Robert L. Mallett, Esq.
The Peter P. Mullen Visiting Professor of Law
Georgetown University

Robert L. Mallett is the Peter P. Mullen Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University. Before coming to Georgetown, he served as Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Public and Senior Markets Group, a division of United Health Group.

Immediately prior to joining United Health Group, Mr. Mallett served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Policy & Public Affairs, Pfizer Inc.  During the course of his tenure at Pfizer, Mr. Mallett had direct supervision of Pfizer’s worldwide groups encompassing policy and economic research, international affairs and multilateral institutions, philanthropy and corporate giving, alliance development, corporate responsibility, and corporate communications and media relations.  He also chaired Pfizer’s Intellectual Property Task Force and co-led the company’s efforts on enhancing global access to medicines.

Prior to joining Pfizer in April 2001, Mr. Mallett served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce where he oversaw the administrative and policy operations of a number of key federal agencies, including, among others, the International Trade Administration, Economic Statistics Administration, Minority Business Development Agency, Census Bureau, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  By appointment of the President, he served on the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and was a member of the 3-member Federal Steel Loan Guaranty Board.   

Prior to his federal executive service, Mr. Mallett was a shareholder and associate attorney at two major law firms in Washington, D.C.  He also served as City Administrator and Deputy Mayor for the District of Columbia under Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly, and Legal Counsel to former United States Senator Lloyd Bentsen.  He has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  He served as a law clerk to the Honorable John R. Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
    
Mr. Mallett is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administrators, and Treasurer, Accordia Global Health Foundation.  He is also on the boards of Fisk University and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.  Mr. Mallett is a past chairman of the U.S.-South Africa Business Council, former chair of the Board of Directors of the International Trachoma Initiative, former chairman of the Board of Governors of Wesley Theological Seminary, and immediate past co-chair of the Board of Directors of Appleseed Foundation.  He is a former member of the boards of Medical Education for South African Blacks, JHPIEGO (a Johns Hopkins University affiliate organization specializing in serving the health needs of families in developing countries), and North General Hospital in New York’s historic Harlem community.  
    
Mr. Mallett is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College (1979) and received his law degree from Harvard University in 1982, where he was Projects Editor of the Harvard Civil Right-Civil Liberties Law Review.  He resides in New York City.