Robert Reich
Professor, Politician
1946 –
Who is Robert Reich?
Robert Bernard Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.
Reich is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was formerly a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. He has also been a contributing editor of The New Republic, The American Prospect, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
Reich is a political commentator on programs including Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CNBC's Kudlow & Company, and APM's Marketplace. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century, and The Wall Street Journal in 2008 placed him sixth on its list of the "Most Influential Business Thinkers".
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- Born
- Jun 24, 1946
Scranton - Also known as
- Robert Bernard Reich
- Professor Robert B Reich
- Parents
- Spouses
- Clare Dalton
(1973 - 2012)
- Clare Dalton
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College
( - 1968) - Juris Doctor, Yale Law School
- University College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
Philosophy - Politics
- Economics
- John Jay High School
- Yale University
- Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Harvard University
- Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Lived in
- Scranton
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on July 23, 2013
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