Sir Oliver Robbins KCMG CB London

Olly joined Hakluyt in 2023 and leads our EMEA business.

He joined from Goldman Sachs, following over two decades as a British civil servant. He has advised four prime ministers, during a career spanning economic policy and the 2008 financial crash, public service reform and spending, corporate finance on the public/private boundary, counter-terrorism and geopolitics. He has also led international negotiations covering the G8, 5-Eyes Intelligence Alliance, and EU withdrawal.

In 2019, Olly was appointed the first ever Heywood Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government in the University of Oxford.