Robert Tashjian

About

Robert Tashjian is a national security affairs fellow for the 2025–26 academic year and an attorney in the Office of General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency. At CIA, prior to his Hoover fellowship, he worked closely with lawyers from the US Department of Justice to protect classified sources of intelligence and methods of intelligence collection in criminal and civil legal matters.

Tashjian’s government service includes more than sixteen years as an attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he investigated and litigated complex securities fraud cases. Earlier in his career, he served as a deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County and was an associate at a Palo Alto law firm representing technology companies in Silicon Valley.

Tashjian, who previously taught legal research and writing at Stanford Law School, received his law degree from the University of California (Hastings) College of the Law in San Francisco and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.