Richard V. Reeves

Richard V. Reeves is the founding president of the American Institute for Boys and Men (AIBM) and a non resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he was previously Director of the Center for Children and Families. Reeves is the author of several books, including the forthcoming "Yes, Boys Can!: Inspiring Stories of Men Who Changed the World - He Can H.E.A.L.", coauthored with Jonathan Juravich, which is intended to inspire boys to be confident and caring through the biographies of 50 fascinating men, past and present, in the fields of health, education, the arts, and literacy (HEAL). His previous book published in 2022 is Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to do About It”, a Book of the Year according to the New Yorker and The Economist, and included in Pres. Barack Obama's summer reading list for 2024. Inspired by his own experiences as a father and policy expert, Richard founded AIBM to bring awareness to the challenges facing boys and men today and to develop evidence-based solutions.Richard V. Reeves is the author most recently of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (Brookings 2022). He is also a regular a contributor to New York Times, The Atlantic, National Affairs, and other publications. His previous books include Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It (Brookings, 2016), All Minus One (with Jonathan Haidt), and John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic, 2007). Between 2010 and 2012, Richard was director of strategy to the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister. He has also been director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank, principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, among other roles. He is a former European Business Speaker of the Year. A former journalist on the Guardian and Observer newspapers, Richard earned a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.