Foreign Affairs, Investment Luminary Takes Tiedemann Role

Tom Burroughes

10 March 2020

, the US wealth management house, has named foreign policy luminary and international investment expert Robert Hormats as a managing director.

Hormats joined Tiedemann five years ago. During his career, Hormats built an investment expertise and knowledge of trade policy, intellectual property protection, protection of trade secrets, international environmental issues and global energy.

As a member of the external investment advisory committee for Tiedemann Advisors and its Zurich-based partner, Tiedemann Constantia, he was able to shape the firms’ investment strategy.

With more than 50 years of experience as an international policy and business leader, Hormats has served in five US presidential administrations, including as Deputy US Trade Representative with the rank of Ambassador, and Senior Economic advisor to Dr Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Dr Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council staff in the White House.

His most recent government position was with Secretary Clinton as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment from 2009 through 2013. In between his time in government, Hormats spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to the level of vice chairman, Goldman Sachs (International), where he acted as the firm’s lead spokesman on the economic and financial outlook for the global economy. Most recently, he worked as vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, a New York-based strategic international consulting firm.

Tiedemann oversees about $22 billion in assets under advisement with over $2.8 billion in impact investments.