup International and served as a consultant to Citigroup in 2005 and 2006. Ms. Robbins was a founding partner of an international management consulting company focused on the legal industry from 2001-2003.
She spent most of her career at JP Morgan & Co. Incorporated (“JP Morgan”), which she joined in 1981. During her 20 years at JP Morgan, she was part of the management team building JP Morgan’s securities and investment banking business and built its global legal and compliance department. She became General Counsel of JP Morgan Securities Inc. in 1986, Deputy General Counsel and Head of the Legal Department of JP Morgan in 1992 and General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of JP Morgan from 1996 to 2001. She started her legal career as a banking associate at Milbank, Tweed, and Hadley & McCloy in 1976.
Ms. Robbins is currently a director of Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Ltd, a UK- listed company focused on investing in financial services in Africa, FINCA Microfinance Holdings Company, LLC, a global microfinance institution in 23 countries, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law (“NYU”). She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ms. Robbins holds a JD from NYU, where she was Order of the Coif and Managing Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature from Wellesley College. She lives in New York with her husband Rick ( JD ’75) and has two grown sons, Jonathan and Jeremy, and a grandson, Seba.