Robert L Grenier is chairman of the advisory board at ERG Partners, a financial advisory and cohnsulting firm. Before joining ERG Partners, Grenier served as Managing Director for Kroll, Inc.

He retired from the CIA in 2006, following a 27-year career in the CIA's Clandestine Service. Grenier served as Diretor of the CIA Counter-Terrorism Centre (CTC) from 2005 to 2006, coordinated CIA activites in Iraq from 2002 to 2004 as the Iraq Mission Manager, and was the CIA Chief of Station in Islamabad, Pakistan, before and after the 9/11 attacks.

Previously, he was the deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, and also served as the CIA's chief of operational training. He is credited with founding the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division. Grenier is now a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and speaks and writes frequently on foreign policy issues.