Robert Curvin currently serves as an organizational development and urban policy consultant to several businesses and nonprofits.

Dr. Curvin was most recently president of the Greentree Foundation. He was previously vice president, communications, of the Ford Foundation; director, Urban Poverty Program, at the Ford Foundation; dean, Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, at the New School for Social Research; member of the editorial board of the New York Times; associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College; community development specialist at Rutgers University; director of the Rutgers Community Action Training Program; director of the Harlem Leadership Training Institute; and caseworker and supervisor for the Essex County Welfare Board.

Dr. Curvin is presently board chair of the Fund for the City of New York, a member of the boards of Humanity in Action, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the RAND Corporation, and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. He was previously a trustee of Princeton University; a member of the National Academy of Public Administration; a director of the Revson Foundation; a trustee of Channel 13 Public Television; a member of the advisory committee of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University; and a director of Broad National Bank. He has also been a research associate at the Brookings Institution and a consultant to the National Affairs Division of the Ford Foundation.

He has written widely on issues of urban politics, economic development and social policy.

Dr. Curvin received his BA from Rutgers University, his MSW from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work and his PhD in politics from Princeton University. Prior to attending college, he served as an officer in the 101st Airborne Artillery. He is married to Patricia Hall Curvin, a retired high school English teacher. They have two children and two grandchildren.