Rob Reich is the McGregor-Girand Professor of Social Ethics of Science and Technology at Stanford University. He is associate director of the Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. His scholarship in political theory engages with the work of social scientists and engineers. His most recent books are System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (with Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein 2021) and Digital Technology and Democratic Theory (edited with Lucy Bernholz and Hélène Landemore 2021). He has also written widely about philanthropy, including Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (2018) and Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values (edited with Chiara Cordelli and Lucy Bernholz 2016). Rob is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Walter J. Gores award, Stanford’s highest honor for teaching. He was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas before attending graduate school. He is a board member of the magazine Boston Review and at the Spencer Foundation. He helped to create the global movement #GivingTuesday and serves as chair of its board.