Rob Richie is Senior Advisor of FairVote, an organization he co-founded in 1992 and led as CEO from 1992-2023. He has helped advance major electoral reforms, including the Fair Representation Act in Congress, the National Popular Vote plan, ranked choice voting in Alaska, Maine and more than 50 cities, and voter access changes like voter preregistration, automatic voter registration, and remedies in voting rights cases. His thought leadership contributions include invention of the partisan voting index to project federal elections and Alaska’s Top Four Primary that combines all-candidate primaries with ranked choice voting.
He is a frequent media source and has been a guest on NPR’s All Things Considered, On the Media and Fresh Air, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox and NBC. His writings have appeared in all major daily newspapers and in 11 books, including as co-author of Every Vote Equal and Whose Votes Count. He has addressed conventions of the American Political Science Association, National Association of Counties, National Association of Secretaries of State, and National Conference of State Legislatures. He is a graduate of Haverford College, where he serves on its Corporation. He and RepresentWomen CEO Cynthia Terrell are parents of Savanna, Lucas and Rebecca.
