Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien joined Booz Allen’s board in 2025. Robert has deep expertise in U.S. national security, policy, and the defense industrial base. He is currently a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in the second Trump administration, following his service as U.S. national security advisor from 2019 to 2021.
Before serving as U.S. national security advisor, Robert was special presidential envoy for hostage affairs with the personal rank of ambassador, co-chairman of the U.S. Department of State Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan under both Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton, and a presidentially appointed member of the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee from 2008 to 2011. In 2005, O’Brien was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as a U.S. representative to the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Earlier in his career, O’Brien was a senior legal officer for the UN Security Council commission and a major in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve.
Robert is the co-founder and chairman of American Global Strategies LLC. He received his B.A. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles, and his J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law.
Robert is a member of the Compensation, Culture and People Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
