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Robert Adams is the pen name of Robert Charles Bloom, born September 18, 1959 in New York City. He moved to London in 1992, where he met his future wife Hilary at a tennis club, just 3 weeks later. Within 5 years, they had married, bought a house in riverside Richmond, and were raising 2 children, Alexander and Stephanie.
Robert describes his life as a whirlwind of interests and careers. Reading the book "Barrons Guide to the Ivy League Colleges" as a 14-year-old, he set his heart on Yale, where he studied in a remarkable 17 different departments before graduating in 1981 with distinction in Applied Mathematics. Guided by Professor John Hartigan, esteemed for his work in hierarchical cluster analysis, Robert's senior thesis on "Geographical Patterns of Disease in the United States" caused a sensation for the clarity of its conclusions. Winning a National Cancer Institute Award for graduate school funding, Robert continued to Harvard, graduating with a Masters in 1983. Robert's work at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute led to his recruitment by Johnson & Johnson, where he worked as a lead clinical statistician between 1983 and 1986.
Recruited by Merrill Lynch in 1986 to bring mathematical approaches to financial strategies, Robert began a 30-year financial career across numerous disciplines, including mortgage-backed securities arbitrage, bond options trading, risk management consulting, portfolio management, product development, and the investigation of financial trading frauds. Between 2001 and 2004, he was the Global Head of Foreign Exchange Risk Management for Citigroup, the largest foreign exchange trading bank in the world. Known for his meticulous writing and the ability to simplify difficult concepts, Robert credits Edward Tufte, a Yale professor, for his groundbreaking work in the visual display of quantitative information, in addition to the rigour of his first 5 years in management consulting. During Robert's tenure in consulting, at PwC and EY, he was responsible for the investigation of several major trading frauds, as well as for the design and implementation of the world's first operational risk capital model at a German bank.
In his retirement years, Robert has volunteered at 2 charities and become a pro bono careers consultant for a southwest London school, utilising his training in the Highlands Ability Battery. He has practiced Iyengar yoga for 10 years, complemented by recent interests in pádel and rowing.
"Notes from My Psychedelic Years" was written over a 7-year period. It is a memoir of a man battling depression and searching for himself, told as 98 very short stories centred around 3 psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands. Robert characterises his style as a fly-on-the-wall view of a man not sure why he is doing what he is doing, told with lightness, levity, and grace.
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