Rob Storch

The Honorable Robert P. Storch served until January 2025 as the Presidentially-appointed
Senate confirmed (PAS) Inspector General (IG) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). As
the DoD IG, he led a term of more than 1,850 auditors, evaluators, lawyers, criminal and
administrative investigators, and support professionals in more than 50 offices worldwide in
conducting robust programmatic and investigative oversight of DoD programs and personnel.
He also served as the Congressionally-designated Special IG overseeing U.S. assistance to
Ukraine, and as the Lead IG for overseas contingency operations related to countering ISIS in
Iraq and Syria and furthering U.S. policy goals in Afghanistan. He has been active in the
leadership of the DoD and federal oversight communities, including chairing both the Defense
Council on Integrity and Efficiency, bringing together oversight entities from across the DoD
enterprise, and the Technology Committee of the government-wide Council of the Inspectors
General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), advancing oversight of the use of new and emerging
technologies and their effective utilization in oversight work. He was a member of CIGIE’s
Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the more
than $5 trillion in U.S. pandemic relief programs and spending, and he served on the CIGIE
Executive Council, helping to set direction and policy for the federal IG community.

Rob previously served as the first PAS IG at the National Security Agency (NSA), the Deputy IG
and Whistleblower Ombudsperson for the U.S. Department of Justice, and for some two dozen
years as a federal prosecutor at two U.S. Attorney’s Offices and, between them, the Public
Integrity Section of the Criminal Division at DOJ. He has worked on many international
programs on behalf of the U.S. Government and lived and worked abroad for two years as a
Resident Legal Advisor for DOJ in Ukraine, assisting in the development of measures to address
official corruption. Rob returned to Kyiv to provide technical assistance on behalf of the U.S. in
the drafting of its anti-corruption legislation, and thereafter on multiple occasions to assist with
its implementation. Rob worked earlier in his career as a litigation associate at the law firms of
Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., and, later, Bond, Schoeneck & King, in Albany, NY,
and as a law clerk for the Hon. William D. Keller on the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, CA.

In the fall of 2025, Rob taught both a seminar on global anti-corruption as an Adjunct Professor
at the Georgetown University Law Center and a seminar on litigation drafting as a Professorial
Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University School of Law. He obtained his B.A.,
magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from
Columbia Law School.