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Faculty and Staff

Jason Judd

  • Executive Director, Global Labor Institute

Anna Burger

  • Chair of the Board

Sarosh Kuruvilla

  • Academic Director, Global Labor Institute

Brian Wakamo

  • Research Support Specialist

Maria Mexi

  • GLI Visitng Fellow and Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor on Labor and Social Policy, Geneva Graduate Institute & TASC Platform

Sarah Krasley

  • GLI Visiting Fellow and founder of Shimmy Technologies

Kelly Fay Rodríguez

  • GLI Visiting Fellow and former Special Representative for International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of State (2022 – 2025)

Isabel Guerrero

Advisory Board

Anna Burger

  • Chair of the Board

Kalpona Akter

  • Founder and Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS)

Michael Bride 

  • Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility - Global Affairs at PVH Corp.

Sarah Dadush

  • Professor and Director, the Responsible Contracting Project, Rutgers Law School

Tenisha Elliott

  • Vice President, Sustainability Analyst, Responsible Investment Team, Columbia Threadneedle

Dan Fibiger

  • Head of Social, Labor and Human Rights, Gap Inc.

Jos Huber

  • Former Senior Policy Advisor, CSR, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Bruce Raynor

  • Principal, R&S Associates, LLC
  • Former President, UNITE HERE

Edgar Romney

  • Secretary-Treasurer, Workers United, SEIU
  • Manager, NY Metropolitan Area Joint Board, Workers United

Duncan Scott

  • Senior Vice President, Strategic Sourcing & Quality - New Balance Athletic Shoe

Inga Skippings

  • Organizational and Strategic Communications Consultant

Ruwan Subasinghe

  • Legal Director, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)

Anne Sutanto

  • Vice President Director, PT. Pan Brothers TBK

Jill Tucker

  • Labour Rights advocate, Former Head of Labour Rights Programme - Laudes Foundation

Research Network

GLI has a research network of faculty and experts.



Matthew Amengual, Associate Professor in International Business, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Sarah Ashwin, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, Department of Management, London School of Economics

Jinsun Bae, Assistant Professor in International Business, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University

Jennifer Bair, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia

Alex Covarrubias, Professor, El Colegio de Sonora

Martin Curley, Co-Director, Katalyst Initiative

Greg Distelhorst, Assistant Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Eli Friedman, Associate Professor, International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University ILR School

Pauline Jerrentrup, PhD scholar in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics, former ILR Cornell visiting fellow in September to October 2023.

Anne Lally, Co-Director, Katalyst Initiative

Chunyun Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, London School of Economics

Raymond Robertson, Professor, Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in Economics and Government, Department of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Texas A&M University