"Speaking Truth to Power"

GSPP Faculty

Robert Reich

Professor of Public Policy

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Areas of Expertise/Interest:

  • Industrial policy
  • Jobs and employment policy
  • Leadership and social change
  • Macroeconomic policy
  • Social and Economic Policy

Biographical Statement:

Robert B. Reich has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written ten books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet; and his most recent book, Reason. Mr. Reich is co-founder and national editor of The American Prospect magazine. His commentaries can be heard weekly on public radio’s “Marketplace.”

In 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel Vision Foundation Prize, by the former Czech president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2002, Reich ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts.

He has been a professor at Brandeis University and a member of the faculty of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Robert Reich

Phone: (510) 643-4266
Office: 354 GSPP Addition
Email: rreich@berkeley.edu


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