Sharon Block was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor and Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Labor.
For twenty years, Block has held key labor policy positions across the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. Early in her career she worked as an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board, and returned to the NLRB in 2012 when she was appointed to serve as a member of the Board by President Obama. She was senior counsel to the Senate HELP committee under Senator Edward Kennedy, playing a central role in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act. She has held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Labor throughout her career. Recently, as head of the policy office at the Department of Labor, Block hosted - with Wage and Hour Administrator David Weil and Open Societies Foundation's Ken Zimmerman - the Department's three-day symposium on the Future of Work. The symposium brought together a wide array of thought leaders to address how changes in labor markets and business models have impacts on key issues such as enforcement, labor standards, workforce development, employee benefits, and data in the U.S. and around the world.... Read more about Sharon Block
Faculty Co-Director, Labor and Worklife Program Professor, Economics, Harvard University
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Co-Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.
Faculty Co-Director, Labor and Worklife Program Professor, Harvard Law School
Benjamin Sachs is the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School and a leading expert in the field of labor law and labor relations. Professor Sachs teaches courses in labor law, employment law, and law and social change, and his writing focuses on union organizing and unions in American politics.
Wertheim Fellow 9/2017-12/2017 Research on socio-legal interrelations of intimate labor and the law
Dr Einat Albin is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law since 2011. She works on the theory of labor and employment law and is... Read more about Einat Albin
Gokhan Aykac received his PhD in Economics from Gazi University. He is a research associate in Department of Economics, Gazi University and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University for the academic year 2016 – 2017 as Wertheim Fellow.... Read more about Gokhan Aykac
Wertheim Fellow Research on Labor Law and Equality
Dr. Hande Bahar Aykac received the bachelor’s degree in law from Ankara University Law Faculty, Ankara, Turkey in 2000. After completing her internship at the... Read more about Hande Bahar Aykac
Administrative Director, Labor and Worklife Program
Lorette holds a doctorate degree in Education from Northeastern University in the field of Organizational Leadership and Communication. Her thesis, A Qualitative Study Exploring the Post-Educational Experiences of Graduates of an Executive Program for Labor Leaders, covers an array of themes inclusive of Adult Education, Executive Program, Union Leadership, Labor Education, and Learning Transfer.... Read more about Lorette Baptiste
Erling Barth is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo and Professor II at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo, affiliated with ESOP. His PhD is from the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. He is Wertheim Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University, Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) at Cambridge, MA, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA, in Bonn.
His research interests include technological change and its effects on the labor market, the impact of labor market institutions, inequality and the wage structure, employment, the economics of the welfare state, gender wage differentials, immigration, ownership, labor mobility, and firms’ behavior.... Read more about Erling Barth
Larry W. Beeferman received a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School and a doctorate in applied physics from Harvard University. He joined the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School in 2004 to help establish the Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project.... Read more about Larry Beeferman
Wertheim Fellow Research on International Comparative Labor Movements Former Executive Director, Labor and Worklife Program, 1989-2017
Dr. Bernard served as Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program from 1989-2017. She has a BA from the University of Alberta, a MA from the... Read more about Elaine Bernard
Aaron Bernstein co-founded the Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project’s Investor Initiative in 2008 to help pension funds and other investors analyze the long-term investment risks of social factors such as labor and human rights and human capital.... Read more about Aaron Bernstein
Wertheim Fellow Research on firm entry and pollution control
Qingmiao Bi is a PhD candidate majoring in economics at Lingnan College of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and a fellow at Harvard University's Labor and... Read more about Qingmiao Bi
Wertheim Fellow Research on Retail Industry Behavior
Jörn Boehnke received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. He joined the Labor and Worklife Program as a postdoctoral fellow in 2017. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University.... Read more about Jörn Boehnke
Lingli Chen is a visiting scholar in the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard University for one year from March 2017 to March 2018. She did undergraduate... Read more about Lingli Chen
