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 professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and professor of social and economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University. He has also been a contributing editor of "The New Republic", "The American Prospect" (also chairman and founding editor), "Harvard Business Review", "The Atlantic", "The New York Times", and "The Wall Street Journal".