Robert A. Davis  is the director of the Confucius Institute in Chicago and the manager for World Language and International Studies in Chicago Public Schools, home of the largest K-12 Chinese language program in the United States. He lived in China for three years and has led nine cultural immersion programs to China. In 2002, he received a full scholarship to study at Peking University.

Davis has served as president of the Illinois Chapter of the National Association for Asian and Pacific American Educators and is the education co-chair of Chicago-China Sister Cities Committee. He has raised over $1 million to support the teaching of Chinese language and culture in the city of Chicago.