Robert C. Perry

Ambassador Perry is vice president at The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), where he manages CCA’s conferences and programs to foster understanding of business opportunities in Africa and to build relationships for future partnerships. He also served as managing editor of CCA’s March 2009 report “The United States and Africa –Policy Recommendations from the American Private Sector for the Obama Administration.”

Bob joined CCA in 2003 after a career in the U.S. Foreign Service at the Department of State, where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs (July 2001-December 2002) following an assignment as U.S. Ambassador to the Central African Republic. His previous assignments in Latin America and Africa included political analysis and reporting, trade promotion, and management of the USG interagency counter-narcotics program for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ambassador Perry is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Foreign Service Association, and has served on several NGO boards. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Wittenberg University, and a M.A in International Relations from American University.