Université TÉLUQ

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay is  Director of the Center on Work-Life Articulation over the Lifecourse, and professor of labor economics, innovation, and human resources at the Téluq Université of the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. She was also appointed Canada Research Chair on the Knowledge Economy  (2002-2016). Her research interests include employment policies, clusters (multimedia, IT, and film sectors) working time and work-life balance, telework,  Coworking, self-employment, work organization, teamwork, and communities of practice. Professor Tremblay has been an active member of SASE for over twenty years, participating in all aspects of the organization. In addition to her work as a network organizer, she has also been a member of the Executive Council and the Local Organizing Committee for Montreal in 1997. “What I appreciate in SASE,” says Tremblay, “is the diversity of issues that are discussed, and the interdisciplinary nature of the debates.”

Over the years, she has been an invited professor at Université de Paris I Sorbonne, Université de Lille I, Université d’Angers, Université de Toulouse, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, HEC, Université de Liège in Belgium, the University of Social Sciences of Hanoi (Vietnam) and at the European School of Management.

Prof. Tremblay has published articles in many global peer-reviewed journals: Cities, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Personnel Review, New Technology, Work and Employment, Innovations, International Journal of Enterprise and Innovation Management, International Journal of Technology Management, Journal of Innovation Economics, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, etc. She has written many books on working time, parental leave, as well as textbooks in labour economics, sociology of work, and work organization.

Cornell University

Rosemary Batt

Rosemary Batt is the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work at the ILR School, Cornell University. She is a Professor in Political Economy and International and Comparative Labor and editor of the School’s flagship journal, the ILR Review. Her research focuses on global and comparative international studies of management and employment relations. Recent research focuses on the processes and outcomes of financialization and new forms of ownership—including private equity, franchising, outsourcing, and subcontracting of work. She specializes in low wage service industries, including healthcare, customer service and sales, restaurants and hospitality, and telecommunications.

Batt received her BA from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management, MIT. Her work has appeared in such journals as the ILR Review, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the European Journal of Industrial Relations, the Berkeley Journal of Industrial Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, The Journal of the British Academy, Work and Occupations, and International Journal of Human Resource Management. She is co-author with Eileen Appelbaum of Private Equity at Work (2014) and The New American Workplace; and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Work and Organization.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years. She is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA.  She has authored and/or edited 20 books and more than 200 scholarly articles. Recent books include The Making of a Catastrophe: Covid-19 and the Indian Economy (Aleph Books forthcoming 2022); When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy (Tulika Books and Columbia University Press 2021, co-edited); Women Workers in the Informal Economy (Routledge 2021, editor); Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India (Women Unlimited, New Delhi 2009); co-edited Elgar Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development (2014); co-edited After Crisis (Tulika 2009);  co-authored  Demonetisation Decoded (Routledge 2017); She has published more than 200 scholarly articles. She has received several prizes, including for the 2015 Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India; the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2011; the NordSud Prize for Social Sciences 2010, Italy. She has advised governments in India and other countries, including as Chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers’ Welfare in 2004, and Member of the National Knowledge Commission of India (2005-09). She was the Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (www.networkideas.org), an international network of heterodox development economists, from 2002 to 2021. She has consulted for international organisations including ILO, UNDP, UNCTAD, UN-DESA, UNRISD and UN Women and is member of several international boards and commissions, including the UN High Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the Commission on Global Economic Transformation of INET, the International Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT). In 2021 she was appointed to the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, chaired by Mariana Mazzucato. In March 2022, she joined the UN Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, mandated to provide a vision for international cooperation to deal with current and future challenges. She also writes regularly for popular media like newspapers, journals and blogs.

University of São Paulo

Nadya Araujo Guimarães

Nadya Araujo Guimarães is a Senior Professor at the University of São Paulo Department of Sociology. She is also a Senior Researcher associated to CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning), and a regular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.  She received her Ph.D. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1983) and did post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Special Program on Urban and Regional Studies for Developing Areas (1993-1994).  

She was Visiting Associate Professor at the Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University (2007-08), “Professeur Invité” at the Université de Paris 8 Sociology Department (March 2012), Distinguished Lemann Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2018), and “Professeur Invité” at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (January 2019).

She has been researching on the Brazilian labor market focusing on economic change and workers trajectories; comparative studies on unemployment, employment flexibility and labor market intermediaries; gender/race inequalities; care and care workers.  She recently published:  

• Care and Care Workers. A Latin American Perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021 (co-edited with H. Hirata)
• O Gênero do Cuidado. Desigualdades, Significações e Identidades. Paulo: Ateliê, 2020 (co-authored with H. Hirata)
• El Cuidado en América Latina. Mirando a los casos de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia y Uruguay. Buenos Aires: Ed. Medifé, 2020 (co-edited with H. Hirata)
• Genre, race, classe. Travailler en France et au Brésil.  Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016 (co-edited with M. Maruani and B. Sorj)
• Être chômeur à Paris, São Paulo et Tokyo. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2013 (co-authored with D.Demazière, H. Hirata, K. Sugita)

University of Duisburg-Essen

Ute Klammer

Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer studied German studies, philosophy, pedagogy and economics in Cologne. She is the Managing Director of the Institute for Work, Skills and Training at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She also acts as the chairwoman of the expert commission of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth on gender equality. She is also a board member of the social policy section of the German Sociological Association. In addition, Prof. Dr. Ute Klammer is a board member of the Gesellschaft für Sozialen Fortschritt e.V. (Society for Social Progress) and serves on the advisory board of the research network on provision for old age of the German Pension Fund (Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund). She has been a professor for social policy at the Duisburg-Essen University since 2007.

Johns Hopkins University

Zophia Edwards

Zophia Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Black Studies at Providence College, RI, USA. Her research examines the impacts of colonialism and multiracial labor movements on state formation, state institutions, and long-term development in resource-rich countries in the Global South, with a particular focus on Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in Sociological Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Political Power and Social Theory, among others.

Northwestern University

Christopher Paul Harris

Christopher Paul Harris is a postdoctoral fellow in the department for African American Studies at Northwestern University. He has played an active role in the Black Youth Project 100 and is a contributing editor at Public Seminar, as well as co-curator of a dedicated section on the Movement for Black Lives in the permanent exhibition “Activist New York” at the Museum of the City of New York, and, in collaboration with BYP100 in NYC, co-produced the award-winning experimental documentary short, Acting Erratically. His book To Build a Black Future: Blackness and Social Movement in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter is slated for publication with Princeton University Press in early 2022.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Melissa Nobles

Melissa Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nobles’ research and teaching have focused on the comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, and issues of retrospective justice. Her current research centers on constructing a database of racial killings in the American South, 1930–1954. Working closely as a faculty collaborator and advisory boardmember of Northeastern Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice law clinic, Nobles has conducted extensive archival research, unearthing understudied and more often, unknown deaths and contributing to legal investigations. She is the author of two books, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford University Press, 2000), The Politics of Official Apologies (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-editor with Jun-Hyeok Kwak of Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia (Routledge Press, 2013). Her scholarship has also appeared in the Annual Review of Political Science, Daedalus, American Journal of Public Health, and several edited books.

Nobles is a graduate of Brown University where she majored in History. She received her MA and PhD  in Political Science from Yale University. Nobles has held fellowships at Boston University’s Institute for Race and Social Division and Harvard University’s Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study. She has served on the editorial boards of Polity, American Political Science Review, and Perspectives on Politics journals. Nobles has also been involved in faculty governance at MIT and beyond, serving as the Associate Chair of the MIT Faculty from 2007–2009 and Vice-President of the American PoliticalScience Association, 2013-14.

Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

Donatella Della Porta

Donatella Della Porta is professor of political science, dean of the Faculty  of Political and Social Sciences  and Director of the PhD program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).

Among the main topics of her research: social movements, political violence, terrorism, corruption, the police and protest policing. She has directed a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. She is Honorary Doctor of the universities of Lausanne, Bucharest, Goteborg, Jyvaskyla and the University of Peloponnese.

She is the author or editor of 90 books, 150 journal articles and 150 contributions in edited volumes. Among her very recent publications are: Legacies and Memories in Movements (Oxford University Press, 2018); Sessantotto. Passato e presente dell’anno ribelle (Fertrinelli, 2018); Contentious moves (Palgrave 2017), Global Diffusion of Protest (Amsterdam University Press, 2017), Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents (Palgrave, 2017); Movement Parties in Times of Austerity (Polity 2017), Where did the Revolution go? (Cambridge University Press, 2016); Social Movements in Times of Austerity (Polity 2015), Methodological practices in social movement research (Oxford University Press, 2014); Spreading Protest (ECPR Press 2014, with Alice Mattoni), Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014, with Joan Font and Yves Sintomer); Mobilizing for Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2014); Can Democracy be Saved?, Polity Press, 2013; Clandestine Political Violence, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (with D. Snow, B. Klandermans and D. McAdam (eds.). Blackwell Encyclopedia on Social and Political Movements, Blackwell. 2013; Mobilizing on the Extreme Right (with M. Caiani and C. Wagemann), Oxford University Press, 2012; Meeting Democracy (ed. With D. Rucht), Cambridge University Press, 2012; The Hidden Order of Corruption (with A. Vannucci), Ashgate 2012.

European Network Against Racism (ENAR)

Karen Taylor

 Karen Taylor is the Chair of ENAR (European Network against racism). ENAR is the only pan-European network combining racial equality advocacy with building a strong network of anti-racist organisations across Europe. 

At EOTO (Each One Teach One e.V.) a Black led community organization for empowerment of People of African Descent in Germany Karen is the director of policy and advocacy at EOTO. Karen is equally working as a policy advisor at the German Bundestag where she concentrates on anti-discrimination policies in Germany as well as on human rights issues in West Africa. 

Throughout Karen’s professional carrier and voluntary work, it has always been her goal to fight racial discrimination and to provide equal access to political decision-making processes for the most marginalized groups in Germany. 

As former Chair of the committee for migration and diversity of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Berlin Karen promoted the concept of intersectionality and inclusion within the party and the government of Berlin. She was the first Black woman to hold this position. 

Karen is an Alumnae of the Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network (TILN) organized by the German Marshall Found (GMF). 

German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)

Sabrina Zajak

Sabrina Zajak is head of the Department Consent and Conflict at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) and professor at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum. She developed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies and is currently the vice president of the Research Network Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47) at the International Sociology Association. Her research interests are conflict and social movements, political representations, civil society, discourses and social networks in national and international contexts. She was a guest or visiting fellow at various universities and research institutions in different countries including Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris (as Associate Research Director); City University Hong Kong; Mahidol University Bangkok; Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Cambridge; Forum for Civil Society and Social Movement Research (CSM), University of Göteborg, and Viadrina Center B/Order in Motion, University Frankfurt (Oder). She recently co-authored 3 special issues in Social Movement Studies 2021, Competition and Change 2020, and Moving the Social 2020. Her latest book on social movements Social Stratification and Social Movements: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on an Ambivalent Relationship  (2020, Routledge) is published together with Sebastian Haunss. Click through to read her most recent publication, Black Lives Matter in Europe: Transnational Diffusion, Local Translation and Resonance of Anti-Racist Protest in Germany, Italy, Denmark and Poland (dezim-institut.de).

University of Sussex

Jacqueline O’Reilly

SASE President Elect 2020-2021

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

University of East Anglia

Hussein Kassim

Hussein Kassim is Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia. A scholar of comparative politics, public administration and public policy, his research investigates EU institutions, the relationship between the EU and the member states, competition policy, and aviation policy.

Professor Kassim has held research grants from the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, and the ESRC. In June 2019, he was awarded a three-year ESRC Senior Fellowship as part of the ESRC’s ‘UK in Changing Europe’ programme (http://ukandeu.ac.uk). Professor Kassim is principal investigator on major research projects on the EU administration, including ‘The European Commission: Where now? Where next?’ and ‘Understanding the EU Civil Service: the General Secretariat of the Council’ with Professor Sara Connolly, UEA. His project, ‘Negotiating the UK’s Future’, researches the UK-EU negotiations as the UK seeks re-positions itself in Europe and the wider world.

With Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey, Professor Kassim leads the ESRC-funded project, ‘Negotiating Brexit’, a cross-national observatory which brings together experts from across Europe to monitor and explain the approaches to the Article 50 negotiations. He is co-convenor with Adriaan Schout, Clingendael of ‘National European Union narratives’, and he researches aspects of EU competition policy, including the ECN, and was co-investigator on the EU Horizon 2020-funded project, ‘EMU Choices’, which examines responses to the financial and economic crisis.

Professor Kassim read PPE at New College, Oxford. He studied for an MPhil, then DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford. His career began as a college lecturer at New College, Balliol College, and Worcester College in the University of Oxford. After a lectureship at the University of Nottingham, he moved to the Department of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, where he remained for thirteen years. Professor Kassim has held visiting positions at the European University Institute, University of Oslo, Columbia University, New York University, Harvard University, and Sciences Po. Paris. He is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, EGPP Programme Associate at the European University Institute, and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London.

University of Sussex

L Alan Winters

L Alan Winters CB is Professor of Economics. He is Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy and a Fellow and Founding Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, both in the University of Sussex. He is a leading contributor to research and debate on Brexit and the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy. From 2008 to 2011 he was Chief Economist at the British government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and from 2004 to 2007 Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He was editor of The World Trade Review (2008-2020). He has also recently completed terms as Chairman of the Board of the Global Development Network, Membership of the Council of the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and Chair of its Research Committee and Chief Executive Officer of the Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium. He has advised, inter alia, various UK government departments, the OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNCTAD, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 2012.

L Alan Winters is a leading specialist on the empirical and policy analysis of international trade, including that of Europe and of developing countries. He has published over two hundred and fifty articles and chapters and thirty books in areas such as regional trading arrangements, trade and poverty, non-tariff barriers, European integration, transition economies’ trade, international migration, agricultural protection and the world trading system. He has also published on small economies, global warming, pricing behavior and econometrics. His current work is substantially devoted to research and policy analysis on UK post-Brexit trade policy.

University Duisburg-Essen

Karen Shire

Karen Shire holds the Chair in Comparative Sociology and Japanese Society at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany where she is also a member of the Institute of East Asian Studies and directs the Essener College for Gender Research. She is a member of the faculty of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Construction of the Economy, and in the past few years has held guest appointments in the research group In Search of Global Labor Markets, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld University, at the Institute for Global Leadership, Ochanomizu Women’s University in Tokyo, and at the Violence and Society Centre, City, University of London. Currently she is Vice-President of RC02 Economy & Society in the International Sociological Association. Her research has contributed to developing inter-regional and historical comparisons of the transformation of work and employment, social institutional changes in the nexus between work and welfare, and changes in class and gender-based social inequalities in Europe and East Asia. Recently her interest has turned to studying the transnationalization of labor markets in the context of migration and global production networks. This research has received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG) and the European Commission Anti-Trafficking Coordinator. 

A selection of Shire’s latest publications include Transnationalisierung der Arbeit (2018, co-edited with Sigrid Quack, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer and Anja Weiß, VS Springer), Labour Subcontracting in Cross-Border Labour Markets (2019, with Ines Wagner, in N. Lillie and J. Arnholz Posted Work in the European Union, Routledge), The Social Order of Transnational Migration Markets (2020, in Global Networks) and the forthcoming volume The Dynamics of Welfare Markets: Private Pensions and Domestic/Care Services in Europe (co-edited with Clémence Ledoux and Franca van Hooren, Palgrave). She is a corresponding editor of the International Review of Social History, a member of the editorial boards of Work, Employment and Society, the European Journal of East Asian Studies, and Contemporary Japan, and a member of the Jury for the International Research Prize of Max Weber Foundation.

Shire began presenting her work and organizing panels at SASE Meetings in the 1990s. At the annual meetings in Kyoto she organized the Mini-Conference, The Making of Transnational Labor Markets: Reordering of Actors, Institutions, and Policies? (with Ursula Mense- Petermann), she has served as a reviewer for the SASE Early Career Workshop, and is a rank-and-file member of the SASE Gender Forum. Together with David Marsden, she coordinates the SASE Network G: Labor Markets, Education and Human Resources.

European University Institute Migration Policy Centre

Martin Ruhs

Professor Martin Ruhs is Chair in Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. He is on leave from the University of Oxford. Martin’s research focuses on the economics and politics of international migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. His books include The Price of Rights. Regulating International Labour Migration (Princeton University Press 2013), Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy-Making on Migration and Integration (Oxford University Press 2019, co-edited with Kristof Tamas and Joakim Palme), and Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (Oxford University Press 2010, co-edited with B. Anderson). He is currently working on research projects that analyse the tensions between free movement and European welfare states (freeEUmove); public policy preferences for EU-Turkey and EU-Africa cooperation on migration and refugee protection (MEDAM); and the role of migrants in shaping systemic resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic and to similar shocks in the future (MigResHub). Martin has also not yet given up on a long-delayed book project on ‘multinational corporations, migrant labour, and the nation state’.

Most of Martin’s work addresses key questions and dilemmas in public policy-making. Martin has provided policy analysis and advice for various national governments and international institutions. During 2009-12, he was the Director of Oxford University’s Migration Observatory. During 2007-14, Martin was a member of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), an independent body of five academic economists tasked to advise the UK government on labour immigration policy. In 2017, Martin co-edited (with Marie McAuliffee) the World Migration Report 2018, published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He is currently a Co-chair of the T20 Task Force on Migration and an academic co-director of the international MEDAM project, which provides research to inform the reform of European policies on asylum and migration. Martin has written for the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Irish Times.  

University of Toronto

Ito Peng

Ito Peng is the Canada Research Chair in Global Social Policy and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Department of Sociology, and the School of Public Policy and Governance. She is also the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy, University of Toronto. She teaches political sociology and social contexts of public policy, specializing in family, gender, and demographic issues, migration and comparative social policy. She has written extensively on family and gender policies, labour market changes, care economy, and social and political economy of care. Professor Peng is the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC funded partnership research project called Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: International Comparisons, that examines how the reorganization of care influences the global migration of care workers, and how this migration in turn impact family and gender relations, gender equality, government policies, and global governance. Professor Peng has held a variety of senior leadership positions at the University of Toronto. Prior to being the Director of the Centre for Global Social Policy, Professor Peng was the Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary & International Affairs at the Faculty of Arts and Science. She has also served as the Chair and Director of Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies and the Director of Centre for the Studies of Korea, both at the Asian Institute. Professor Peng is a senior fellow of Massey College and Trinity College, University of Toronto; and a senior fellow of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She has been an associate researcher with the UNRISD since 1996. Dr. Peng received her PhD from London School of Economics.

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Biao Xiang

Biao Xiang studied sociology at Beijing University, China, and received his PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK. He worked at Oxford from 2004. Xiang is the winner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize for his book Global Bodyshopping and the 2012 William L. Holland Prize for his article ‘Predatory Princes’. His 2000 Chinese book 跨越边界的社区 (published in English as Transcending Boundaries, 2005) was reprinted in 2018 as a contemporary classic. His work has been translated into Japanese, French, Korean, Spanish, and Italian.

National University of Singapore

Brenda Yeoh

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, as well as Director, Humanities and Social Science Research Office of Deputy President (Research & Technology), National University of Singapore (NUS).  She is also the Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and she also has considerable experience working on a wide range of migration research in Asia, including key themes such as cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, social reproduction and care migration; migration, national identity and citizenship issues; globalising universities and international student mobilities; and cultural politics, family dynamics and international marriage migrants. She has published widely in these fields.

Johns Hopkins University

Zophia Edwards

Zophia Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Black Studies at Providence College, RI, USA. Her research examines the impacts of colonialism and multiracial labor movements on state formation, state institutions, and long-term development in resource-rich countries in the Global South, with a particular focus on Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in Sociological Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Political Power and Social Theory, among others.

The Open University

Jenny Douglas

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Rossalina Latcheva

Rossalina Latcheva holds a PhD in sociology from the Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany and is currently appointed as a Programme Manager for Fair and Equal Societies in the Research and Data Unit of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), in Vienna. Her areas of expertise with respect to FRA’s work include migration and integration, racism, discrimination, xenophobia and ethnic exclusion, gender-based violence, and survey methods and research. Prior to joining the FRA, she held a university post-doctoral position at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and was appointed as a university lecturer at the University of Vienna, Austria. To date, she has published a number of articles, book chapters and reports on migration and integration, national and European identity, discrimination and ethnic exclusion, violence against women and mixed methods research.

University of California, Berkeley

Brandi T. Summers

Brandi Thompson Summers is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS) at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society(CSTMS) and the Center for Race & Gender (CRG). Her research examines urban cultural landscapes and the political and economic dynamics by which race and space are reimagined and reordered. She has published several articles and essays that analyze the relationship between race, power, aesthetics, and urbanization that appear in both academic and popular publications, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), EPD: Society & Space, ASAP/Journal, Public Books, and The Funambulist.  She is a member of the Editorial Collectives of City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action and ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographers, and is on the editorial board of Urban Geography, City & Community, and AAG Review of Books.

Dr. Summers is the author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City (University of North Carolina Press), which explores how aesthetics and race converge to locate or map blackness in Washington, D.C. In it, she demonstrates the way that competing notions of blackness structure efforts to raise capital and develop land in the gentrifying city.

Her current book project is an interdisciplinary study that examines the complex ways in which uses of space and placemaking practices inform productions of knowledge and power. The project engages research by examining representations and experiences of space, place, and landscape in Oakland, CA across historical contexts.

Johns Hopkins University

Alexandre White

Alexandre White joined the Johns Hopkins Faculty in 2019 after completing a Provost’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship here. He earned his B.A. in Black Studies from Amherst College, his MSc. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his PhD  in Sociology from Boston University. He is also jointly affiliated with the Department of the History of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine and is an Associate Director for the Center For Medical Humanities and Social Medicine.

His work examines the social effects of infectious epidemic outbreaks in both historical and contemporary settings as well as the global mechanisms that produce responses to outbreak. His book project, Epidemic Colonialism: A Social History of International Disease Response, explores the historical roots of international responses to epidemic threats. This book will examine how certain epidemic outbreaks become “global threats”, that is, diseases that become the focus of international regulations and organized responses while others do not. To answer this question, this work draws upon archival data collected at the World Health Organization (WHO) archives in Geneva, the Western Cape Archives in Cape Town, the British Library, British National Archives, the Wellcome Library Archives in London, and twelve qualitative interviews with senior global health actors in order to analyze five cases when disease threats were prioritized internationally as well as how these constructions patterned responses to outbreaks. White begins by exploring the formation of the first international disease controls in the 19th century, the International Sanitary Conventions, created to prevent the spread of three diseases- plague, cholera and yellow fever. He probes how these earliest conventions patterned responses to diseases covered under them and limited responses to those beyond their scope. Examining how these conventions transformed, he explores why the same disease priorities were maintained by the WHO in their International Sanitary Regulations of the 1950’s. Finally, he analyzes the transformation of the International Health Regulations in 2005 and its effects on the assessment of disease threat. 

His published work in the field  has demonstrated how differences in the perceived threat of deadly diseases have provoked anomalous responses to outbreaks. Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics: Contrasting Responses To Bubonic Plague And Smallpox In 1901 Cape Town, in Social Science History explores two simultaneous epidemics that, despite similar pathologies, prompted significantly varying responses from public health actors in 1901 Cape Town: the bubonic plague and smallpox. His work in fields beyond medical sociology has primarily explored questions of racial subjectivities, anti-colonial revolution and uprising and structures of colonial domination and resistance.

University of Amsterdam

Olav Velthuis

Olav Velthuis is Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam, specializing in economic sociology, sociology of the arts and cultural sociology. At the department, he is director of the program group Cultural Sociology. His research interests include the globalization of art markets, the interrelations between market and gift exchange, the valuation and pricing of contemporary art, and the moral and socio-technological dimensions of markets for adult content. In a cross-comparative fashion, he has studied the emergence and development of art markets in the BRIC-countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). The project was financed by a VIDI-grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). Before moving to the Universiity of Amsterdam, Velthuis worked for several years as a Staff Reporter Globalization for the Dutch daily de Volkskrant. Also, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz and as a Post-Doc researcher at Columbia University.

Velthuis is the author of Talking Prices. Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art (Princeton University Press, 2005), which received the Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association for the best book in economic sociology (2006). The American magazine Newsweek referred to it as “the best study of what art spending means“. He is also the author of Imaginary Economics (NAi Publishers, 2005), which was translated into Dutch and Italian. Together with Maria Lind of Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), he edited the book Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios (Sternberg Press, 2012) and with Stefano Baia Curioni the book Cosmopolitan Canvases. The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Apart from art markets, Velthuis has among others studied the market for literary fiction, cultural consumption and lifestyle, financial markets, and journalism. His academic work has appeared in leading journals in social science including Theory & Society, Socio-Economic Review, Economy & Society, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journalism, and the Journal of Cultural Economics. His journalistic writings have appeared in among others The New York Times, Artforum, the Art Newspaper and the Financial Times. His work has been cited in international media including Newsweek, Die Zeit, Corriere della Sera, The Independent, Il Sole 24 Ore, the FreakonomicsBlog of the New York Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Velthuis has given keynote lectures and workshops at a variety of national and international cultural institutions including Tate Modern (London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm), Art Basel, Rijksacademie (Amsterdam), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Christie’s (London) and De Appel (Amsterdam).

He is president of The International Art Market Studies Association (www.artmarketstudies.org) and used to be board member of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), which was the main government-sponsored foundation for visual artists in the Netherlands.

UC Berkeley

Marion Fourcade

SASE President 2015-2016

Marion Fourcade received her PhD from Harvard University (2000) and taught at New York University and Princeton University before joining the Berkeley sociology department in 2003. A comparative sociologist by training and taste, she is interested in variations in economic and political knowledge and practice across nations. Her first book, Economists and Societies (Princeton University Press 2009), explored the distinctive character of the discipline and profession of economics in three countries. A second book, The Ordinal Society  (with Kieran Healy), is under contract. This book investigates new forms of social stratification and morality in the digital economy. Other recent research focuses on the valuation of nature in comparative perspective; the moral regulation of states; the comparative study of political organization (with Evan Schofer and Brian Lande); the microsociology of courtroom exchanges (with Roi Livne); the sociology of economics, with Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan, and with Rakesh Khurana; the politics of wine classifications in France and the United States (with Rebecca Elliott and Olivier Jacquet). A final book-length project, Measure for Measure: Social Ontologies of Classification, will examine the cultural and institutional logic of what we may call “national classificatory styles” across a range of empirical domains.

Fourcade is also an Associate Fellow of the Max Planck-Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (Maxpo), and the current President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.

King's College London

Alfredo Saad-Filho

Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development in the Department of International Development. Previously, he was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London; Chair of the SOAS Department of Development Studies (2006-10); Head of SOAS Doctoral School (2018-19); and Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2011-12).

Alfredo was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil in 2014 and the SOAS Director’s Teaching Prize in 2016. He has degrees in Economics from the University of Brasília (Brazil) and SOAS University of London and has taught in universities and research institutions in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Switzerland and the UK.

His academic publications include nine authored or edited books, 70 journal articles and 50 book chapters, as well as 30 reports and other contributions for the United Nations and other international agencies (UNCTAD, UNDP, UN-ESCWA, and UN-DESA). His work has been published in 15 languages and presented over 200 academic events in 30 countries.

These writings range across critiques of the (Post-)Washington consensus; International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank policies and pro-poor policy alternatives. They also include concrete analyses of fiscal, monetary, financial, balance of payments and employment policies, as well as inflation targeting, resource use (including ‘resource curse’ and Dutch Disease) and policy-making in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America (especially Brazil) and the Middle East.

Leiden University

Saori Shibata

Saori Shibata is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Her research focuses on Japan’s political economy, including labour market relations, the labour movement, the digital economy and the changing nature of work. In particular, she is interested in how Japan’s model of capitalism is changing, and becoming more neoliberal, and how this is being contested by Japan’s increasingly precarious workforce. This draws on institutionalist approaches to capitalism and critical political economy, and contributes to debates in both international and comparative political economy. She has published on these topics in journals such as New Political Economy and British Journal of Political Science. She is the author of Contesting Precarity in Japan: The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus published by Cornell University Press

Wellesley College

Quinn Slobodian

Quinn Slobodian is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College. He is a historian of modern German and international history with a focus on North-South politics, social movements, and the intellectual history of neoliberalism. His most recent book is Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism(Harvard University Press, 2018). He is also the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (Duke University Press, 2012), the editor of Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World (Berghahn Books, 2015) and the co-editor (with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski) of Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso Books). He has published over two dozen journal articles and chapters, including in Journal of Global History, American Historical Review, and Journal of Contemporary History. He has also written publicly for the New York Times, New Statesman, the Baffler, and Dissent. Slobodian’s research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Most recently, he was a residential fellow with the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University. He is currently at work on a book on the far right’s capitalism.

McGill University

Paola Perez-Aleman

Dr. Paola Perez-Aleman is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at McGill University. Her research and expertise lies at the intersection of management, strategy, and international development. The focus of her work is on the processes that build capabilities of enterprises, foster innovation, and advance economic development. Specifically, Dr. Perez-Aleman examines how clusters and inter-firm networks emerge and grow; how local enterprises in developing countries build production and innovation capabilities; and how vulnerable groups in low-income contexts and global value chains are included in the shift to sustainable production practices. Her research explores organizational and institutional processes that foster equity, inclusive innovation, poverty alleviation, and sustainability.

In recognition for exceptional leadership in integrating social and environmental issues into her research and teaching in management, the Aspen Institute named Dr. Perez-Aleman a Faculty Pioneer Award Finalist. The Industry Studies Association and INFORMS, and the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management selected her papers as Best Paper AwardFinalist. At McGill University, Dr. Perez-Aleman was awarded the McGill Award for Equity and Community Building recognizing outstanding achievement, initiative and impact of her research, teaching and service in the domains of equity, inclusion, and community building. Dr. Perez-Aleman’s work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Organization Science, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, World Development, Industrial and Corporate Change, California Management Review, and Business and Politics.

Dr. Perez-Aleman teaches international management at McGill University, creating courses such as Strategic Management in Developing Countries (MBA) and Strategies for Developing Countries (undergraduate) that prepare students to manage the challenges facing enterprises operating in developing and emerging economies.  She also created a PhD seminar on International Business and Government and an undergraduate course on Business-Government Relations that examine business-government-NGO regulatory actions, production organization, and innovation dynamics in a complex global context.  Dr. Perez-Aleman is an Associate Faculty Member of McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development.

Professor Perez-Aleman earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her B.Sc. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

University College London

Joanna Chataway

Joanna Chataway is Head of the Department of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London (UCL). Previously, she was Deputy Director and Professor of Science and Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex. She also directed the Innovation, Health, and Science (IHS) research group at RAND Europe and was previously Professor of Biotechnology and Development and Co-Director of the ESRC INNOGEN Research Centre at the Open University.  She is a leader in the field of science and innovation policy and at STEaPP is working with colleagues to spearhead new integrated approaches to researching and teaching science policy and science advice.   She is interested in successfully navigating the tensions between demands and requirements of policy research, science advice, and academic work. 

Harvard Business School

Rebecca Henderson

Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert on innovation and organizational change, and her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose, innovation and productivity in high performance organizations. Rebecca sits on the boards of Idexx Laboratories and of CERES and was named one of three “Outstanding Directors of 2019” by the Financial Times. 

Her publications include Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. For several years she taught “Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems”, a course that grew from 28 students to over 300 and that is the basis for the newly released Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire – a book that has just been shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award.

DSI/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Chair in Transformative Innovation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Erika Kraemer-Mbula

Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work focuses on alternative development paths for African economies. She specialises in the analysis of innovation systems in connection to equitable development and inclusive development, and has done pioneering work on innovation in the African informal sector. Trained as an Economist, she holds a Masters in Science and Technology Policy by the Science and Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex), and a doctorate in Development Studies from the University of Oxford. 

Besides her academic work, Erika has undertaken a range of advisory assignments with international institutions (such as IDRC, TWAS, UNIDO, UNESCO, UNICEF, among others). Her experience in this area includes the evaluation of strategic innovation-related programmes of international donor organisations, designing and reviewing regional and national STI policies, as well as supporting the implementation of innovation strategies in African countries. In South Africa, she is currently an appointed member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII),  various Reference Groups at the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), and a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Post-Covid socio-economic recovery (for the Department of Science and Innovation). She is also a member of several research networks on innovation and development – such as Vice-president of Globelics, advisory board member of Africalics and Steering Committee member of OpenAIR.

Erika is currently the Chairholder of the DST/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Chair in Transformative Innovation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development, based at the College of Business and Economics (University of Johannesburg) and in partnership with ACTS and SPRU. Her research unit at the University of Johannesburg is formed by a dynamic team of national and international researchers that engages in cutting-edge research; builds the capacity of younger scholars to help develop the next generation of African thinkers leading transformative change; and engages with policy makers, key stakeholders and research partners, to influence policy change.

Erika is also a Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).

National University of Singapore

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Henry Yeung is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Geography and Global Production Networks Centre, National University of Singapore. He obtained his BA (First Class Honors) in Geography from the National University of Singapore in 1992 and PhD at the University of Manchester, UK, in 1995. He was appointed Senior Tutor (1992), Lecturer/Associate Professor (1996-2004), Professor of Economic Geography (2005-now), and Distinguished Professor of the University (2018-now). As one of the world’s leading academic experts in global production networks and the global economy, his research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, East Asian firms, and developmental states. He was conferred the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Murchison Award 2017 in the UK for “pioneering publications in the field of globalisation”. The American Association of Geographers awarded him the AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors for 2018 “in recognition of his extraordinary scholarship and leadership in the discipline”. Professor Yeung has published 6 monographs (5 single-authored) and 1 textbook (3 editions), 7 edited books, 105 journal articles, and 50 book chapters. His latest books are Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series, Stanford University Press, contracted and forthcoming in 2022), Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Cornell University Press, 2016), and Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World (with Neil Coe, Oxford University Press, 2015). For two decades, he has been a co-editor of two top journals in Geography –Economic Geography and Environment and Planning A. He is also past editor of Review of International Political Economy (2004-2013) and serves on the editorial boards of 19 journals in the diverse fields of human geography, management, urban studies, area studies, and general social science.

University of Frankfurt

Cornelia Storz

Cornelia Storz is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on political economy, comparative institutional analysis, institutional change, innovation systems and industry emergence with specific attention to Japan and other Asian regimes. She is reviewer for Research Policy, Journal of Small Business Economics, Asian Business and Management and others and co-author of Institutional Diversity and Innovation: Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (Routledge, 2011).

University Würzburg

Doris Fischer

Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer holds the Chair of China Business and Economics at the University Würzburg since 2012. After studying Business Administration and Chinese Studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Wuhan, Doris Fischer did her PhD in economics at the University of Gießen. Her numerous publications on China’s economy reflect her long-term research interest in competition, innovation and industrial policies and the incentives they create for economic actors.

Current research projects investigate characteristics of energy transition related industrial policies under administration of Xi Jinping (DFG-Projekt Industriepolitik), local self-organisation in the context of the Chinese energy transition (DFG-Projekt LoSAM) and the impact of the Chinese social credit system on companies and global governance (bidt-Projekt). Further research addresses the development of the Chinese innovation system in international comparison and the interplay of innovation policies and entrepreneurship in China.

Earlier in her career, Doris Fischer had worked as assistant professor in the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg and as senior economist at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn. She was guest professor at the Faculty of Economics at Seikei University (2007) in Tokyo and at the Chinese Studies Department of the Free University of Berlin (2010). From 2010 to 2012 Doris Fischer coordinated the international research project ‘Technological Trajectories for Climate Change Mitigation in China, Europe and India’ (Projekt Homepage), a collaboration between the DIE, the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex), the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University (Beijing) and the Indian Institute of Development, Delhi.

From 2017 to 2019 Professor Fischer led the German expert group for the German-Sino Plattform Innovation (Deutsch-Chinesische Plattform Innovation).

Doris Fischer is Chairwoman of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde/German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) and member of the examination committee for the  DAAD Program ‘Sprache und Praxis China‘. She acts as peer reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), die Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, die Volkswagen Foundation as well as academic journals such as Energy Policy, World Development, Journal of Environment and Development, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, China: An International Journal, Climate Policy, Journal of Development Studies, Asien, Issues& Studies, Asian Economic Journal.

She is co-editor together with Prof. Dr. Jörn-Carsten Gottwald (University of Bochum) and Dr. Katja Levy (Berlin) of the academic book series „China – Politics and Economics“ published by Nomos.

Leibniz University Hannover

Ingo Liefner

Ingo Liefner is Professor of Economic Geography at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. His research interests include theories and methods in economic geography, innovation, local and global knowledge networks, and innovation in developing and newly industrialising countries, with a particular focus on China. He has carried out and directed many research projects on innovation and regional development, funded by institutions including the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Humboldt Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. He has published and edited books, book chapters and journal articles, and has published in journals such as Technovation, Environment and Planning A, Higher Education, Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, Research Policy, Applied Geography, and many others. He has also organized/chaired numerous sessions at professional conferences and has served as advisor/panelist to various professional organisations and administrative bodies.

University of Frankfurt

Cornelia Storz

Cornelia Storz is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on political economy, comparative institutional analysis, institutional change, innovation systems and industry emergence with specific attention to Japan and other Asian regimes. She is reviewer for Research Policy, Journal of Small Business Economics, Asian Business and Management and others and co-author of Institutional Diversity and Innovation: Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (Routledge, 2011).

University of Frankfurt

Cornelia Storz

Cornelia Storz is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on political economy, comparative institutional analysis, institutional change, innovation systems and industry emergence with specific attention to Japan and other Asian regimes. She is reviewer for Research Policy, Journal of Small Business Economics, Asian Business and Management and others and co-author of Institutional Diversity and Innovation: Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (Routledge, 2011).

Goethe University Frankfurt

Egbert Amoncio

Egbert Marasigan Amoncio studied BS Statistics at the University of the Philippines – Diliman. He holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from Goethe University in Frankfurt.

He is primarily working on innovation research where he applies Artificial Intelligence methods in optimizing innovation quality measures. Further, his research interests also include entrepreneurship in emerging economies where he investigates the impact of alleviating managerial and market integration constraints on microfirm’s performance.

University of Frankfurt

Cornelia Storz

Cornelia Storz is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Frankfurt. Her research focuses on political economy, comparative institutional analysis, institutional change, innovation systems and industry emergence with specific attention to Japan and other Asian regimes. She is reviewer for Research Policy, Journal of Small Business Economics, Asian Business and Management and others and co-author of Institutional Diversity and Innovation: Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China (Routledge, 2011).

University of Siegen

Alexander Vossen

Alexander Vossen is part of the Entrepreneurship in Context Research Group at the University of Siegen.  His main research interests lie within strategic and cultural aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation, such as the role of new ventures’ and products’ cultural and structural embeddedness with the market. His most recent works focuses on how new ventures utilize cultural entrepreneurship (such as tailoring a suited narrative) to become as distinctive as legitimately possible. Moreover, his projects explore how new ventures can utilize methods from machine learning to foster both efficiency and effectiveness of the entrepreneurial process in fast growing technology markets. His work has appeared in referred international Journals such as the Journal of Business Venturing, the International Journal of Innovation Management, and the Journal of Retailing. He holds a Ph.D. (Dr.rer.pol.) from RWTH Aachen University and prior to joining University of Siegen he was an Assistant Professor at the Marketing Department at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. 

University of Essex

Matthew Allen

Matthew Allen is Professor of International Business and Strategy, and Head of the Strategy, Operations, and Entrepreneurship Group within Essex Business School. His research compares and analyses business and employment systems and their effects on innovation, technology and work designs. His work has been published in leading comparative and international business journals, such as the British Journal of Management, Socio-Economic Review and the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. He has gained funding for his research from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. In 2020, he gained funding from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy for a prestigious Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership.

As the Head of the SOE Group, Matt is the line manager for over 20 colleagues and is responsible for providing leadership, oversight, mentoring and monitoring of all academic staff in the Group in the delivery of excellence in education and research. He reports to the Dean. As a member of the EBS Senior Management Team, he contributes to the overall strategic and operational delivery of School activities ensuring effective leadership of the School as a whole. Before joining EBS in 2019, he worked at Alliance Manchester Business School, where he directed MSc programmes, including the FT-ranked MSc in Business Analysis and Strategic Management. He was the DBA Director between 2015 and 2019, successfully managing the programme and its partnership with the prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. The joint DBA programme with SJTU was the only DBA programme approved by the Ministry of Education, China. During his Directorship, completion rates, publications from DBA research and the number of graduates going on to university careers increased.

Matt regularly attends, and presents papers at, the annual conferences of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and the Academy of International Business (UK and Ireland Chapter). He is one of the co-ordinators of Network F within SASE on Knowledge, Technology and Innovation. Between 2012 and 2015, he was the Communications Officer for the AIB (UK and Ireland Chapter). A paper he co-authored with Florian Becker-Ritterspach and Knut Lange was nominated for the Florida International University/Academy of International Business Best Theory Paper Award in 2020.

Goethe University Frankfurt

Leo Leitzinger

Since November 2020, Leo Leitzinger has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Industrial Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.

He studied economics at Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Toronto. Prior to his employment as a research assistant, he has already worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Industrial Economics and at the Leibniz Institute SAFE. Leo Leitzinger also studied philosophy in Freiburg, at ÉNS Lyon and in Frankfurt.

His research interests are in the fields of intellectual property, innovation research and corporate finance.

Norwegian School of Economics

Denis Utochkin

Denis Utochkin is a PhD Research Scholar at the Department of Strategy and Management. He holds a master’s degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of online brand communities, reward-based crowdfunding, and consumer behaviour. He is enthusiastic about the new frontiers in consumer research that network analysis and computer-assisted text analysis open up and fascinated by the rich context for studying brand collectives that the video game industry provides.

Goethe University Frankfurt

Egbert Amoncio

Egbert Marasigan Amoncio studied BS Statistics at the University of the Philippines – Diliman. He holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from Goethe University in Frankfurt.

He is primarily working on innovation research where he applies Artificial Intelligence methods in optimizing innovation quality measures. Further, his research interests also include entrepreneurship in emerging economies where he investigates the impact of alleviating managerial and market integration constraints on microfirm’s performance.

George Mason University

Ben Manski

Ben Manski is an associate professor in George Mason University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology, where he has launched a Next Systems Studies program. He is also director of the Democratizing NOVA project at Mason’s Center for Social Science Research. Manski studies the participation of ordinary people in the deliberate constitution of their societies. His work takes in social movements, law, politics, climate and ecology, and the corporation, focusing on democracy, democratization, and constitutionalism, and he has published widely on these themes. Manski has also practiced public interest law and managed national nonprofit organizations, direct action campaigns, and political campaigns and parties. He is an Institute for Policy Studies Associate Fellow, Next System Project Research Fellow, Liberty Tree Foundation Fellow, and a Critical Realism Network Associated Fellow.

University College London

Lara Monticelli

Dr Lara Monticelli is an interdisciplinary scholar, writer and public speaker interested in analysing contemporary capitalism, its crises, and more just and sustainable alternative futures. Her approach draws insights from economic and political sociology, critical social theory, political economy, and the humanities. Prior to joining UCL, she worked as Assistant Professor and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark. She also held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, University of Stockholm, and University of Rotterdam (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, DRIFT). 

Her EU-funded research project EcoLabSS (2018-2024), focused on the (re)emergence of community-based, prefigurative social movements (e.g. sustainable communities, eco-villages, transition towns, solidarity networks) as living laboratories experimenting with practices of resilience and resistance to environmental, economic and societal challenges. Lara is especially interested in how these movements re-politicize and re-configure everyday life, thus representing radical attempts to embody a critique to contemporary capitalism and prefigure alternative, sustainable futures. Her most recent edited volume is titled “The Future is Now. An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics” (2022, Bristol University Press). 

With Dr Torsten Geelan, she co-chairs the international research network “Alternatives to Capitalism” at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and co-edits the book series “Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century” at Bristol University Press.

Cooperation Jackson

Kali Akuno

Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, which was established to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises. He is also co-editor of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi. He was previously the director of special projects under Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, where his work included cooperative development and environmental sustainability.

Independent Researcher

Marvin T. Brown

Marvin T. Brown, a former adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, is an author and educator focused on developing the conditions for good conversations in the workplace, in civic settings, and in an unjust world. He is the author of Working Ethics (1990), The Ethical Process (1993), Corporate Integrity(2005), Civilizing the Economy (2010), and Learning through Disagreement (2014). He holds a PhD from Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., an MD from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University. 

Center for Partnership Studies

Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler, a systems scientist and historian is co-founder of the Center for Partnership Studies. She is best known as author of The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (now in its 57th US printing and 26 foreign editions) and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. She is editor-in-chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. Her most recent book is Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Oxford University Press).

Yale University

Shyam Sunder

Dr. Shyam Sunder is the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at the Yale School of Management; Professor in the Department of Economics; and Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. He is a world-renowned accounting theorist and experimental economist. His research contributions include financial reporting, information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation, and design of electronic markets. He is a pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics. Dr. Sunder has won many awards for his research that includes six books and more than 200 articles in the leading journals of accounting, economics and finance, as well as in popular media. Dr. Sunder’s current research includes the problem of structuring U.S. and international accounting and auditing institutions to obtain a judicious and efficient balance between regulatory oversight and market competition. He is a past president of the American Accounting Association, former director of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale, honorary research director of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, and distinguished fellow of the Center for Study of Science and Technology Policy in Bengaluru.

MIT Sloan School of Management

John E. Core

John E. Core is the Nanyang Technological University Professor and a Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Core has broad research interests in executive compensation and executive stock and option incentives, corporate governance, nonprofit governance, and disclosure and the cost of capital. His research has been published in the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting & Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. When not conducting research, Core teaches the core Financial Accounting class to first-year MBA students at MIT Sloan. Prior to entering academia, he worked in investment banking for PaineWebber and in compensation consulting for Ernst & Young.

Core holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from The Wharton School.

Columbia Business School

Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover is the James L. Dohr Professor of Accounting and Chair of the Accounting Division at Columbia Business School. His research interests include financial and managerial accounting, public policy, accounting history, information economics, mechanism design, incentive theory, and relational contracts. The topics he has worked on include earnings management, accounting conservatism, financial accounting standard setting and regulation, corporate governance, information system design, performance measurement, and managerial compensation. He has published more than 50 research papers in leading journals in accounting, economics, and related fields.

Before joining Columbia, Jonathan was on the faculty of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University from 1992-2015, where he taught a variety of MBA courses on financial and managerial accounting and a PhD course on accounting and information economics. He served as Head of the Ph.D. Program at Tepper from 2008-2011. He also held visiting positions at U.C. Berkeley in the spring of 2000 and at Columbia during 2014-2015. Professor Glover was an academic fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2004-2005.

Professor Glover is the incoming managing editor of Foundations and Trends in Accounting, an outgoing editor of The Accounting Review, has been an associate editor of Management Science, and serves or has served on the editorial boards of the The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Review of Accounting Studies. 

Jonathan graduated from the Accounting Honors Program at The Ohio State University in 1988 and from Ohio State’s PhD Program in Accounting in 1992. Ohio State’s Omicron Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi awarded him their Alumnus of the Year Award in 2016.

Indian School of Business

Sanjay Kallapur

Professor Sanjay Kallapur teaches Valuation and Financial Accounting at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Prior to joining the ISB, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He has also taught at the University of Arizona, University of California at Irvine, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and National University of Singapore.

Professor Kallapur is a member of the American Accounting Association. He has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for almost all the major accounting journals, and was an editor of The Accounting Review from June 2008 to May 2011. He is also an associate editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics.

He is an External Director of LIC. He has written for popular media, and his work has been quoted by newspapers.

University of Texas at Dallas

William M. Cready

William M. Cready is Adolf Enthoven Distinguished Professor in Accounting and Information Management, and Ashbel Smith Professor in Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Indian School of Business

Sanjay Kallapur

Professor Sanjay Kallapur teaches Valuation and Financial Accounting at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Prior to joining the ISB, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He has also taught at the University of Arizona, University of California at Irvine, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and National University of Singapore.

Professor Kallapur is a member of the American Accounting Association. He has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for almost all the major accounting journals, and was an editor of The Accounting Review from June 2008 to May 2011. He is also an associate editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics.

He is an External Director of LIC. He has written for popular media, and his work has been quoted by newspapers.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

James Ohlson

Professor James Ohlson graduated from the University of Stockholm in the 1960’s, receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and a Master’s degree in Political Science.  Afterwards, he studied for the Master of Business Administration at the University of California in Berkeley and also completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree there in 1972.  Professor Ohlson started his academic career at Stanford University in 1972.  He then joined the University of California in Berkeley as Assistant Professor in 1974 and was promoted to Associate Professor and appointed as L.H. Penney Professor of Accounting from 1984 to 1987.  Professor Ohlson then joined Columbia University in 1987 and New York University in 1998 as Professor, and Arizona State University in 2004 as the W. P. Carey Chair in Accountancy.   

Professor Ohlson has lectured around the world and has received various distinguished recognitions and awards, including the American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to Literature Award, 1995; the American Accounting Association Educator of the Year Award, 1998; the American Accounting Association Wildman Award, 1998; the AICPA/American Accounting Association’s Notable Contribution to Literature Award, 2000; University Regent Professor, Arizona State University, 2008; Chiang Jiang Scholar 長江學者講座教授 (sponsored by Tongi University, Shanghai 2012); the American Accounting Association Award for Seminal Contribution to the Literature, 2013; British Petroleum Centennial Professor, London School of Economics, 1993-94;and Member of The Accounting Hall of Fame, 2015.

ESSEC Business School

Adrian Zicari

Adrian Zicari is Professor in CSR & Performance at ESSEC Business School, as well as Academic Director at the Council on Business & Society, and honorary representative for Buenos Aires city in Paris.

IE Business School

Concepción Galdón

Concepción Galdón is IE University’s Social Innovation Director/Academic Lead. At IE she has the mandate to promote Social Innovation academic content across Schools and Programs, encourage more research in Social Innovation and reach out to organizations and partners interested in Social Innovation. Concepción is professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IE. Concepción is also President of the social Venture Puentes Global, which she co-founded in 2009. She´s a member of Ashoka Spain’s Venture Board and of investment committees of several impact funds.

Concepción is an Economist by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She holds a Master in Public Administration and International Development by Harvard Kennedy School. Concepción holds a PhD in International Economy and Development by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, who granted her and Outstanding Award for her Doctoral Dissertation. Her PhD research focuses on the use of technology in social entrepreneurship. She has published papers in peer reviewed journals and chapters in books. She writes contributions for mass media regularly and is a speaker at international conferences.

Her past professional experience includes the foundation of an NGO, UN’s Procurement Service, Santander Bank’s Latin America Division and Liberia’s Government under Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Prize 2011.

Trinity College Dublin

Tanusree Jain

Tanusree Jain is an Assistant Professor in Ethical Business at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD from ESADE Business School (2015) in CSR and Corporate Governance. She received her initial education in India with a Bachelors and Masters of Commerce (University Topper), an Mphil in Organization Behavior from Delhi School of Economics (First Class), and a Master of Research in Management Sciences from ESADE (Spain).

Tanusree’s research in situated at the intersection of CSR and Corporate governance. Her PhD work led to the conceptualization and measurement of corporate stakeholder orientation and its comparative assessment across emerging and western geographies.

Her current research interests include assessing antecedents of corporate stakeholder orientation, impact of CSR regulations, and various aspects of diversity such as women on boards. She is also interested in emerging country research, particularly India and the Middle East. 

She is a member of the AOM, SBE, EGOS and IABS. Her PhD research received SBE Founder’s Award for Emerging Scholar in Business Ethics in 2013. She is an Associate Editor of Business Ethics: A European Review (BEER) and an invited reviewer for Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Business & Society, Management International Review, California Management Review, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. She is the co-founder of CSRintel (www.csrintel.com)—a knowledge initiative that guides corporate and public policy on CSR.