Peter M. Robinson is the Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's video series program Uncommon Knowledge. After graduating summa cum laude in English from Dartmouth College, Robinson studied politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University. He then spent six years in the White House, serving as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush (1982–83) and as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan (1983–88). He wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall!”

After the White House, Robinson attended the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and graduated with an MBA in 1990. Robinson then spent a year at Fox Television, New York, reporting to Rupert Murdoch, and another year with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, where he served as the director of the Office of Public Affairs, Policy Evaluation, and Research. Robinson joined Hoover in 1993. In 2005, Robinson was elected to serve as a Trustee of Dartmouth College. Robinson has published numerous essays and interviews in the New York Times, Red Herring, Forbes ASAP, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review Online. He is the author of How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA. He is the editor of Can Congress Be Fixed?: Five Essays on Congressional Reform.

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