Robert Danton Reischauer (born 1941) is an economist and was one of the two public trustees of the Medicare and Social Security Trust Fund.

He is a nationally known expert on the federal budget, health reform, Medicare, and Social Security.

He began his tenure as the second president of the Urban Institute in February 2000 and left that role in 2012.

[2] Reischauer serves on the boards of several educational and nonprofit organizations, including the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

He frequently contributes to the opinion pages of the nation's major newspapers, comments on public policy developments on radio and television, and testifies before congressional committees.