Michael W. Robinson
Levick Strategic Communications

Michael W. Robinson is a trusted counselor and strategist to global C-Suite executives, elected officials, and financial market leaders. His focus includes corporate communications, strategy, and reputation leadership for public and private companies; crisis communications and regulatory-legal investigations and litigation; public affairs and legislative advocacy; corporate governance; and investor relations.

As the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Public Affairs and Policy Chief under Chairman Harvey Pitt, Mr. Robinson drove the development of the Commission’s policies and actions across a wide array of issues including Sarbanes-Oxley, Enron, and WorldCom.

Mr. Robinson subsequently led the communications initiatives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia in connection with Freddie Mac’s $6 billion accounting restatement. As Vice President of Friedman Billings Ramsey Group, Inc. – one of the U.S.’s 10 largest investment banks – Mr. Robinson directed all external and internal marketing and corporate communications.

Mr. Robinson also directed global communications for The Nasdaq Stock Market and the NASD. Other experience includes directing the communications efforts around the $98 billion Exxon-Mobil merger as part of Mobil’s communications team; acting as a spokesman for the Department of Justice; and working as a member of President George H.W. Bush’s communications team.

As a writer at The New York Times in the 1980s, Mr. Robinson was part of the investigative reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for stories on the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.