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. He also served on President Barack Obama’s economic transition advisory council.
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 also contributed to The New Republic, The American Prospect (of which he is also chairman and founding editor), Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Reich and Kornbluth created Inequality Media, a nonprofit digital media firm, in 2015. The films on Inequality Media include Reich discussing inequality and power issues, particularly in the United States, such as universal basic income, labor rights protection, the racial wealth gap, affordable housing, and gerrymandering.
Robert Reich education: Where did Robert Reich go to college and high school?
In Cross River, New York, he attended John Jay High School. Reich attended Dartmouth College, where he obtained a National Merit Scholarship and majored in History, graduating with an A.B. summa cum laude in 1968 and obtaining a Rhodes Scholarship to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University College, Oxford.
