Rob Mosbacher is Chairman of the Board of Mosbacher Energy Company, a family-owned company headquartered in Houston, Texas. He served as the ninth President and Chief Executive Officer of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) from 2005 to 2009, an independent agency of the U. S. Government that has facilitated $30 billion in investments in the developing world. OPIC was consolidated into the new U. S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), where he serves as Chair of the Development Advisory Council, a group of outside experts who report to the Board of the DFC.

He serves on the Boards of the Center for Global Development, the National Archives Foundation, and Devon Energy Corporation, a large, independent oil and gas producer. He received a law degree in 1977 from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University in 1973.