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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Robert Weissbourd

Robert Weissbourd

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program

Robert Weissbourd is a nonresident senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program and president of RW Ventures, LLC, an economic development firm. Weissbourd has been a frequent public speaker and guest lecturer on a broad range of urban markets, education, housing, business and economic development issues. He has also testified on these issues before federal, state and local legislatures.

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Expertise

Cities; climate and energy economics; economic development; financial services; housing

Background

Current Positions
President, RW Ventures
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
Board of Directors, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
Chair, CNT-Energy
Board of Directors, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Member, Pattern Recognition Systems, LLC
Member, Leveler, LLC

Past Positions
Vice-President, Shorebank Corporation
Partner, Hartunian, Futterman & Howard, Chtd.
Acting Chairman, Executive Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, City Colleges of Chicago District No. 508
Visiting Committee, University of Chicago Law School
Expert Advisory Committee, Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors (Chicago)
Advisory Committees, Initiative For a Competitive Inner City
Organizer, past Director and President, Crossroads Fund
Organizer, Co-Chair, PROCAN (Progressive Chicago Area Network)
Boards of Directors, Odesta Corporation
Steering Committees, Productive Chicago; Altgeld Institute
Emergency Hearing Officer, Chicago Board of Election Commissioners
Public Affairs Committees, Council of Lawyers

Education

University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1979
Yale University, B.A., 1976, Political Science


Contact Information

bob@weissbourd.com

312.332.8183

202.797.6105
Brookings Office of Communications

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