Robert T. Grieves is the FounderandChairman of Hamilton Advisors Limited, a strategiccommunications firm based in Hong Kong. Following a 12-year career in journalism forTheTimes(London) andThe Economist(both in Beijing), andTimemagazine andForbes(both inNew York), he has been a top-tier communications specialist since 1989.

His communications career has included seven years at the global public relations firm of Burson-Marsteller, five years as head of Marketing and Communications, Asia, for Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, three years as head of Global Communications for The Bank of NewYork, and four years as head of global media relations and financial communications for the international insurance firm, ACE. Most recently he served as President, Hong Kong for Edelman, a global public relations firm that has won numerous awards in the Asia-Pacific region.

Robert graduated from Hamilton College magna cum laude with a B.A. in English Literature and East Asian History and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a concurrent certificate from Columbia’s East Asian Institute.

He is a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; Chairman of the Council of Public Relations Firms of Hong Kong (CPRFHK); and a member of the Hike for Hospice Organising Committee of the Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care (SPHC).