Officers, Honorary Fellows, Executive Council, and Committees
OFFICERS


French National Center of Scientific Research

P: Accounting, Economics, and Law
Yuri Biondi is tenured senior research fellow of the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research of France, IRISSO – University Paris Dauphine. Graduate of the Bocconi University of Milan (DES), of the University of Lyon (DEA, PhD), of the University of Brescia (PhD) and of the University of Paris I Sorbonne (HDR), he is founding editor of the Journal “Accounting, Economics and Law: A Convivium”. Yuri has been working with the SASE since 2005, as mini-conference organiser and research network convener for “Accounting Economics and Law.”
He was chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Committee (FASC) of the American Accounting Association (AAA) from August 2011 to August 2013. His research program combines economics with law and accounting, focusing on the relations between individuals, organisations and institutions in economy, polity and society. His research interests include economic theory, dynamic systems analysis, corporate governance and social responsibility, financial and prudential regulation, accounting theory and regulation, and governmental accounting and finances.

Università degli Studi di Milano

Roberto Pedersini is professor of Economic and Labour Sociology at the University of
Milan, where he is head of the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He graduated
with a degree in economics and obtained a PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social
Research, with a dissertation on privatisation processes in central and eastern Europe
(Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland).
His main fields of research are comparative industrial and employment relations as well as
the interaction between agency and social and political institutions in shaping economic
processes, with a specific focus on the role of collective action. He has participated in and
coordinated several research projects since the late 1990s and published many journal
articles, essays and monographs on these topics. He regularly participates in national and
international conferences to present papers on his current research.
He is chief editor of the Italian scientific journal Stato e mercato, an established reference
for socio-economic studies in Italy, and part of the Editorial boards of other journals,
including Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research.
As an expert in industrial and employment relations, he has participated in various
initiatives and projects of Italian and international organisations, including notably the
European Commission, the International Labour Office, the European Economic and
Social Committee, the European Foundation of the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions, and the European Trade Union Institute.
He has been a member of SASE since 2012. He was the local organizer of the 2013 Milan
SASE Annual Meeting and served in the Executive Council between 2014 and 2016. He
contributed to the organization of the SASE Early Career Workshop (ECW) since its first
edition in 2016 in Berkeley, and chaired the ECW Committee between 2018 and 2023.

University of California, Irvine

Nina Bandelj is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is an economic sociologist interested in how relational work, emotions, culture and power influence economic processes and has published widely, including in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Nature Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Social Forces and Socio-Economic Review. Her books include From Communists to Foreign Capitalists (2008); Economic Sociology of Work (2009); Economy and State (with Elizabeth Sowers, 2010); The Cultural Wealth of Nations (with Frederick F. Wherry, 2011); Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged (with Dorothy Solinger, 2012); and Money Talks (with Frederick F. Wherry and Viviana A. Zelizer, 2017). Her newest book on The Emotional Economy of Parenting is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.
Bandelj is Past President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and elected member of the honorary Sociological Research Association. She was Vice-President of the American Sociological Association, longtime and first woman editor of Socio-Economic Review and the inaugural associate vice provost for faculty development at UC Irvine.
STAFF

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Annelies Fryberger holds a PhD in sociology from the EHESS, where she was a member of the Analysis of Musical Practices team at the IRCAM and the Center for Research on the Arts and Language (CRAL) of the EHESS. She wrote her dissertation on peer review in contemporary art music in France and the United States. She held postdoc positions with the DAAD, the LabEX CAP, and the New School, and she continues her research on artistic practices and evaluation. The book based on her dissertation, Juger le singulier (Symétrie) was published in 2023. Her research has been published in Poetics, Contemporary Music Review, and Curator: The museum journal, among others.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
The Executive Council is SASE’s official policymaking body. It consists of 24 members, each elected for a term of three years, and convenes twice yearly to make decisions and nominations that govern SASE’s everyday functioning as well as its future.
Aldo Madariaga – UDP (University of Diego Portales)
Andrea Mennicken – LSE (London School of Economics)
Antonio Botelho – Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arianna Tassinari – University of Bologna (Unibo)
Barbara Kiviat – Stanford University
Caroline Arnold – City University of New York
Chiara Benassi – King’s College London (KCL)
Elizabeth Gorman – University of Virginia
Elizabeth Thurbon – UNSW (University of New South Wales)
Elsa Clara Massoc – University of St. Gallen
Kathryn Ibata-Arens – DePaul University
Kevin Young – University of Massachusetts
Kim Pernell – University of Texas at Austin
Leonard Seabrooke – Copenhagen Business School
Lucio Baccaro – Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Marta Castilho – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Matthias Thiemann – Sciences Po
Megan Tobias Neely – Copenhagen Business School
Michelle Hsieh – Academia Sinica
Nana de Graaf – VU Amsterdam
Timur Ergen – Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Tine Hanrieder – London School of Economics (LSE)
Valeria Pulignano – KU Leuven
Virag Molnar – The New School
2025 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Virginia Doellgast, Chair
Antonio Botelho
Kathryn Ibata-Arens
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Gerhard Schnyder
2025 PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE
Nina Bandelj, Chair
Roberto Pedersini
Lucio Baccaro
2025 NETWORK OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Arianna Tassinari, Chair
Barbara Kiviat
Andrea Mennicken
2025 MEMBERSHIP AND DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
Marta Castilho, Chair
Caroline Arnold
Aldo Madariaga
2025 NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Kim Pernell, Chair
Valeria Pulignano
Nana de Graaf
2025 EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Timur Ergen, Chair
Chiara Benassi
Victor Chen
Rosie Collington
Joshua Cova
Donato Di Carlo
Tine Hanrieder
Julian Jürgenmeyer
Hyunji Kwon
Daniel Muegge
Elena Obukhova
Paola Perez-Aleman
Megan Tobias Neely
2025 ALICE AMSDEN BOOK AWARD
Elizabeth Thurbon, Chair
Kimberly Kay Hoang
Michelle Hsieh
Jason Jackson
Maite Tapia
Other members TBC
2025 SER BEST ARTICLE PRIZE COMMITTEE
Elsa Clara Massoc, Chair
Leonard Seabrooke
Matthias Thiemann
2025 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
2025 SER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Kevin Young, Chair
Mari Sako
Juliet Schor
HONORARY FELLOWS
Robert Boyer, Karin Knorr Cetina, Amitai Etzioni*, John Gardner*, Anthony Giddens, Jayati Ghosh, Mark Granovetter, María Ángeles Durán Heras, Albert O. Hirschman*, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Donald MacKenzie, Jane Mansbridge, Renate Mayntz, Marino Regini, Mari Sako, Fritz Scharpf, Juliet Schor, Amartya Sen, Herbert Simon*, Neil Smelser*, Robert Solow, Wolfgang Streeck, Richard Swedberg, Kathy Thelen, Lester Thurow*, Viviana Zelizer.
*deceased