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Bruno Amable is professor of economics at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, a research fellow with CEPREMAP, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of capitalism. He is the author of The Diversity of Modern Capitalism (OUP, 2003). Recent papers deal with the ideology of neo-liberalism, structural reforms in Europe and the future of European models of capitalism, and a comparison between the neo-liberal political strategies in France and Italy.

Elvire Guillaud is assistant professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and a member of the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES). Her research focuses on the political economy of redistribution, institutional change, and the evolution of political demand in a comparative perspective.

Moisés V. Balestro is a professor at the Research Center and Graduate Program on the Americas of the University of Brasilia and belongs to a research group on Comparative Studies in Economic Sociology. His research interests are in the area of public employment policies, state and development, rural development, innovation, and diversity of capitalism. Recently, his projects have focused on public employment policies in Brazil, territorial development, state-led markets in biofuels, and cluster competitiveness.

Marlon V. Brisola is is a doctoral candidate at the Research Center and Graduation Program on the Americas (CEPPAC) at the University of Brasilia and an assistant professor at the University of Brasília. His research interests are in the area of governance, rural development, agribusiness, market sociology, and diversity of capitalism. His recent projects have focused on economic groups and varieties of capitalism in Latin America.

Luiz Carlos de Brito Lourenço is a doctoral candidate at the Research Center and Graduation Program on the Americas (CEPPAC) at the University of Brasilia. He is currently studying the architecture of the “Strategic State” by comparing public policy on biofuel and renewable energies in Brazil and the USA. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology of the University of California, Davis with the support of Dr. Fred L. Block, is a member of the Research Group on Comparative Studies in Economic Sociology at the University of Brasilia and a lecturer in the Agribusiness MBA program of the University of São Paulo. His broad experience working in public administration in the fields of foreign trade and banking are at the origin of his interest in strategies of innovation for agriculture and energy development.

Tim Bartley is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington. His work lies at the intersections of political, economic, and organizational sociology. Most of his research focuses on transnational private regulation of labor and the environment—with particular attention to certification of sustainable forestry, labor standards, and “corporate social responsibility.” His current projects examine the interactions between social movements and firms, the evolution of transnational governance, and the uses and abuses of “corporate social responsibility” in developing countries, based on fieldwork in Indonesia and China.

Nicole Helmerich is a PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, which is a joint endeavor of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, and the Social Science Research Center Berlin. Her research focuses on social and labor rights standards and their implementation by private actors, transnational private regulatory initiatives, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Her doctoral dissertation is an analysis of the implementation of social and labor rights standards in the headquarters and the supply chains of six transnational corporations in the textile and apparel sector, with a special focus on Central America.

Olga Malets is a Lecturer at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy of the Technische Universität in Munich. She completed her doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Her research focuses on international forest and environmental policy and the local implementation of environmental and social certification standards.

Chikako Oka is a Lecturer at the School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London. She received her PhD from the London School of Economics. Her research interest lies at the intersection of management and labor regulation, with a particular interest in how buyers and suppliers interact to influence working conditions in global supply chains.

Joshua Bloom is Director of Programs and Development at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He studies social movements, labor, methodology, and race. He is co-editor with Ruth Milkman and Victor Narro of Working for Justice: the LA Model of Organizing and Advocacy (Cornell University Press, 2010). His work-in-progress, Pathways of Insurgency: Black Liberation Struggle and the Second Reconstruction in the United States, 1945-1975, compares three waves of postwar Black Liberation Struggle and argues that insurgent mobilization proliferates when movement actors develop practices which, given historically particular political cleavages, destabilize target institutions while drawing broad allied support. Before becoming an academic, Joshua worked for eight years as an organizer.

Chris Tilly is an economist specializing in labor, income distribution, and local economic development, with research focusing on the United States and Mexico. He is Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California Los Angeles. Tilly’s books include Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market, Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women’s Work, Women’s Poverty, Work Under Capitalism, Stories Employers Tell: Race, Skill, and Hiring in America, and The Gloves-Off Economy: Labor Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market.

Professor Richard Deeg is the head of the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, as well as the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin.  He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including Fulbright and Jacob K. Javits Fellowships. His publications include Finance Capitalism Unveiled: Banks and the German Political Economy (University of Michigan, 1999) and numerous articles on German and European political economy in various journals. His current research focuses on causes and mechanisms of institutional change in financial systems.  He was local organizer for the 2010 SASE Annual Meeting and has served on its executive council since 2010.

Orfeo Fioretos is associate professor of political science at Temple University, Philadelphia. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and publishes work on the politics of markets and international institutions. He is the author of Creative Reconstructions:  Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism After 1950 (Cornell University Press, 2011), and articles in International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, as well as chapters in edited volumes, including Making History (2007) and Varieties of Capitalism (2001).  He was a member of the local organization team for SASE 2010 in Philadelphia.

Natasha Iskander is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service.  She conducts research on labor migration and its relationship to economic development, with an emphasis on processes of institutional innovation and organizational learning. Her recent award-wining book, entitled Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Cornell University Press: 2010), examines how the governments of Mexico and Morocco elaborated policies to build a link between labor emigration and local economic development. Her current project investigates how international migration acts as a vehicle for human capital development, knowledge generation, and industry renewal. Empirically, she has focused on Mexican migrants in the US and Mexican construction industries.  Additionally, Dr. Iskander examines the impact on rapid rural-to-urban migration on the provision of urban water and sanitation, and its relationship to climate change.  She holds PhD in Management and a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a BA in Cultural Studies from Stanford University.

Devesh Kapur is Director, Center for Advanced Study of India (CASI) and Madan Lal Sobti Assoc. Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his current position he was a faculty member at Harvard and University of Texas, Austin. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington D.C.. He is the author/coauthor of The World Bank: Its First Half Century; Give us your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World; Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design. His most recent book is Diaspora, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India (Princeton University Press). His current research focuses on India’s governance and human capital challenges (especially higher education and skills development), the effects of economic liberalization on historically marginalized groups and its changing geopolitical engagements. He has a B. Tech and M.S. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Princeton University.

Christine Musselin is the director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, a research unit of Sciences Po and the CNRS. She leads comparative studies on university governance, public policy in higher education and research, state-university relationships, and academic labor markets. Two of her books, La longue marche des universités françaises (published by the P.U.F in 2001) and Le marché des universitaires, France Allemagne, Etats-Unis, were published in English translation by Routledge in 2004 and 2009, respectively.  She was a DAAD fellow in 1984-1985 and a Fulbright and Harvard fellow in 1998-1999. She is co-editor of Higher Education and a member of the editorial board of Sociologie du Travail.

Marino Regini is Professor of Economic Sociology and Vice-Rector of the University of Milan. Also, he is the director of the Italian Centre for Research on Universities and Higher Education Systems (UNIRES). He has long worked on industrial relations and political economy issues, but his current research focuses on institutional change in higher education. His most recent book is: European Universities and the Challenge of the Market: A Comparative Analysis, Edward Elgar (2011)

Chris Warhurst is co-organising the mini-conference The impact of global shifts on job quality. He is Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. His most recent co-edited work, the Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training, will be published in 2013. New co-authored books include Aesthetic Labour (Sage, 2012) and A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Work and Employment (Sage, 2013). His current research interest focuses on job quality. He is also co-editor, with Patricia Findlay, of Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (Palgrave, 2012), with whom he co-organized the ESRC-funded seminar series ‘Making bad Jobs Better’ from which a public interest report will be launched. He has provided advisory work on employment to government in the UK, Scotland, Australia and Hungary as well as the OECD.

Paul Osterman is the NTU Professor of Human Resources and Management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and the Department of Urban Planning, M.I.T. Osterman’s most recent books include Good Jobs America: Making Work Better For Everyone (Russell Sage, 2011); The Truth About Middle Managers: Who They Are, How They Work, Why They Matter (Harvard Business School Press, 2008). Osterman has been a senior administrator of job training programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and consulted widely to firms, government agencies, foundations, community groups, and public interest organizations. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.

Patricia Findlay is Professor of Work and Employment Relations and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Her published work on skills, skills valuation, learning and union engagement with skills and learning policy has appeared in a number of journals. She is co-editor with Chris Warhurst, Chris Tilly and Francoise Carre of Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? (Palgrave, 2012), with whom she also co-organized an ESRC-funded seminar series on ‘Making Bad Jobs Better’ (www.makingbadjobsbetter.org.uk). She works closely with labor and other organizations in developing effective approaches to skills and learning, recently completing commissioned work for STUC and Skills Development Scotland, and she is currently advising STUC on strategic development and capacity building to support union engagement with learning and skills development. She is an editorial board member of the journals Work, Employment and Society and Industrial Relations Journal, a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and a Lay Employment Judge.