Robert Reich
Born: 1946-06-24 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Last Class as Self
2024
- What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates as Self - Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Co-Founder, Inequality Media
- Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation? as Themself
- The Borking of America as Themself
2023
- This One Thing Would Increase Wages By $300 Billion as Themself
- Busting the “Paid What You’re Worth” Myth as Themself
2020
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump as Self - Sec. of Labor, 1993 - 1997
2019
- Game Changer as Self - Guest
2018
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
- Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom as Robert Reich
2017
- Saving Capitalism as Self- Presenter
2016
- Money Monster as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- A Dangerous Idea as Himself
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Love & Taxes as Sheldon S. Cohen
2014
- At This Hour with Kate Bolduan as Self
2013
- Inequality for All as Self
2010
- Conan as Self - Guest
2009
2007
- Fired! as Self
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
2002
- The Century of the Self as Self
2001
- The Clinton Years as Self
1989
- The Simpsons as Robert Reich (voice)