Robert ManfredSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Since 1998, Robert D. Manfred, Jr. has served as Executive Vice President of Labor Relations for Major League Baseball.  His primary responsibility is Baseball’s collective bargaining relationship with the Major League Baseball Players Association.  He served as the chief negotiator for the Clubs in both 2002 and 2006.  Mr. Manfred is also responsible for the collective bargaining relationship with the World Umpires Association and the human resources function in the Commissioner’s Office in New York.

Mr. Manfred graduated from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1980.  He received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review.  While at Harvard, he wrote a Note concerning contribution limitations under the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.  Following law school, Mr. Manfred served as a clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro in the District of Massachusetts.

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