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Robert Reich
Actor, WriterBorn June 24, 1946 (79 years)
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.
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.
Robert Reich Filmography
| 2024 | Almost Popular · as Student |
| 2023 | America Is Sinking · as Navy Seal |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (TV Series) |
| 2015 | Love & Taxes · as Sheldon S. Cohen |
| 1992 | Made in America? · as Narrator |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Robert Reich (voice) |
| 1953 | Panorama (TV Series) · as Labor Secretary Designate |
| 2025 | The Last Class · as Self |
| 2024 | What's Next? The Future With Bill Gates (TV Series) · as Self - Former U.s. Secretary Of Labor, Co-Founder, Inequality Media |
| 2020 | America's Book of Secrets: Special Edition (TV Series) · as Self - Former U.s. Secretary Of Labour |
| 2020 | The ReidOut (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Tooning Out The News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Velshi (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | Game Changer (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2019 | This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | Breaking News (TV Series) · as Robert Reich |
| 2017 | Saving Capitalism · as Self- Presenter |
| 2017 | Laura Coates Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | The Beat with Ari Melber (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | Money Monster · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2016 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | Adam Ruins Everything (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | A.M. Joy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist |
| 2014 | PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes · as Self |
| 2014 | At This Hour with Kate Bolduan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | Inequality for All · as Self |
| 2013 | At Berkeley · as Self - Robert Reich |
| 2013 | All In with Chris Hayes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | The Reagan Presidency (TV Series) · as Self - U.s. Secretary Of Labor |
| 2012 | Occupy Los Angeles · as Self |
| 2012 | PoliticKING with Larry King (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2012 | Moyers & Company (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2012 | America's Book of Secrets (TV Series) · as Self - Former U.s. Secretary Of Labor |
| 2011 | Erin Burnett OutFront (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Piers Morgan Tonight (TV Series) · as Self - Former Labor Secretary |
| 2010 | Conan (2010) (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | Overheard (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2010 | The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | The Ed Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Morning Joe (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | The One Percent · as Self - Us Secretary Of Labor 1992-96 |
| 2006 | CollegeHumor Shorts (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | This Week (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Anderson Cooper 360 (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann (TV Series) · as Self - Author |
| 2002 | The Century of the Self (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | CNN Tonight (TV Series) · as Self - Correspondent |
| 1998 | LateLine (TV Series) · as Robert Reich |
| 1997 | HARDtalk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Hannity & Colmes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Hardball with Chris Mathews (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | To the Contrary (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1985 | Larry King Live (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | PBS News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1954 | Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan (TV Series) · as Self - Economy Panelist |