Robert Kinloch Massie

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Rev. Robert Kinloch Massie (b. 1956) is an American author, Episcopal priest, and former anti-apartheid activist. He is the son of the famous author and journalist Robert K. Massie, and author Suzanne Massie.

He was educated at Princeton University, also taking a Master's degree in Divinity at Yale and a Doctorate in Business Administration at Harvard. He was born with haemophilia. In the process of learning to deal with his affliction, his parents began to study the history of the disease, leading to Robert Massie Sr.'s book on Nicholas and Alexandra, whose son Alexei also had haemophilia. His parents also documented his early trials in the book Journey.

The Rev. Massie's life improved considerably with modern treatment, such as synthetic Factor VIII. However, he was infected with HIV by a transfusion of contaminated blood before the danger was realized. Remarkably, he did not develop any symptoms, and has thus been the subject of studies into asymptomatic carriers of HIV.

He became an activist against apartheid in his student days. In 1998 he published "Loosing the Bonds : The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years" (Doubleday, 1998).

He ran for the post of lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1994, becoming the Democratic candidate by winning a statewide primary. He is a founding fellow of Ceres, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies.