Times disclosed that Blackwill's other clients include Serbia, China, and the Alfa-Bank in Moscow. Blackwill's firm previously had lobbying contracts, now expired, with the secular National Dialogue Party of Lebanon, the Confederation of Indian Industry, Dubai International Capital (the private equity firm of Dubai's ruler, Sheik Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum), and Eritrea, a nation the State Department has been threatening to designate a terrorist state. Departure from Barbour Griffiths Rogers On April 19, 2008, The Times of India reported that Blackwill was leaving the lobbying firm of Barbour Griffiths Rogers International to go to work as a senior fellow at RAND Corporation, one of the United States' premier think tanks. "I will be leaving BGR to join Rand Corporation in California, as senior fellow," said Blackwill. "I now feel the compelling need for sustained time to reflect and write about America's role in the world in this difficult and dangerous period." In September 2010, Blackwill rejoined the Council on Foreign Relations as the Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow. Punditry Relations with Pakistan On October 21, 2007, the New York Times reported on the "nightmare scenario" in Pakistan in the aftermath of the carnage after bombs exploded killing and wounding hundreds of supporters of Benazir Bhutto after her arrival in Pakistan. "We have to remember that the U.S. doesn't have much capability to affect internal developments" in Pakistan, said Robert Blackwill. "What I am struck by are the trends we see today: the North-West Province is ungovernable and a sanctuary for terrorists. The politics are fractured and deeply unstable, Musharraf is weaker, and the army is uncertain which way it will go." 2020 Election In 2020, Blackwill, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him." Memberships, honors, and awards Member of Executive Committee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Member of the Aspen Strategy Group of the Aspen Institute. Senior Fellow at the RAND Corporation Board member of the Nixon Center. Awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit, by