Robert Séamus Macpherson

Robert Macpherson has been a writer, aid worker, and career infantry officer in the U.S. Marines with service in Vietnam, Iraq, and Somalia. After retiring from the Marines, he joined the humanitarian organization CARE, where he spent fifteen years directing global risk mitigation for staff and vulnerable populations and led humanitarian response missions worldwide.

As a humanitarian worker, he negotiated and coordinated with non-traditional powers such as, paramilitary forces and an assortment of armed local groups and militias who controlled territories where humanitarian organizations wanted to assist. These included the Taliban in Afghanistan and local militias throughout central and east Africa such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and Somalia. Throughout this period, he conducted kidnap negotiations in Zimbabwe, southern Sudan, Haiti, Afghanistan, and Iraq. This work resulted in his own abduction in Somalia.

He has testified before the United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations and served as an advisor to the National Security Council and the US Department of State for humanitarian affairs and interventions. As a US Marine, he holds four awards for valor.

Stewards of Humanity is his debut book. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife and service dog, Blue. Connect with Bob at rsm@robertseamusmacpherson.com.