Robert B. Reich
Professor, author and former Labor Secretary
Robert B. Reich is an American professor, author and political commentator who served as US Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
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American Born 1946 in Scranton, United States
About Robert B. Reich
Robert Bernard Reich was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1946. He held posts in the Ford and Carter administrations, and later sat on Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Reich has taught for many years. He lectured at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1981 to 1992 and was a professor at Brandeis University from 1997 to 2005. In 2006 he joined the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught his last class in spring 2023 and is now an emeritus professor. He has written many books, including Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, both of them best sellers. He also made a film called Saving Capitalism with Jacob Kornbluth, and it debuted on Netflix in November 2017. Reich co-founded Inequality Media and is the emeritus chair of the board at Common Cause, a watchdog organization.