Richard Reeves (British author)
| Richard Reeves | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian, writer, philosopher, politician, journalist, political theorist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Wadham College (B.A., 1990) University of Warwick (PhD, philosophy, 2012) |
| Subject | History, philosophy, liberal politics |
Richard Reeves is a British writer and scholar and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Reeves is Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings, working principally on issues related to intergenerational mobility, inequality and social change. In 2014, he published a Brookings Essay, Saving Horatio Alger, along with a video in which he used Lego bricks to illustrate levels of social mobility in the U.S. In May 2014, he appeared in a Daily Show segment satirizing how the complaints about the plight of the poorer members of the top 1% distracts from solutions to social mobility.
Until 2012 Reeves was Director of Strategy to Deputy Prime Minister` Nick Clegg. Previously he had been director of the London-based think tank Demos. Reeves has held positions including Director of Futures at The Work Foundation, a British non-profit organisation, Society Editor of The Observer, Economics Correspondent and Washington Correspondent of The Guardian, and policy adviser to Frank Field when he was Minister for Welfare Reform.
Reeves has published two books, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (2007), a biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician, and Happy Mondays (2002) about job satisfaction. He co-authored The 80 Minute MBA (2009) with John Knell, a condensed business management book. He is a former European Business Speaker of the Year.
Reeves appears regularly on radio and television as a political commentator, and writes for a variety of publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Observer. He is also a regular contributor to the online 'Think Tank' section of the Wall Street Journal. In 2005, he co-presented the four-part BBC2 series, Making Slough Happy. He writes regularly in British newspapers and magazines on politics, well-being [4], work and character [5]. In 2008 he argued in The Guardian that social-liberals [a majority of Lib Dem members] should not be involved with the Liberal Democrats, but the Labour Party [6].
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