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Robert Reich

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Known Credits
26

Gender
Male

Birthday
June 24, 1946 (80 years old)

Place of Birth
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

Robert Reich

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.

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Acting

2025The Last Classas Self
2024What's Next? The Future with Bill Gatesas Self - Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Co-Founder, Inequality Media
2024Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation?as Themself
2024The Borking of Americaas Themself
2023Busting the “Paid What You’re Worth” Mythas Themself
2023This One Thing Would Increase Wages By $300 Billionas Themself
2020America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trumpas Self - Sec. of Labor, 1993 - 1997
2019Game Changeras Self - Guest
2018Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroomas Robert Reich
2018Firing Line with Margaret Hooveras
2017Saving Capitalismas Self - Presenter
2016A Dangerous Ideaas Himself
2016Money Monsteras Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbertas Self
2015Love & Taxesas Sheldon S. Cohen
2014At This Hour with Kate Bolduanas Self
2013Inequality for Allas Self
2010Conanas Self - Guest
2009Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hooveras Self
2007Fired!as Self
2003Real Time with Bill Maheras Self
2002The Century of the Selfas Self
2001The Clinton Yearsas Self
1996The Daily Showas Self
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brienas Self - Guest
1989The Simpsonsas Robert Reich (voice)

Production

2017Saving Capitalism...Writer