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co-organizing The Global Rise and Spread of Consumer Financial Services

She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is the author of Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (Stanford, 2008). Currently, she is pursuing two lines of research: analysis of emerging credit card markets in several emerging economies in Eastern Europe (with Akos Rona-Tas); and exploration into cultural meanings and economic values in the market for commercial surrogacy.

He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and a research associate at INRA, Paris. He is currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management. He has been a member of SASE since 2005.

He is a professor of Sociology and the director of the Center of Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University. His major ongoing research projects are: industrial upgrading, global production networks, and decent work in East Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe; an ongoing collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund and other co-sponsors on low-carbon technologies and U.S. jobs; an analysis of food safety and quality standards in several global food and agricultural value chains; engineering outsourcing and workforce development in the US, China, and India; and using a value chain perspective to analyse the competitivenes of North Carolina industries in the global economy.

She is a professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University for Oxford. Her research focuses on the connection between global corporate strategy, comparative business systems and human resource management, and understanding how business enterprises are governed in different ways in different locations, with specific attention to human resources and supply chains.

He is the Peter Moores University Lecturer in Chinese Business Studies at Oxford's Saïd Business School. A political scientist by training, Thun's research focuses on issues of industrial development in China. He is the author Changing Lanes in China: Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments and Auto Sector Development. His current project analyzes the dynamics of competition between indigenous and foreign firms in China's domestic market.

He is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and director of the International Tax LL.M. Program at the University of Michigan Law School. He specializes in corporate and international taxation. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury and to the OECD on tax competition and is a member of the Steering Group of the OECD's International Network for Tax Research and chair of the American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on Tax Policy.

He is a tenured research research fellow at the French National Institute of Research (CNRS). Additionally, he sits on the facuty of the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and is affiliated professor of corporate governance, responsibility and reporting at the CNAM of Paris. His research focuses on connecting accounting, economics, and law, including the analysis and implications of international accounting convergence and financialization.

He is the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the Yale School of Management, and Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research interests include financial reporting, dissemination of information in security markets, and statistical theory of valuation. A pioneer in the fields of experimental finance and experimental macroeconomics, he has published five books and more than 160 scholarly articles. He is a Past President of the American Accounting Association.

His research interests are in sociology of organizations, occupations and work, and economic sociology. He has focussed his work on Russia and the post-socialist experiences of work and organizational change, examining how hierarchies, status, authority, and collaboration are (re)constituted through inter-subjective and collective symbolic mechanisms. He has used qualitative methods, ranging from extended case methodology to ethnography, and his main orientation has been towards emergent social processes and phenomena.

He is a lecturer in Work and Organizations at King's College London, Department of Management. He is currently working on a book about the variegated implementation and institutionalization of lean production in the U.S. manufacturing field; a large-scale qualitative research project the competitive, institutional and local contextual determinants of variations managerial strategy and work organization in UK manufacturing; a multi-methods project on working conditions and unionization in low-wage industries in the U.S.; and a series of theoretical articles on a classical Marxist reorientation of the regulationist research program. Matt has been attending SASE since since 2004, when he was still a graduate student. As an interdisciplinary space for heterodox economics, SASE remains a core intellectual community for Matt.