Robert Gordon is a Senior Fellow at the Better Government Lab and the executive vice president for state initiatives at the Recoding America Fund, a new philanthropic initiative focused on building state capacity. Most recently, Robert served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Mobility at the Domestic Policy Council of the White House, handling education, housing, anti-crime, and anti-poverty initiatives, among others.

Robert's prior roles include Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Director of the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Acting Deputy Director and Executive Associate Director at the Office of Management & Budget during the Obama-Biden Administration, senior official at the New York City Department of Education, senior aide on Capitol Hill, and law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Outside government, he has served as Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Finance at the College Board and, as a Skadden Fellow, as law guardian at Legal Aid in the Bronx.

Robert's work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Politico. He has a J.D. from Yale and a B.A. from Harvard.