Yanan Guo is a full-time Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where she received her bachelor’s degree in sociology, translation and
media studies.
Kyoung Yong Kim is an Assistant Professor of Management at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include strategic human resources management, employee-organization relationships, leadership, and multilevel theory.
Huijie Li is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China. Her research area is mainly in the labor market, poverty, and social security.
Regina Lenz is a research associate at the Chair of Economic and Social Geography at Heidelberg University. She studied geography, history, economics, as well as English literature and philology at Heidelberg University and wrote her diploma thesis on the effectiveness of a development approach in Bangladesh’s tannery sector.
Lilach Lurie is a lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Department of Labor Studies. She is also a faculty member at the Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel-Aviv University. Her research spans the fields of employment law, labor law, pension and retirement, industrial relations and social security. Lurie has a Ph.D. in Law from Tel-Aviv University.
Josefine Koebe is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate School at the University of Hamburg (UHH) and is a Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation (Germany) scholarship recipient. She holds a master’s degree in Economics from Berlin Humboldt University, a Bachelor of Science degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen, and a Certificat d’échange from Sciences Po Paris.
Neva Löw is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kassel in the Institute for Political Science. She holds a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Stiftung in Germany and is part of the Kassel based research group “Beyond Summer 15”.
Lizhen Zheng is an Associate Professor in the Law School at Fujian Normal University in China. She received her Ph.D. in international law in 2014 from Xiamen University Law School of China, and her dissertation subject was “The Reconstruction of Transnational Labor Regulation Regime Under the Theory of Reflexive Law.”
Prof. Lloyd Sachikonye received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1989 from Leeds University and has been based at the University of Zimbabwe since 1990.
He is the president of the board of employment promotion at Korea University, an advisor for the Center for People with Disabilities, and he has been working as a government official for the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK).
Carmen Sáez is currently a full professor of Labor Law and Social Security at Córdoba University (Spain) and was previously a professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain).
Elodie Béthoux is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay. She is a member of IDHES (Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Economie et de la Société) and a collaborator of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT).
Prior to becoming a Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell’s ILR School, Sean O’Brady finished his PhD thesis at Université de Montréal’s School of Industrial Relations. His dissertation, entitled “Negotiating Insecurity? A Comparative Study of Collective Bargaining in Retail Food in Canada, Germany, Sweden and the United States”, examined how employers and unions negotiate wages, scheduling arrangements, and employee benefits in food retail across four countries (Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the United States).
Jerôme Gautié is currently professor of economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where he also served as director of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Travail (Institute for the Social Sciences of Work) from 2009-2014, an Institute dedicated to the continuous training of union delegates.
Yuling Hao is a PhD student at Renmin University of China. She is part of the China Disability Institute at Renmin University of China, which is the first established Disability Institute in China.
Antonio Rodrigues de Freitas, Jr., is currently an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), Faculty of Law (FDUSP), where he lectures and researches with an emphasis on Labor & Employment Law, Human Rights, Social Protection of Migrants, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He holds a Law Degree (LL.B., 1981), Master’s in Labor Law (1987), and Doctorate (1992) from FDUSP.
Inbal Shlosberg-Sela is an Israeli social worker and labor activist. She holds an M.A. in Social work studies from Ben Gurion University (Israel), where her thesis had focused on revitalization processes within the social workers’ union in Israel.
Dario Azzellini is a political scientist (Ph.D. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 2010), a sociologist (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 2012), and a documentary film director.
Juan Liao is an associate professor in the School of Management at Capital Normal University, China. She also works for the Center for Labor Market at Beijing Normal University.
David Collings is Professor of Human Resource Management at Dublin City University Business School. He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield and the National University of Ireland, Galway and visiting positions at King's College London and Nanyang Business School, Singapore.
Ricardo Pereira is a Professor of Social and Labor Relations in the master´s degree program at University Center of the Federal District (UDF) and a Federal Prosecutor of the Public Ministry of Labor and Employment in Brazil – MPT. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 2003 - New Challenges in Labor and Employment Law - and his Master of Law at the University of Brasilia (UnB) in 1997
Carlotta Favretto is a PhD student at Marco Biagi Foundation and at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, conducting research on “Occupational Welfare and Company Networks.”
Ngan Collins is a senior lecturer in the School of Management, RMIT University, Australia. Ngan earned her Ph.D. in 2005 in international employment relations and HRM from the University of Melbourne. In 2005 and 2006, she was working as an international consultant for the International Labour Organisation’s ‘Factory improvement program’ project when she designed and delivered an HR module for Vietnam’s manufacturing sector.
Dr. Louise Floyd is an Associate Professor of Law at James Cook University and a Barrister to the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. She is the lead author of the forthcoming Cambridge Univerity Press book, Employment, Labour and Industrial Law in Australia.
Na Yoon Kim earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations in January 2017. Her research focuses on how positive social relationships form and function in organizations. Taking a multi-method approach that includes experimental and survey methods, Kim explores various social relationships existing in organizations, such as interpersonal, person-to-team, person-to-organization, and customer relationships, in order to understand how positive relationships foster organizational effectiveness.
Esra Sarioglu received her Ph.D. in Sociology at SUNY-Binghamton and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Gender Studies Division within the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Ankara University, Turkey. She also serves as vice-chair of the Women’s Studies Center at Ankara University.
Frank Kleemann is a Professor of the Sociology of Work and Organization at the University of Duisburg-Essen, and he is currently chairing the section on the sociology of work and industry of the German Sociological Association (DGS).
Mathieu Dupuis submitted his dissertation entitled Trade Unions Against Corporate Restructuring: A Study of Union Power in French and Canadian Auto Parts Manufacturers to the School of Industrial Relations, University of Montreal, Canada in March 2016.
Lisa Schulte is a PhD student at the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU) at the Business School of the University of Greenwich in London, United Kingdom.
Arka Chatterjea works primarily in the fields of economics of higher education and financial economics. He earned his B.Sc. (Mathematics) from St. Xaviers College, M.A. (Economics) from Tufts University, and M.A.-Ph.D. (Economics) from Cornell.
Marco Biasi is Professor of Comparative Industrial Relations Law and European Social Law at Bocconi University in Milan, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2013.
Yu has a Ph.D. in Management from the Institute of Work and Employment Research at MIT Sloan where she conducted dissertation research on organizational change in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and on the participation of immigrant workers in the union.
Professor David Gill is based at the University of Oxford, where he is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Roger Van Noorden Fellow at Herford College.
Francesco Seghezzi completed his Master of Arts degree in Political Philosophy from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, focusing his thesis on the political thought of Eric Voegelin.
Xia Li completed her Ph.D. in Human Resource Development from Nankai University in China, where she also served as an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior.
Pietro Manzella is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Marco Biagi Department of Economics, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Senior Research Fellow at the Association for International and Comparative Studies in the Field of Labor Law and Industrial Relations (ADAPT, www.adapt.it).
Nagase has served in governmental appointments such as the Special Committee on Council for Gender Equality at the Japanese Cabinet Office, the Japanese Tax Commission, and the Statistics Committee for the Japanese government.
Since 2005, Gerda van Roozendaal has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Dr. Peter Yane-hao Chen is a full professor of foreign languages and applied linguistics as well as international negotiations and interpretations at National Taipei University (NTPU) in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Dr. Xiaoyan Yuan is a post-doctoral scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, a visiting scholar at Renmin University of China, and a member of Chinese Women Economists.