Officers, Honorary Fellows, Executive Council, and Committees
We are most proud that for over 30 years, SASE movers and shakers have greatly increased awareness of socio-economics throughout the world.
OFFICERS

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D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World
Sigrid Quack is Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and Professor of Comparative Sociology at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Previously, she was Leader of the Research Group on Institution Building across Borders at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and for many years a Senior Researcher at the WZB Social Science Center Berlin. She has been a visiting fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE); the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Providence; the École Normal Supérieure Cachan; and St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge.
Sigrid has written widely on globalization and institutional change, transnational governance, professions and expertise, as well as previously on the comparative analysis of capitalism, gender relations, labour markets and employment systems. Among other publications, Sigrid has co-edited two volumes with Marie-Laure Djelic on Transnational Communities (Cambridge University Press) and Globalization and Institutions (Edward Elgar). She has published articles in Accounting, Organizations and Society;Annual Review of Sociology; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Global Policy; Organization Studies; Revista de Administração de Empresas; Review of International Political Economy; Socio-Economic Review and Theory and Society. Her most recent German book (co-edited with Schulz-Schaeffer, Shire and Weiß) explores forms and regulations of transnational work and labour markets (Transnationale Arbeit, VS Springer). Sheis currently working on two major projects: organized creativity and intellectual property rights in pharma and music; and imagined pathways to global cooperation in transnational governance.
Sigrid Quack has been a member of SASE since 2006. She is a co-organizer of Network D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World, has served on the Executive Council since 2014, on the SER Best Prize Committee in 2016 and 2018 and on the Diversity Committee in 2019.
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Nina Bandelj is Professor of Sociology, Equity Advisor to Dean in Social Sciences and Co-Director of Center for Organizational Research at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines the social, cultural and emotional influences on economic phenomena, globalization, and postsocialism. She is the (co)author or (co)editor of six books and multiple articles. Her most recent book is Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (with F. Wherry and V. Zelizer, 2017). Bandelj serves as one of the editors of Socio-Economic Review, is past Chair of Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and on Executive Councils of the ASA, Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics and RC09 of International Sociological Association.

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. Her research has been published in Poetics, Contemporary Music Review, and Curator: The museum journal, among others.


Jacqueline O’Reilly is full Professor of Comparative HRM at the University of Sussex Business School and Co-Director for the ESRC £8 million investment in the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (digit-research.org) (2020-24).
She is the UK lead on the Horizon 2020 EUROSHIP project on social protection in Europe (euroship-research.eu) (2020-23). Previously, she coordinated EU STYLE: Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (www.style-research.eu) (2014-17) and was UK lead on the EU NEGOTIATE project (www.negotiate-research.eu) (2015-18).
Her most recent research focuses on the digital transformation of work, labour market policy and international comparisons of gender, ethnicity and labour market transitions across the life course.
She completed her doctorate at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on an Anglo-French comparison of employment practices in the banking sector. She worked for ten years at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany, and at Sciences Politiques in Paris, London, Manchester and Brighton Universities in the UK.
In 2000 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a visiting research fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Wirthschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftes Institut (WSI), Dusseldorf.
She has served on the editorial board of the BJIR, Socio-Economic Review, and Work, Employment and Society where she was also Chair of the editorial board. She was elected twice to the Executive Council of SASE. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her distinguished contribution to the field of interdisciplinary research.
She has been consulted by HM Treasury, Full Employment Team and the UK Cabinet Office Open Innovation Unit on equal pay and youth employment. She is an Evaluation Rapporteur for the European Commission Horizon 2020 research programme, was invited as an advisor to the ILO Work4Youth programme funded by The MasterCard Foundation, and was an evaluator on two occasions for the German Excellence Initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (€151 million investment).
She lives in Hove, UK with her two teenage sons where she enjoys living by the sea, watching Nordic Noir and discovering whether youth music today is better than that of the 1980s.
Researchgate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacqueline_Oreilly
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6223-154X
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
The Executive Council is SASE’s official policymaking body. It currently consists of 22 members, each elected for a term of three years, and convenes once yearly at SASE’s annual meeting to make decisions and nominations that govern SASE’s everyday functioning as well as its future.
ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE — AMSTERDAM 2021
Sigrid Quack (chair)
Zophia Edwards
Paola Perez-Aleman
Len Seabrooke
Karen Shire
Olav Velthuis
NETWORK OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Jason Jackson (chair)
Michelle Hsieh
Monika Krause
PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE
Nitsan Chorev (chair)
Jackie O’Reilly
Julimar da Silva Bichara
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Ekaterina Svetlova (chair)
Caroline Arnold
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Marcin Serafin
Elizabeth Thurbon
MEMBERSHIP AND DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
Sébastien Lechevalier (chair)
Katherine Chen
Felipe González López
Caroline Ruiner
EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Roberto Pedersini (chair)
ALICE AMSDEN BOOK AWARD
Leslie McCall (chair)
Gernot Grabher
Matthew Amengual
Margarita Estevez-Abe
SER BEST ARTICLE PRIZE COMMITTEE
Zsusanna Vargha (chair)
Elizabeth Gorman
Aldo Madariaga
WORKING GROUP ON GREENING
Virginia L. Doellgast (co-chair)
Dave Elder-Vass (co-chair)
Pranav Menon
Cornelia Storz
AD-HOC FINANCE COMMITTEE
Mari Sako (chair)
Nina Bandelj
Yuri Biondi
Annelies Fryberger
Patricia Zraidi
NEWSLETTER EDITORS
Annelies Fryberger (faculty editor)
Laura Adler (chief editor)
Melike Arslan
Javier Baquero
Florencia Labiano
Gábor Scheiring
Jacob Bromberg (coordinator)
WOMEN AND GENDER FORUM
Dorottya Sallai (founding chair)
Sarah Ashwin
Chiara Benassi
Virginia L. Doellgast
Jacqueline O’Reilly
Caroline Ruiner
SER REVIEW COMMITTEE
Dorothee Bohle (chair)
Bruce Carruthers
Kathryn Hochstetler
2021 Local Organizing Committee
Olav Velthuis (chair)
Dave Elder-Vass (Greening advisor)
SER Nomination Committee
Sigrid Quack (chair)
Bruno Amable
Heather Haveman
Cathie Jo Martin
Jackie O’Reilly
HONORARY FELLOWS
Robert Boyer, Karin Knorr Cetina, Amitai Etzioni, John Gardner*, Anthony Giddens, Albert O. Hirschman*, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Donald MacKenzie, Jane Mansbridge, Renate Mayntz, Marino Regini, Mari Sako, Fritz Scharpf, Amartya Sen, Herbert Simon*, Neil Smelser*, Robert Solow, Wolfgang Streeck, Richard Swedberg, Kathy Thelen, Lester Thurow*, Viviana Zelizer
*deceased