Rob is currently serving as an Advisor to the Afghanistan Competitiveness and Innovation Project.

Prior to this, Mr. Henning was working on the two-year Rwandan National Innovation and Competitiveness project—he managed the financial services sector. The challenge had been to design and to implement a sustainable strategy for financing the investment needs of industry clusters within the Rwandan economy.

Before joining the OTF Group Rob was an economic analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he focused on pricing issues in the domestic textile industry. He also worked for the Peace Corps in West Africa; he supervised micro-credit and small enterprise development in Benin and Guinea-Conakry.

Rob earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from The McDonough School of Business, at Georgetown University, as a John F. Connelly scholar. Robert Henning also earned a B.A. from the University of Vermont with a double major in Economics and French.