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Rob Reich
Philanthropy & Education
American political scientist focusing on applied ethics, educational inequality, and philanthropy's role in democratic governance and science and technology policy.
Biography
Rob Reich (born c. 1969) is an American political scientist and professor at Stanford University. He holds the McGregor-Girard Professorship of Social Ethics of Science and Technology and has served as director of Stanford's McCoy Center for Ethics in Society and as co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He also serves as an associate director for Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
A political theorist by training, Reich’s work centers on applied ethics, educational inequality, and the role of philanthropy in the public sector. His recent research addresses governance of frontier science and technology and topics in liberal democratic theory. In 2024–25 he served as a Senior Advisor to the United States AI Safety Institute.
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Books by Rob Reich
Just Giving
Just Giving (2018) asks what attitudes and policies democracies should have toward individuals who give money for public purposes, arguing that mass giving should aim to decentralize power in producing public goods such as the arts, education, and science.