Robert "Skipp" Orr is the former President

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 of Boeing

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 Japan

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, and former Vice President

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 of Motorola

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's European Affairs Division. At Motorola he also served as Vice President and Director of Government Relations, and also Government Relations Director for Nippon Motorola in Tokyo

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. In November 2006, Boeing announced that Orr was retiring as President effective March 2007.

Orr graduated from Florida Atlantic University

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 in 1976 with a bachelor's degree

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 in history

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. He subsequently earned a master's degree

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 in government from Georgetown University

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, and his doctorate

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 in political science

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 from Tokyo University.

He has lived in Japan for the past 16 years and is fluent in Japanese

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Orr is Chairman of the Panasonic Foundation in the U.S. and was a major fundraiser for the Obama 2008 presidential campaign. He has been nominated by President Obama to serve as Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank

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