Robert Reich

Robert B. Reich is the Carmel P. Friesen Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. In the field of Business & Economics, his work focuses on industrial policy, labor and employment, poverty and inequality, macroeconomic policy, politics, and social and economic policy. Reich received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, M.A. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and J.D. from Yale Law School. He has served in three national administrations, most notably as U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. At Berkeley, he taught popular courses until his retirement, having instructed over 40,000 students.

Reich is the author of eighteen books on the American political economy, including the bestsellers The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It (2020), Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015), The Common Good (2018), Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future (2010), Supercapitalism (2007), The Future of Success (2000), Locked in the Cabinet (1997), and The Work of Nations (1991), the latter translated into twenty-two languages. He co-created the award-winning documentary Inequality for All (2013) and the Netflix original Saving Capitalism (2017). Reich is co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute, Inequality Media—a platform whose videos have garnered over 600 million views—and co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His honors include the Vaclav Havel Vision Foundation Prize (2003) for pioneering economic and social thought, recognition by Time Magazine as one of the ten most successful cabinet secretaries of the century (2008), and fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Through his scholarship, writings, and public engagement, Reich has profoundly shaped discourse on economic inequality, labor markets, and democratic policy.

Professional Email: rreich@berkeley.edu