Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is a professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator from the United States. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and he was Secretary of Labor in President Bill Clinton’s cabinet from 1993 to 1997.
Reich has been the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy since January 2006.
He formerly worked as a lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and as a professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
He has written 18 books, including the best-sellers The Work of Nations, Reason, Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, and Aftershock, which have been translated into 22 languages. Beyond Outrage, a best-selling e-book, and The Next Economy and America’s Future.
Reich married Clare Dalton, a British-born barrister, in Cambridge, UK, in 1973; they divorced in 2012. The couple had two kids during their marriage: Sam, an American producer, director, writer, actor, and performer, and Adam, a sociology professor at Columbia University.
Clare Dalton: What does Robert Reich’s ex-wife do for a living?
Clare Dalton is an excellent American attorney and legal expert who formerly served as a law professor at both Havard and Northeastern Universities.
