Robert S. Rivkin

Mr. Rivkin has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for United Airlines Holdings, Inc. (‘‘United’’) since 2019, where he leads United’s legal department, including the corporate, securities, finance, commercial, litigation, government contracts, intellectual property, antitrust, environmental, employment and international groups. Mr. Rivkin is also responsible for security, facilitation, compliance, ethics and investigations.

Prior to joining United, Mr. Rivkin served as deputy mayor of the City of Chicago from 2017 to 2019, where he oversaw the implementation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s key priorities across city departments and agencies, focusing his efforts on economic development, job creation and retention and infrastructure. Prior to that, Mr. Rivkin served as counsel at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP from 2016 to 2017 and as Deputy General Counsel of Delta Air Lines, Inc. (‘‘Delta’’) from 2013 to 2016, where he was responsible for addressing governmental regulation and oversight in the U.S. and abroad, as well as litigation, antitrust, employment and real estate legal issues. Before joining Delta, Mr. Rivkin served four years as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2009 to 2013, after being nominated by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Rivkin was Deputy General Counsel of Aon Corporation and General Counsel of the Chicago Transit Authority. Mr. Rivkin also has worked in private law practice, as a federal prosecutor, for the British Parliament and at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.

Mr. Rivkin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School in Stanford, California, where he was an associate editor of the Stanford Law Review, and clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

Mr. Rivkin’s qualifications include his expertise in regulatory and legal matters across both the private and public sectors, his service in in-house roles with oversight of significant infrastructure-related investment and key legal matters, including security, safety, compliance and antitrust, and his experience in private practice advising clients on infrastructure, domestic and international business regulation and commercial litigation.