Robert Hodam has served as a US Army Captain, a fry cook in Disneyland, an aerospace engineer, a bartender at Harrah’s Club Lake Tahoe, an oil field roustabout, and an alternate energy consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, Asian Development Bank, the US Agency for International Development, Standard Oil, the US Congress, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, and others. Mr. Hodam also served as CEO of the International Center for Economic Growth, a non-profit professional association of more than 400 macroeconomic policy institutes in over 100 countries. A graduate of Stanford University in chemical engineering, Robert Hodam holds patents in polymer chemistry and is widely published in technical papers. Mr. Hodam has worked in or traveled to 64 countries and now lives with his wife of 40 years in Elk Grove California.