Robert D. Sloan  Since April, 2003, Robert Sloan has been Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Entergy Corporation (an integrated energy company headquartered in New Orleans). 

Prior to joining Entergy, Mr. Sloan was Vice President and General Counsel of GE Industrial Systems, a worldwide industrial and electrical products company, headquartered in Plainsville, Connecticut.  From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Sloan was managing partner of the McKenna Long Aldridge office in Brussels, Belgium where he specialized in international transactions, EU environment activities and international arbitrations.  Prior to practicing law in Washington, DC, from 1984-87, Mr. Sloan headed the Sovereign Credit Management Division at the First National Bank of Chicago, where he supervised the restructuring and refinancing developing country debt. 

Mr. Sloan has also served (1) as General Counsel to the Multinational Force and Observers, the international peacekeeping force between Egypt and Israel under the 1979 Camp David Accords (1981-84); (2) in the Legal Advisers Office of the Department of State in the area of nuclear non-proliferation and later economic and military assistance (1977-81); and (3) as General Counsel to the Minority of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (1973-77). 

Mr. Sloan holds a BA degree from the University of Michigan (1969) and a law degree from Harvard Law School (1972).  His wife, Dauphine, is a professor of French and International Development at Tulane University.  Their children, Alexandra (24), Caroline (23), and Edward (20) have attended primarily public schools in various cities in the United States and abroad.