Robert Wolf

Robert Wolf may refer to:

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Robert Wolf (writer)

Robert Wolf (born c. 1944) is an American writer, journalist, and entrepreneur. His nonfiction writing focuses on everyday life, frequently that of farmers and other rural Americans.

Award

Wolf is past recipient of the Bronze Medal for radio commentary and the Sigma Delta Chi Award, both from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Personal life

Robert Wolf spent his formative years wandering the United States, searching for the "American Soul." As an adolescent his goal was to "work every job in the country, live in every town and city and have conversations with everyone."During the 1960s and 70s, Wolf hitchhiked and rode freight trains across country, while seeking out iconic American types. Poets & Writers wrote "he was a ranch hand in New Mexico, a journalist in Chicago, a teacher in an inner-city Brooklyn school and at a penitentiary, as well as a doctoral candidate in philosophy, a dabbler in art, a hitchhiker and hobo."

Career

By 1987, having settled in Chicago, Wolf wrote a weekly column and features for the Chicago Tribune. In 1988 he married singer and artist Bonnie Koloc and the couple moved to Nashville, where Wolf organized a writing workshop for the homeless. In 1990, Wolf, along with Steven Meinbresse, established Free River Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Initially intended as a publishing vehicle for the homeless, Wolf expanded the press's mission to "create a collective autobiography of America.

Robert Wolf (business)

Robert Wolf (born March 8, 1962) is a former President and Chief Operating Officer of UBS Investment Bank, as well as Chairman and CEO of UBS's Group Americas division.

He was a member of UBS's Group Executive Board from 2008-2010. Mr. Wolf is a friend of United States President Barack Obama.

After serving as a major contributor and fundraiser for the Obama 2008 US presidential campaign, Wolf was appointed a member of President Obama's President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness from 2011-2013, and served as a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2009-2011. Wolf served on the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Border Infrastructure Task Force in 2012, and in June 2013, the White House appointed Wolf to the President’s Export Council.

The name 32 Advisors, LLC, pays homage to the number on Wolf's jersey when he played football at the University of Pennsylvania.

Biography

From 2002 to 2004, while at UBS, Wolf was Global Head of Fixed Income and previously, from 1998 to 2001, Global Head of Credit Trading, Research & Distribution.