W. Robert de Jongh

Robert de Jongh builds the strategies, institutions, and financing architectures that make infrastructure resilient, capital purposeful, and growth inclusive — especially when complexity makes all three feel impossible. He serves as Deloitte's Ports Leader for the Americas and a leader in the firm's Infrastructure & Resilience practice, working with port authorities, terminal operators, and governments on the capital, digital, and resilience decisions that will shape economic competitiveness for decades — while also leading wider infrastructure and resilience work and driving national efforts to accelerate transformation, innovation, and workforce development across the maritime industrial base. Across more than 30 years — spanning multilateral development banks, conservation institutions, Fortune 100 boardrooms, emerging market governments, and global consulting — Robert has applied market-based solutions to complex, intractable global challenges, developing innovative approaches that drive impact, scale, and business value for all stakeholders. That throughline runs from his earliest work at WWF and The Nature Conservancy, where he pioneered private sector engagement and innovative finance as tools for conservation at scale, to founding one of the world's first technology platforms in Silicon Valley designed to create a global social capital market, connecting investors, opportunities, and impact data in a single exchange. It continued at the Asian Development Bank and SNV, where he designed institutional infrastructure for impact investing and inclusive growth across Latin America, Asia, and Africa — spanning renewable energy, water, housing, agribusiness, industrial parks, and technology — and carried through to Brunswick, where he helped Fortune 100 C-suites translate sustainability strategy and stakeholder complexity into the kind of narrative and action that shapes enterprise value, builds institutional trust, and defines what responsible leadership looks like in practice.