Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner in April 2009
Born	(1943-04-17) April 17, 1943 (age 73) New York City, New York
Education	Oberlin College (1965) University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Journalist, Writer
Notable credit(s)	Squandering of America Everything for Sale
Spouse(s)	Sharland Grace Trotter (?-?) Joan Fitzgerald

Robert Kuttner (/ˈkʌtnər/; born April 17, 1943) is an American journalist and writer. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as an "authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement. He was a 20-year columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns in The Boston Globe and for the Huffington Post.

Kuttner is also one of five 1986 co-founders of the Economic Policy Institute, and currently serves on its executive committee. In 2007, Kuttner joined the liberalDemos research and policy center as a Distinguished Senior Fellow.

Kuttner was born in New York City. He attended Oberlin College, the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics.

He currently holds the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis, where he is a visiting professor of social policy. At different times throughout his career he has also taught at Brandeis, Boston University, University of Oregon, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Harvard's Institute of Politics. He has also been a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at UC-Berkeley, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Radcliffe Public Policy Fellow.