Robert Reich
Known For
Acting
Born
1946-06-24 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He was formerly a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century, and in the same year The Wall Street Journal placed him sixth on its list of Most Influential Business Thinkers. He has published 18 books which have been translated into 22 languages, including the best-sellers The Work of Nations, Reason, Saving Capitalism, Supercapitalism, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, and a best-selling e-book, Beyond Outrage. He is also board chair emeritus of Common Cause and writes his own blog about the political economy at Robertreich.org. The Robert Reich–Jacob Kornbluth film Saving Capitalism was selected to be a Netflix Original, and debuted in November 2017, and their film Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. In 2015, Reich and Kornbluth founded Inequality Media, a nonprofit digital media company. Inequality Media's videos feature Reich discussing topics relating to inequality and power primarily in the United States, including universal basic income, labor rights protection, the racial wealth gap, affordable housing, and gerrymandering.
Most Known For
The Simpsons
as Robert Reich (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Conan
as Self - Guest
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
Game Changer
as Self - Guest
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom
as Robert Reich
Money Monster
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
as Self - Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Co-Founder, Inequality Media
At This Hour with Kate Bolduan
as Self
The Century of the Self
as Self
Inequality for All
as Self
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
as Self - Sec. of Labor, 1993 - 1997
Saving Capitalism
as Self - Presenter
Fired!
as Self
Love & Taxes
as Sheldon S. Cohen
A Dangerous Idea
as Himself
Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover
as Self
The Last Class
as Self
The Clinton Years
as Self