Board of Directors

Nils Moe
Treasurer

Nils Moe is executive director of Stichting Funder Forum, a global network of philanthropic organizations working to accelerate a just and equitable clean energy transition. He leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen strategic alignment and collaboration across the philanthropic community, connect funders with actionable data and insights, and mobilize resources toward high-impact climate strategies.

Nils brings more than two decades of experience spanning climate and sustainability leadership, global network building, organizational development, and public- and private-sector climate action. Prior to joining Stichting Funder Forum, he served as lead for The Climate Pledge at Global Optimism, where he helped build and support a cross-sector community of more than 500 multinational companies and organizations committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions.

Previously, Nils served as CEO of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), leading a rapidly growing North American coalition of more than 250 cities and counties and 2,000 sustainability professionals representing over 100 million people. Earlier in his career, he served as climate lead to the Mayor of Berkeley, California, where he helped implement the city’s Climate Action Plan and was part of the team that developed Berkeley’s pioneering solar financing program, which established the model for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing.

Nils has taught Organizational Psychology and Sustainable Management at the graduate level. He co-founded two mission-driven nonprofit organizations, and worked as a management consultant advising nonprofit and private-sector organizations.

Robert C. Orr
Member

Dr. Robert C. Orr (Bob) is director of the Global Policy Institute and a professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) School of Public Policy (SPP). In addition, he serves as special advisor to the UN secretary-general on climate change, and is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. 

Bob previously served as dean at the UMD School of Public Policy from 2014-2025. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was assistant secretary-general for strategic planning in the Executive Office of the United Nations secretary-general from 2004 to 2014. Bob was the principal advisor to the secretary-general and led major initiatives on climate change, sustainable energy, women’s and children’s health, counter-terrorism, post-conflict peacebuilding, institutional reform and multi-stakeholder governance.

He joined the United Nations from Harvard University, where Bob was executive director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

Bob has served in senior posts in the government of the United States, including deputy to the United States ambassador to the United Nations and director of global affairs at the National Security Council in the White House, where he was responsible for peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs. He is fluent in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

Julia Robertson
President

Julia Robertson is president of the Robertson Foundation for Government (RFG), a nonprofit, nonpartisan, family foundation that prepares the next generation of globally engaged U.S. public service leaders. As senior executive, she oversees operations, strategic planning, board functions, grantmaking, university partnerships, programs, and finances, including formulating and administering a $2.5M annual budget, monitoring P&L, and liaising with the investment team.

Julia is also an independent filmmaker and producer, whose work spans documentary and fiction film. She holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts, where her focus was collaborative art and community engagement. Julia is drawn to creative projects that bring overlooked stories to light, spark public conversation, and inspire action. 

Based in Berkeley, CA, Julia served eight years as a commissioner on the city’s Civic Arts Commission. Currently she is board treasurer at the Berkeley Film Foundation, and sits on the board of Wild Projects, a San Francisco-based arts organization dedicated to social practice art projects. Julia is also a member of the advisory board of UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. 

This background combining experience in the arts and storytelling, philanthropy, nonprofit governance, and civic engagement informs Julia’s interdisciplinary, creative approach to supporting public service leadership.

Olivia Robertson-Moe
Secretary

Olivia Robertson-Moe is a third-generation descendant of Charles and Marie Robertson, carrying forward their commitment to public service leadership in her role as RFG board secretary and as special projects manager on the foundation’s lean operations team, handling data management, event logistics, and other responsibilities that keep the RFG wheels turning.  

Olivia received her Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs with a concentration in Global Public Health from George Washington University. She completed research and program internships addressing the environment and renewable energy with Women’s Earth Alliance and Boundary Stone Partners, and spent six months studying in Argentina, which furthered her interest in the intersection of health, social, economic, and environmental issues in Latin America.

Following graduation, Olivia served as a program officer in the Child Protection Unit at Partners of the Americas, where she supported the technical and operational implementation of projects to combat child labor and human trafficking and promote human and labor rights in Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Mexico. 

Olivia is also a certified nutritional therapy practitioner, founder of [R]evolve Primal Health, and producer of the substack The (Fun)ctional Health Kitchen. 

Robin Renee Sanders
Member

Dr. Robin Renee Sanders, a former senior career U.S. diplomat, is currently CEO of the FEEEDS Advocacy Initiative & FE3DS, LLC, an advisory firm, which focus on Africa policy, business, investment, and trade strategies, particularly in the energy, aviation, ICT, and housing sectors.

As a career diplomat, she served as U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and the Republic of the Congo, and as Africa director at the White House National Security Council (NSC), along with postings to Senegal, Namibia, and Sudan. Dr. Sanders led work on policy issues ranging from political and economic good governance, elections, democracy, and education & health development to business, investment, and trade on behalf of the U.S. Government (USG).

Dr. Sanders has extensive work and expertise in the security area. In Nigeria, she and her team worked on key security issues related to the surge of Boko Horam along with handling challenges in the country’s conflict-prone Niger Delta Region, including the kidnapping of Americans. During her stint as NSC Africa director and special assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the State Department, Dr. Sanders worked on many challenging security matters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Sudan.

Her postings as Ambassador to Nigeria and the Republic of the Congo provided the opportunity to serve as the U.S. Representative to ECOWAS and CDEAO, the West and Central African governing bodies for political, economic, security, monetary, and regional trade issues. As Ambassador to the Congo, Dr. Sanders led the USG team assisting the Congo in its resolution of the country’s international debt crisis and created, with UNDP, one of the country’s first post-civil war internet centers for small businesses and entrepreneurs, leading to her receiving the Medal of Honor from the country’s President, and recognition by the UNDP.

Dr. Sanders has received six State Department Superior & Meritorious Awards and the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Civilian Honor Award, which is the U.S. military’s highest civilian award. She also is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the College of National Security Leaders, and the National College of Collegiate Scholars for her doctoral and research work.

As CEO of FEEEDS & FE3DS, LLC, Dr. Sanders has received numerous accolades for her advocacy work on global issues, for advancing the US-Africa business trade relationship, and for her scholarly research. As a scholar in data and information systems, Dr. Sanders is also a senior scientist consultant for Gallup Poll. She has worked extensively with U.S. and African small businesses on U.S.-Africa trade and on their public and marketing communications having been the State Department’s first Africa Public Diplomacy Director.

Dr. Sanders is currently a member of the USG’s Africa-Trade Advisory Board for USTR; a senior advisor to the global issues-focused international non-profit Concordia; and served previously as chair of U.S. EXIM Bank’s Africa Advisory Council. She also is on the advisory board of Robert Morris University’s Innovation Center and the advisory board of three small Nigerian firms in the energy, renewable and ICT sectors.

Dr. Sanders received her doctorate degree in Information Systems and Communications from Pittsburgh’s Robert Morris University (RMU). She holds Master’s degrees in International Relations/African Studies and ain Communication, both from Ohio University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Mass Media from Hampton University. Dr. Sanders  has taught at the university level on several occasions, including two years at the National Defense University’s (NDU) Eisenhower College, six months as the “Rooney Visiting Scholar” at RMU, and time as a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Independent Colleges and Universities (CIC) Wilson Fellows Scholar Program. She is the author of two books: The Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprises and Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria.

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