Robert S. Weil, II, a Montgomery, AL, cotton merchant, was elected 2008 president of Cotton Council International (CCI), the National Cotton Council’s export promotions arm.
Weil is CEO of Weil Brothers-Cotton, Inc. He is a former NCC delegate and serves on the NCC’s Doha Strategy Task Force, International Trade Policy Committee and Farm Policy Development Task Force, among others. He also served as president of the American Cotton Shippers Association in 2003-04 and president of the Atlantic Cotton Association in 1992. He earned a B.S. degree at Dartmouth College and completed an advanced management program at Harvard Business School.
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