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Before entering the private sector in 1990, Mark Robertson had a
strong and distinguished career on Capitol Hill. He spent more than
17 years in the Senate and House of Representatives as a senior
staff member to various senators and congressmen.
During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Mr. Robertson developed
significant experience in the areas of Senate and House political
and parliamentary procedure, as well as in the substance of
legislative and regulatory issues affecting international trade,
energy policy, national defense and intelligence,
telecommunications, financial services, and international relations.
Mr. Robertson provides strategic counsel to multinational
corporations, domestic and foreign industry associations/chambers,
and foreign national and state governments on all manner of issues
related to markets development and access, political positioning,
crisis management/avoidance, and issue management. In addition, he
has developed and executed federal and multi-state advocacy
campaigns on behalf of numerous multinational companies.
Mr. Robertson was a principal member of Mexico’s team lobbying the
Administration and Congress for passage of NAFTA and subsequently
served as an advisor in the successor USMCA Trade Agreement in
2017/2018. Since the early 1990s,
he has worked on many of the most challenging issues on the
bilateral, U.S.-Mexico agenda on behalf of various Ministries,
companies and industries in Mexico. In the private sector, he
served as strategic counsel and project coordinator for the largest
cross-border Mexican bank acquisition in the United States, and the
cross-border acquisition of a 41-state money transmitter, both of
which successfully closed.
Currently, Mr. Robertson is working extensively with numerous
Romanian interests in the public and private sectors in support of
foreign capital investment within the country and the region, most
recently in broadcast and digital media investments focused on
reinforcing the presence of free and fair news reporting. He
successfully worked with the Colombian government on specific
programs to improve efforts to counteract drug trafficking,
terrorism and kidnapping within the nation.
As the representative for several private companies in the Balkans,
he has helped establish partnering agreements with U.S.
multinational corporations, including those specializing in energy,
infrastructure, telecommunications, and television
broadcasting/distribution. Furthermore, he is involved in the
promotion of certain high-profile projects in the energy sector that
will directly impact regional and global energy security.
In the past, Mr. Robertson has also served as a strategic counsel to
the presidents and/or ministers of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela, Serbia, Romania, The
Gambia and others.
Mr. Robertson is Chairman and President of Ellaal Goldberg Corp., a U.S.
corporation providing for investments in broadcast, print and
digital news media in Eastern and Western Europe. He also
served as President for the European Institute for Risk,
Security and Communication Management. EURISC is a non-governmental
foundation focused on promoting dialogue, education, training and
research on major issues of national and international security. The
institute is based in Bucharest, Zurich and Washington, D.C.
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