Robert Bedford is a self-employed media producer, and the executive vice president of the New York-based Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, whose mission is to preserve and promote “the complex and centuries-old culture of the Sephardic communities of Turkey, Greece, the Balkans, Europe, and the United States.”

Bedford is the producer of the foundation’s documentaries and exhibitions and editor of all the books it has published since the 1990s.