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Updated: 22 September 2008
Biography
has been employed by IRES since 1973 and its director since 1998. An economist and business studies graduate, with a post-graduate diploma in economy management she is the co-ordinator of labour market research at IRES. In this capacity, she has co-ordinated various research groups on themes concerning the labour market and policies to reduce unemployment, social exclusion and to promote equal opportunity. She has carried out studies on new form of employment (related to ICT: teleworking); labour market segmentation and local market indicators in the prospective to revitalise local areas with deficit of development. She has also organised various seminars and workshops, promoting debate and discussion on these topics with people from different areas (University, institutions, and trade unions). She has also published widely and is an acknowledged authority on issues in the labour market.
Duco Bannink
lecturer, is an expert in the field of social security studies. He received his PhD from the University of Twente, thesis on the logic of social security reform. He participated in the FP6 program WORKS (Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society), the FP5 program Private Pensions and Social Inclusion and he acted as a coordinator of the Dutch contribution to Employment Initiatives for an Ageing Workforce (European Foundation of Working and Living Conditions, 2006). He is involved in various national research projects in the fields of social and labour market policies. He teaches in the fields of European studies, policy implementation and reform and private service provision and management.
Christian Bellak
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Vienna University of Economics, Austria. His research interest includes Industrial Policy, Foreign Direct Investment Theory, Effects of Inward and Outward Investment on Home and Host Countries, Measurement of FDI - Statistical Problems, Foreign Direct Investment and Taxation and Comparative Performance of domestic and foreign firms. Previously, he has been a Research Fellow in Finland (Helsinki School of Economics, Faculty Member at the Department of International Business, August 1990 and September 1991 -February 1992), Visiting Lecturer (EU Mobility programme, Helsinki, September 1997), Researcher at the University of Reading, Department of Economics (February 1994-November 1994) and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Mauritius (February 2005 and 2007). He has acted as an evaluator and editor for a number of journals.
Dr. Chris Benner is an Associate Professor of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. He is also a research associate at the Keystone Research Center (Harrisburg), the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community at University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Sociology of Work Program at University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). He is the author of Work in the New Economy (2002) and co-author of Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy (2007). Benner’s research focuses on the relationships between technological change, regional development, and the structure of economic opportunity, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment patterns. His applied policy work focuses on workforce development policy, the structure, dynamics and evaluation of workforce intermediaries, and strategies for promoting regional equity. Prior to joining UC Davis, he was an Assistant Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to that, he was a research associate at Working Partnerships USA, a dynamic non-profit advocacy organization in Silicon Valley working to rebuild links between economic policy and community well-being. Benner’s work has also included providing technical assistance to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), analyzing regional development strategies for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), evaluating workforce development programs for the Keystone Research Center and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry and serving on technical advisory boards for the Urban Habitat Program (San Francisco), the Center for Policy Initiatives (San Diego) and the California Economic Strategy Panel. He received his doctorate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.
António Brandão Moniz
Associate Professor of Industrial Sociology at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (UNL-New University of Lisbon), since 1983. Is president of the Department of Applied Social Sciences since 2001. Has the professorship since 1999, and the habilitation for full professor (‘Agregação’) since 2001. He is a founding member and President of the Research Center on Enterprise and Work Innovation (IET), from 2002. Visiting researcher at Fraunhofer Institut ISI FhG (Karlsruhe, Germany), 2002-2003, and Visiting Scholar at the Brown University, Providence (USA), 1999. Director of journals ‘Organizações e Trabalho’ (Organisations and Work) of APSIOT/Celta since 1998, and ‘Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies’ of IET since 2005. Member of IFIP-TC9 ‘Relationship between Computer and Society’ and of ISA-International Sociological Association.
serves as Chief of the Division of Local Area Unemployment Statistics in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ms. Brown is responsible for the Bureau’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program for developing employment and unemployment estimates for States and substate areas, and the Bureau’s Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program for developing plant closing and mass layoff data on affected establishments and workers. Her contributions to the programs have been in the areas of technical improvements and innovations in estimation and analysis. In the MLS program, she directed the efforts to identify job loss associated with offshoring and outsourcing, and the program remains the only US source of such statistics. She led the recent MLS program redesign which included implementing the collection of Business Functions and Business Processes involved in the layoff. Ms. Brown is also a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Thomas Coutrot
is head of the 'Work conditions and occupational health' Department at Direction de l'Animation de la Recherche, des Etudes et des Statistiques (Dares), Ministry of Labour, Paris. His research as a statistician relates to the conception and exploitation of statistical surveys on industrial relations, work organisation and occupational health. As an economist he carries out research on industrial relations, health and safety policies and economic efficiency.
Previously, he was deputy chief of Mission Analyse Economique (Dares) (1993–2002), chief of the wage studies department (Dares) (1990-1993), visiting professor at the Economics Department of Brasilia University (UnB), Brazil (1988–1990) and researcher at Centre d'Etudes des Revenus et des Coûts (CERC), Planning Commission, Paris. (1981-1987).
Daniele Di Nunzio
a sociologist, works as researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute (IRES) in Italy, specialising in the area of safety studies. His recent work focused on varying distribution of risk factors and on workers’ perceptions of health and safety. He is a Ph.D student in Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
born in 1959, is the scientific director of Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA).
He studied at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and accomplished a Post-Graduate-Study in Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna in 1985. He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies from 1986 to 1990 and received the doctorate from the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna in 1989. A visiting research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, in 1991, he was appointed head of the Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA) the same year. He has taught at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and is now teaching sociology at the University of Vienna.
His main research interests are work organisation and ICT, internationalisation and employment relations.
Main research areas: work organisation and ICT, skills and employment, internationalisation, employment relations.
is head of the Labour Market Research Department of Employment Observatory Research-Informatics SA (‘PAEP’, Athens) for the last 4 years. He has participated in international research projects and fora sponsored by the European Commission such as ‘Flexcom’ (Flexibility and Competitiveness in the Knowledge-based Society) and ‘EWON’ (European Work Organisation Network). He has published articles and books on work organisation and flexibility issues, the most recent being Faces of Flexibility in Greece and the European Union. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Karen Geurts
worked as a researcher at the Steunpunt WAV, the Resource Centre for Labour Market Research, located at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 2000 to 2006. There she contributed to the annual reporting on the Flemish labour market in the framework of the European Employment Strategy. The principal focus of her research was the improvement of the quality, availability and (international) comparability of labour market statistics. She explored large-scale Belgian and European surveys and was engaged in establishing the Labour Market Datawarehouse, a databank that links together several administrative sources on Belgian labour market statistics. She has published on sectoral and regional employment, entrepreneurship, Flemish and European labour market policy, and gender segregation in education and employment.
In 2006 she joined the Work and Organisation research group at HIVA, where she is conducting research into the employment effects of economic globalisation. She is engaged in the WORKS project and in the Flemish research project KEROSINE, which is funded by IWT, the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders. The research objective of KEROSINE is to gain a better understanding of economic restructuring and organisational innovation in the Flemish economy.
Nathalie Greenan
is a graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) and a laureate of the ‘Agrégation de sciences sociales’. She has received a PHD in economics at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Nathalie Greenan worked at the French National Institute of Statistics and Economics Studies (INSEE) between 1990 and 1996 and is now a CNRS researcher appointed full time at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi where she directs the ‘dynamics of organizations and work’ unit. Her main interests are in the theoretical and empirical study of organizational and technological change within firms, trying to assess the economic performances of these changes and their impact on the labor market (job content and job satisfaction, skill mix, turnover, wage structure). She has also been responsible for the development of a matched employer / employee survey on these topics in collaboration with the national statistical office and she has worked on related methodological issues.
Peter Hasle
is a senior researcher at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Denmark. He holds a master degree in socioeconomic planning and a PhD in occupational health and safety. He has worked both as a consultant and a researcher in the field of psychosocial factors at work and strategies for improvement of quality of work. Other scientific activities include: as research director at Centre for Alternative Social Analysis (1990-2002) he was a project leader for a large number of Danish and international research projects. Since 2002, he has been a project manager for projects at Department of Engineering Manufacturing and management (IPL) at the Technical University of Denmark. He also has been an adviser the ILO and is the author of a number of books and numerous publications.
is a senior researcher at Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA) in Vienna. She is a sociologist and a ‘Privatdozentin’ of sociology at Duisburg/Essen University she has held visiting appointments at Duisburg, Vienna and Mainz University and most recently been a Visiting Scholar at the ILRScholl, Cornell University. She is one of three co-ordinators of the ‘Global Call Centre Industry Project’ (www.globalcallcenter.org).
Will Hutton
is chief executive of The Work Foundation, an independent, not for dividend research based consultancy which is the most influential voice on work, workplace and employment issues in Britain.
Will began his career as a stockbroker and investment analyst, before working in BBC TV and radio as a producer and reporter. Prior to joining The Work Foundation, Will spent four years as editor in chief of the Observer and he continues to write a weekly column for the paper.
Will has written several best-selling economic books including The World We’re In, The State We’re In, The State to Come, The Stakeholding Society and On The Edge with Anthony Giddens. In addition, he won the Political Journalist of the Year award in 1993.
In 2004, Will was invited by the EU Commission to join a High-level Group on the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and he acted as rapporteur for the report.
Other roles Will performs outside The Work Foundation include: Governor of the London School of Economics; Honorary Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford; Visiting Professor, Manchester University Business School and Bristol University and is a member of the Scott Trust. He is also a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute.
Will’s latest book, The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century, was published in the UK in January 2007 by Little, Brown.
is Professor of International Labour Studies at London Metropolitan University and the director of Analytica Social and Economic Research Ltd. She is also the editor of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Ursula Huws has been carrying out pioneering research on the economic and social impacts of technological change, the telemediated relocation of employment and the changing international division of labour in services for 25 years. The author of The Making of a Cybertariat: Real Work in a Virtual World (New York, Monthly Review Press, 2003,) she has directed a large number of international research projects in in Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Australia and carried out consultancy for government bodies in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. An internationally recognised expert on offshore outsourcing, she has authored a large number of research reports for international and national government bodies as well as writing and editing many books and articles aimed at more popular audiences. Her work has appeared in translation in Swedish, German, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Danish, Portuguese, Turkish, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese and Korean.
Helge Hvid
Professor Helge Hvid is head of ‘Centre for Working Environment and Working Life’ at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is involved in several project concerning new trends in work organisation, psychosocial working environment, deterioration of traditional boundaries in working life and the recreation of new ways of control.
Vassil Kirov
is a Research fellow in the Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and independent consultant. He teaches at the Sofia University ‘Sv. Kliment Ohridski’ and the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers (ENSAM) Cluny, France. He holds a Master degree in Human Resource Management and a PhD in Sociology from the Paris Institute for Political Sciences and has a vast experience and policy-oriented and applied research and expertise in the area of work organisation, enterprise development and social dialogue in Central and Eastern Europe, undertaken under various projects funded by the European Commission, ILO, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, UNDP.
Bettina-Johanna Krings
M.A., Senior Researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Studies in political sciences, sociology and anthropology in Heidelberg. Working experiences in Latin America. Since 1994 research activities at ITAS on different issues like i.e. science and technology policy, gender studies, research policies for a sustainable development. Since 1999 strong focus on the relationship between information technologies and consequences on working conditions as well as labour markets. She has written several projects and publications on these issues.
Ekaterina Kalugina
Graduated from Paris 1 University and Higher School of Economics of Moscow, Ekaterina Kalugina is an assistant professor of Economics at Nantes University and also a research associate at CEE (France) within the ‘dynamics of organizations and work’ unit. Her research interests include poverty and inequality, labour economics and household economics. Her research has contributed to understanding poverty determinants in Russia, with a particular attention to the various forms of employment status on the Russian labour market and to their impact on poverty. Theoretical and empirical analysis of intra-household inequality using subjective data (life and income satisfaction questions) is a second research axis. Finally, within the WORKS project Ekaterina Kalugina is involved in the quantitative pillar. Together with the CEE team of the project she has been exploiting the European Working Conditions Surveys (EWCS) in order to map and draw trends in work organisation in Europe over the last decade. Her ongoing research mainly focuses on empirical study of different dimensions of organizational change in Europe.
is a sociologist, and senior researcher at The Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Brazil. Specialised in Sociology of Work, she was Editor of the Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios del Trabajo, between 1997 and 2000 and has participated of several research projects on globalization, productive restructuring and working conditions with international researchers teams from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex; Laboratoire Travail et Mobilité at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Sociale (CNRS); The Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; and Programa de Posgrado en Estudios Laborales at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México. She is a member of the Editoral Board of the Journals: Sociología del Trabajo, from Spain; Trabajo, from México; Revista Organizações e Trabalho, from Portugal; Revista Latinoamericana de Sociología del Trabajo; and Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies-Journal of IET Research Centre. Since January this year, she has been member of the International Scientific Board of IET. She is now coordinating a national project in Brazil about The flexibilization and the new forms of the atypical work.
Francisco Louçã
is a professor of Economics at the school of economics and management (ISEG), in Lisbon. He has published ‘Turbulence in Economics’ (1997), ‘As Time Goes By’ (2002, with Chris Freeman) and ‘The Years of High Econometrics’ (2007).
Professor Csaba Makó is specialized in organizational changes (innovations), learning organisation and in their institutional (e.g. labour relations) contexts in national (regional, sector) and international context. He graduated at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences – Budapest – Hungary (1968) and received Academic Doctors’ Title in Sociology (1983). Presently, he has a position as a Research Director at the Institute of Sociology – Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1997, as a research coordinator has participated in several EU Projects (e.g. ‘Regional Innovation System’ (REGIS: 1997 – 1998), ‘Estimation and Mapping Relocalisation of Employment in the Global Information Society’ (EMERGENCE: 2000 – 2002), ‘Technology, Economics and Diversity in the Periphery’ (TEDIP: 2002 – 2003), ‘Statistical Indicators, Labour Market, e-Economy’ (STILE: 2001 – 2004), ‘Work Organisation and Restructuring the Knowledge Society’ (WORKS: 2005 – 2009).
Beside research responsibilities, Csaba Makó has full time professorship at the Debrecen University – Department of Economics and is a head of the Ph.D. School in Economics (since: 2004) and half time professorship at Budapest Corvinus University – Institute of Management and Organisation, since 1992).
He is an advisory expert from the Central European region for the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILTP), since: 1994 -) and is a member of the advisory committee of such reviews as ‘Journal for East European Management Studies’ (JEEMS), since: 1995, ‘Journal of Employment’, since: 2000, ‘Zarzaadzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi’, since: 2000).
has been the President of IRES (Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali) since 2000. With a long and distinguished career in trade unions, he spent the 90s as the General Secretary of the Italian Federation of Textiles and Clothing Workers (Filtea-Cgil). Between 1991 and 1995 he directed the Committee on Industry Committees Business Europeans (EWCs), becoming later the President of the European Textile Industry Committee contract. From 1995 to 2000 he was also vice-president of International Textile Trade Union (ITLWG). As an expert in industrial relations, he has published numerous articles and essays about issues such as wage dynamics, collective bargaining, social dialogue and changes in the labour market.
is a sociologist and has worked at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISF-München, a private non-profit research institute, since 1991 and is currently a senior research fellow and director of international studies there. Her research interests include: Training and competence development in new forms of geographically distributed work; the impact of project-based organisation on work and workers in global value chains; the changing institutional structure and role of industrial relations in international comparison; the interaction between globalisation and national adaptation processes. She conducts and coordinates research projects for the European Union, the German Ministry of Research and Technology (e.g. a project on the Future of Work and its research implications); the Volkswagen Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. Her publications and edited volumes include: Technology and Work in German Industry; Globalisierung industrieller Produktion; Industrielle Fachkräfte für das 21. Jahrhundert; die (Un)Sichtbare Hand: Nationale Systeme der Arbeitsregulierung in der Ära des Shareholder Value, plus numerous articles in both English and German language books and journals.
Marcello Pedaci
studied sociology and economy and he holds a Doctorate degree in economic sociology. He worked and works as researcher for several institutes. He has been working for Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali (IRES) since 2002. He teaches Economic Sociology and Sociology of Labour at the University of Teramo. His research interests include changes in production systems and work transformations (above all flexible work practices, non-standard employment, precariousness, evolving forms of power and control in the organisations and in the labour market), industrial relations and evolving forms of labour conflicts, social inequalities.
Philippe Pochet
political scientist, has been director of the "Observatoire social européen". He is Adjunct Professor, Griffith University (Australia), invited lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and affiliate at the Centre of European Studies (Free University of Brussels). He is the Digest Editor of the Journal of European Social Policy. His main research fields are: social impacts of the monetary union, social dimension of the European Union, the open method of coordination, challenges of the globalisation process and the new modes of governance. He is currently General Director of the European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety (ETUI-REHS),
Valeria Pulignano
is Professor in Sociology of
Labour and Industrial Relations at the Katholieke
Universiteit of Leuven (Belgium). She is also an
Associate Fellow at the Industrial Relations
Research Unit (IRRU) at Warwick University and at
the University of West of England (UK). She has
been Visiting professor at the School of
Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell
University (USA) and Visiting Research Fellow at
the UNICAMP - University of Campinas (Brazil).
Her main research field is comparative industrial
relations in European and no-European countries.
A central aspect of her work concerns systems of
workers' representation at both European and
national levels, labour internatioanlism, trade
unionism, change in work organization and labour
markets. She is authors of publications in
Industrial Relations Journal, Work Employment and
Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations,
Economic and Industrial Democracy.
José Ricardo Ramalho
is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology, Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also is a Member of the Board of the Research Committee 30 – Sociology of Work - International Sociological Association (ISA). He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His main research themes are: Restructuring of work and industrial organisations; trade unions; multinational companies and local economic/social development; new kinds of work, flexibility, subcontracting and precariousness at work. New industrial districts and globalisation.
is a research manager at the Work and Organisation unit of the Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B). Her research topics include organisational change, changes in work related to company restructuring, labour market issues and the social dialogue. Her research experiences include the management and co-ordination of large-scale international projects, the management of a research team and personal long-standing experience in research in the area of work and organisation.
After her studies in sociology in 1985, she first joined the Work and Organisation section of the Department of Sociology – K.U.Leuven. After that (1990-95), she worked as an advisor at the Flemish Foundation for Technology Assessment, where she conducted research on issues such as the impact of technological innovation on the organisation of work, outsourcing, flexibility and the position of female workers on the labour market. In 1995, she returned to the university at the Steunpunt Werkgelegenheid Arbeid Vorming, where she was responsible for the statistical monitoring of the Flemish labour Market. From 1999 to 2000, she joined the EC to participate at the evaluation of EU research programmes.
Since her appointment at HIVA (September 2000), she has been coordinating several EU-funded research projects, of which the most important are: STILE – Statistics and Indicators on the Labour Market in the eEconomy - a 5FP project of the IST programme- Eurostat (2001-2004) and WORKS .– Works and Organisation Restructuring in the Knowledge Society - an Integrated Project, including 17 European partners and funded in Thematic Priority 7 - Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge-based Society (6FP) (2005-2009). Further, she is one of the co-promotors of KEROSINE, a Flemish IWT-SBO project on the position of Flanders in the globalised economy (2006-2010). She has also been involved as a research partner in several international and national research project.
Emilio Reyneri
1998-…: Professor of Sociology of Work, University of Milan Bicocca
1984-1998: Professor of Economic Sociology, University of Parma
1981-1984: Professor of Sociology of Work, University of Catania
1971-1980: Associate Professor of Sociology of Work, University of Catania
1999-2005: Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan Bicocca
From 1992 to 1995 he was member of the Management Committee of the EU project COST A2 on Migration.
He was appointed by the Italian Government in several Advisory Boards concerning labour policies and immigration; in particular from 1998 to 2001 he was appointed in a Government Committee that was charged to monitor policies for integrating immigrants.
From 1992 to 1994 he was Italian correspondent of an EU project on “Unemployment in Europe” co-ordinated by the Nuffield College, Oxford (UK). From 1996 to 1998 he was the co-ordinator of a TSER-EU project on “Migrants’ insertion in the informal economy, deviant behaviour and the impact on receiving societies”, involving research teams from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Italian partner of an EU project on “The political economy of migration in an integrating Europe”, co-ordinated by M. Baganha. Since 2005 member of the Governing Council of the Network of excellence EQUALSOC (Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion)
Visitor at Nuffield College, Oxford and Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris.
His main topics of research are European labour markets, labour and employment policies, migration and ethnicity.
His publication list contains 7 books in Italian and more than 100 articles in academic journals and collected papers, some of which in French and English. Member of the Editorial committee of the journals Stato e mercato and Sociologia del lavoro. Referee of the journals Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Dr. Hans-Joachim Schulz
is working for the National Executive Board (Bundesvorstand) of Ver.di (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft), German trade union since 2001. He is the director for the division of ' Innovation and quality of work'. Previously, from 1977 to 2001, he worked at research and advice institutes, carrying out research on innovation and improvement of working conditions. His qualifications include a postgraduate degree in mathematics (Dipl. Math) and a PhD in politics (Dr. rer. Pol).
holds a master's degree in finance and banking from Warsaw School of Economics (1997-2003), as well as a master's degree in international relations, with specialisation in European integration from the Special Programme of European Studies: Warsaw School of Economics-Sciences Po (2000-2002). From 2003 to 2005 he was a researcher and project manager at Warsaw School of Economics. Since 2005 has has been a Scientific Officer at the European Commission, DG Research – Research in the Economics, Social Sciences and Humanities - Prospective. His scientific interests include: capital markets, finance, macroeconomics, monetary integration. Currently, he is responsible, on behalf of DG Research, for research projects around corporate social responsibility, demography, financial markets, privatisation, as well as the Lisbon goals.
Birgit Stimmer
has studied economics (Betriebswirtschaftslehre) at the University of Innsbruck (1989-1973) and received a postgraduate degree (Mag. rer soc oec.). From 197 to 1981, she was an assistant professor (Universitätsassistentin) for Economics Affairs, at the University of Innsbruck. From 1981 to 2000 she was a cicil servant with the Federal ministry for Social Affairs and Labour. In 1991 she became the director for the Labour Relations and equality between women and men division. Since 2000 she has been the acting director of the Labour Relations and equality between women and men division at the Federal Ministry for Economics Affairs and Labour, a board member of the governmental group of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, the Austrian Liaison Official of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy & Research, Vienna and a member of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
Donald Storrie
is acting Head the Employment and Competitiveness Unit at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin. Before joining the European Foundation in 2006, he was Director of the Centre for European Labour Market Studies at the University of Gothenburg. He has participated in numerous European research projects and was for many years a member of the European Employment Observatory. His has published research on a wide range of topics including: temporary work, the impact of job displacement on employee welfare, structural change in Europe and evaluations of active labour market policy. The latter studies were largely performed while he was employed by the Swedish Ministry of Labour. He has also lectured mathematics in Norway and was briefly editor of Business Survey, at Dagens Industri - the major Swedish business daily newspaper. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Economics.
has studied economics, sociology and women’s studies in Athens (University of Athens), Paris (Paris IX, Paris VII) and New York (NYU). She holds a Doctorate Degree in sociology of work (1994) (title of thesis: Computerisation and gender division of labour. The case of the National Bank of Greece). She has worked in business from 1974-1987, in a women’s research centre (Diotima) from 1988-1991, and in the European Commission (DG V-Equal Opportunities Unit) from 1991-1999. Her tasks in the EC included actions promoting women in the decision-making and the design of EU gender mainstreaming strategy. From 1999-2002, she was the Director of the Research Centre for Gender Equality (KETHI) in Greece. Her tasks included direction of research and studies as well as designing of positive actions in favour of women. She is currently Assistant Professor at PANTEION University (Department of Social Policy) teaching on Gender and Social Policy, Gender equality policies and European Social Policy. She is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and the scientific co-ordinator of the research Project ‘Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions (GEMIC)’ funded under EU FP7. Her latest book ‘The Gender of Social Policy’ was published in 2007.
is a Senior Research Affiliate at the Industrial Performance Center (IPC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studies a variety of global industries. He is also co-organiser of the Global Value Chains Initiative (http://www.globalvaluechains.org), principally funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Technology, Enterprise, and Competitiveness at the Doshisha Management School in Kyoto, Japan. Prior to these activities, Tim held a Research Associate position at MIT for four years, during which he served as Executive Director of the IPC’s Globalisation Study (http://globalization.mit.edu), and Globalisation Research Director for the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development. Prior to this, he served for two years as Director of the MIT/Carnegie Mellon Project on Globalisation and Jobs in the Automotive Industry, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Tim came to MIT from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Research Specialist at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy for five years while earning his Ph.D. in Economic Geography. In addition to his academic work, Tim has held a variety of industry and consulting positions. Tim’s work has been published in a variety of scholarly journals, edited volumes, and industry trade magazines. Tim’s field research has taken him to Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Spain, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Bill Taylor
has taught at City University of Hong Kong for the past 15 years and previously worked and studied in Japan and the UK. Bill's research and publications mainly examine Japanese multinational operations in Asia and industrial relations developments in China. Current research is concerned with international pressure on industrial relations reform in China and as part of this, Bill is a Fulbright Fellow to School of Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University (2007-08) and Visiting Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business & Government, Harvard (2008), and has participated in the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue Seminars since 2006.
MBA, Stockholm School of Economics, labour consultant and researcher at ATK Arbetstagarkonsultation AB, formerly union official at the Swedish Confederation for Salaried Employees. He has done consultancy assignments for local unions and management mainly in the public sector and carried out training programmes for unions. He has participated in research on co-determination, ICT-development, learning, restructuring and European Works Councils and has as published work on change processes, participation, learning, redeployment and EWC.
is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Technology and Society (SINTEF). Education: BSc in electronics, Narvik Technical College, 1985; MSc in industrial economics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1989; PhD in industrial economics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1993; (Title of dissertation. Use of evaluations of Norwegian Technology Transfer programs). His work experience: (1993), Research Scientist at SINTEF; (2004), Assistant Professor II, NTNU. His main fields of competence include: Evaluations and theory of evaluations; Public support systems for SMEs; Occupational Health and Safety Systems; Abseentism; Occupational Health. Certificates: Basic Health, Environmental and Security training for offshore work in the North Sea. He is also a editorial board member for the Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning.
is professor of public policy and governance at the VU University, Amsterdam. His research interests include the dynamics of welfare state reform, in the face of changing labour markets and the rise of new social risk patterns. Previously he was an associate professor in organisational sociology at the University of Twente. His main interests concern a) labour market and welfare state change, especially related to the emergence of the so-called knowledge society, and b) innovation of public governance and policy systems. Trommel received his PhD from the University of Leyden in 1995, on a thesis explaining the trend towards early exit from active labour participation. Recent publications include a book on ‘modernity and intractable policy problems’ and a report on the emergence of transitional labour markets.
is co-director of the Work & Technology Research Centre of the Fondation Travail-Université (FTU) and lecturer at the University of Namur (Institute for Informatics). After a postgraduate in nuclear physics (UCL) and some years of research in this area, he specialised in research on societal assessment of technological choices and science policy, mainly in two areas: on the one hand, information and communication technologies and on the other hand, innovation fostering sustainable development. In 1984, he created the Work & Technology Research Centre and since then he manages many projects concerning the social aspects of technological innovation, on a regional, national or European scale. He is author or co-author of various books and articles on technology and society, and on new forms of work in the information society.
Patricia Vendramin is co-director of the ‘Work and Technology’ research centre of the Fondation Travail-Université (www.ftu-namur.org). She has a PhD in sociology and master degrees in communication sciences and development studies. Her research interests concern the social and economic aspects of the information society, mainly in the areas of work transformations and e-inclusion. In the area of work, her main research interests are flexible work practices, women’s work, working time, distance working, new work organisation in manufacturing and services, evolving forms of labour relations and social bond at work. She has a long experience in research and networking at the European level. She is author or co-author of various books and articles, in French and in English.
is a research manager in the monitoring and survey unit of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin. She is involved in the European Establishment Survey as well as in the European Working Conditions Survey. She is also working on the European Working Conditions Observatory. She has been involved in numerous other research projects of the European Foundation, such as projects on working poor, on flexicurity and on case study guidelines. Before joining the European Foundation, Greet worked in the European Commission (DG EMPL) and in a task force on social protection for the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.
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