Gregory Robinson

33-Year Veteran of NASA, Former Director, James Webb Space Telescope
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Robinson received recognition for his exceptional efforts. In honor of his achievements, Robinson was named to TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022 and EBONY’s 2022 Power 100 lists, and is a recipient of the TIME100 Impact Award. He was named 2022 Federal Employee of the Year and received the 2022 Distinguished Presidential Rank Award, one of the highest awards bestowed upon career senior executives by the President of the United States of America. His talents were also recognized by Columbia University, which recruited him to the faculty of the School of Professional Studies, where he now lectures on information and knowledge strategy and leading large, complex projects.

Prior to overseeing the Webb Space Telescope, Gregory Robinson’s roles at NASA ranged from leading 114 missions for the Science Mission Directorate to being intricately involved with the 21 shuttle launches following the Columbia Shuttle accident. Robinson joined NASA in 1989, after graduating from HBCU  Howard University with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, joining the slim ranks of Black professionals at the agency. His against-the-odds path to the highest levels of NASA began as the ninth of eleven children born to tobacco sharecroppers in segregated rural Virginia. Although Robinson had a notable talent for math and science, a football scholarship paid his way to Virginia Union University, where studied mathematics before transferring to Howard.

Over the course of 33 years at NASA, Robinson’s jobs included Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs, where he was responsible for more than 100 science missions; Deputy Center Director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Deputy Chief Engineer, and Deputy Assistant Administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National and Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service. He also spent 11 years in various leadership positions at NASA’S Goddard Space Flight Center.

Robinson’s professional accolades include being named 2022 Federal Employee of the Year, the NASA Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award (2007), the NASA Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award (2013) and 2022 Distinguished Presidential Rank Award. He was also a finalist in ‘Management Excellence” for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal.

In addition to undergraduate degrees from Howard and Virginia Union, Gregory Robinson holds an M.B.A. from Averett University and was a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard. He is a past faculty member at the George Washington University, Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering.

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Taking On Your Own Moonshot

A Nasa-Inspired Approach To Leading Innovation In Any Organization

From Sharecroppers’ Son To Time’s Most Influential People List

Managing Global Teams In Turbulent Times

Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm7GK391LN0
Greg Robinson 5 Minute Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOsUmEu51EE
TIME100 Impact Awards: Gregory L. Robinson Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs9asU2y9Pg&t=147s
Gregory Robinson - The Impressive Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope | The Daily Show

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"Not only was he flexible and easy to work with, but Greg took a special interest in meeting with our students, which provided a once-in-a-lifetime learning and networking opportunity."

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University of Michigan