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Dan
Breznitz (Assistant Professor Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy) received his BA Summa Cum Laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his PhD from MIT. He has been a fellow of the Social Science Research Council program on The Corporation as a Social Institution and an Alfred P. Sloan foundation graduate fellow at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center, where he is now a research affiliate. His PhD won a prize for best dissertation in industry studies from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. In the past, he was a visiting research fellow at the Media Lab Europe of Dublin. Breznitz’s interests are in social change and comparative political economy, specifically around interactions of science, technology, public policy, and industrial growth and transformation. Before pursuing his PhD at MIT, Breznitz co-founded and managed a software company in Israel. He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His publications include articles in
Industrial and Corporate Change and Industry and Innovation as well as a forthcoming book based on his dissertation “Innovation and the State: High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production - Ireland, Israel, & Taiwan.”
Stephen S. Cohen is a Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE). He holds a B.A. from Williams College and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Professor Cohen has extensive experience as an international economic consultant, having worked abroad with the OECD, the United Nations, the governments of France and Denmark, the Prefect of Paris, and the presidents of Columbia and Spain, as well as with several major European and Japanese corporations. In the United States, he has consulted to the White House, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, the House Banking Committee, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and the Department of Commerce, and with several major and smaller corporations. He has received numerous awards, fellowships and visiting professorships, including The Medal of Paris. His publications include:
The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections On Our Changing World, Manuel Castells, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
Reading Our Times, ed., with Michael Boskin, Richard Darmon, J. K. Galbraith,
Manufacturing Matters, with John Zysman, France in the Troubled World Economy, with Peter Gourevitch, and
Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model.
Anke Hassel recently joined the newly founded Hertie School of Governance in Berlin as a Professor of Public Policy. An established expert on unions and industrial relations, she held earlier appointments as a Professor of Sociology at the International University Bremen (IUB) and a Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Professor Hassel has published extensively on the evolution of industrial relations systems in Europe (with special emphasis on German developments). Her analysis of the emergence of ‘social pacts’ in Europe has been met with great interest in the United States. Professor Hassel’s
Negotiating Wage Restraint: Europe's Response to a New Economic Environment
will be published with Amsterdam University Press. In addition to her academic pursuit, Hassel is a frequent commentator in the German press. In 2003/2004, she was sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation to work for the Planning Department of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor.
Gary Herrigel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His research and writing have focused on the social construction of industrial practice in Europe (primarily Germany), Japan, and the United States in both contemporary and historical contexts. Methodologically, he is a qualitative and interpretive scholar, relying primarily on interview and archival research. Theoretically, he uses constructivist analysis to show how economic practices are constituted and shaped by social and political relations over time. He has paid particular attention to ways in which the most micro and local levels of interaction between the social and the economic in societies can expose possibilities for the transformation of institutional arrangements and forms of governance at macro levels. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Herrigel has published Industrial Constructions:
The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge, 1996) and co-edited
Americanization and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Postwar Europe and Japan (Oxford, 2000; with Jonathan Zeitlin).
Peer Hull Kristensen is a Professor at Copenhagen Business School and affiliated faculty of the International Center for Business and Politics. Embracing an approach to comparative political economy grounded in the sociology of work, Kristensen’s scholarship has made important contributions to the research program on national business systems. He is one of the premier experts on the dynamics present in the evolution of the Danish business system, having focused in his research on the importance of experimentation and skill formation systems in industrial organization. Methodologically, he uses field studies to understand the patterning of social systems, striving to combine the situational perspective of American pragmatism with that of long-term structuration (e.g. Elias) in his analysis of social interaction. Among his numerous publications are his recent
Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation (Oxford, 2004; with Jonathan Zeitlin) and his co-edited
The Multinational Corporation: Organizing across National and Institutional Divides
(Oxford, 2001; with Glen Morgan and Richard Whitley).
Jonah D. Levy received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1994. He teaches courses in the areas of comparative political economy, West European politics, French politics and social policy. Levy’s current research examines the relationship between partisanship and welfare reform in contemporary Western Europe, especially the existence of progressive solutions to the politics of reform. His publications include:
Tocqueville’s Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France
(Harvard University Press, 1999); Vice into Virtue? Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe, Politics and Society, June 1999;
Directing Adjustment? The Politics of Welfare Reform in
France, in Fritz Scharpf and Vivienne Schmidt (eds.),
From Vulnerability to Competitiveness: Welfare and Work in the Open
Economy, (Oxford University Press); “Globalization, Liberalization, and National Capitalisms”,
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, March 1997; and “The Twin Restorations: The Political Economy of the Reagan and Thatcher ‘Revolutions’”, (with Robert Kagan and John Zysman), in Lee-Jay Cho and Y. H. Kim (eds.),
Ten Paradigms of Market Economies.
Jim Millstein has been a Managing Director at the investment bank Lazard Frères & Co in New York since 2000. He recently headed a twenty-person-strong Lazard restructuring team that was hired by the United Auto Workers union to determine the financial challenges faced by General Motors. Subsequently, on the basis of the team’s report, the UAW agreed to deal that reduced General Motors’ liabilities in its employee retirement plan by $15 billion. From 1982 to 2000, Millstein was first an associate and then a partner at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He did his undergraduate work at Princeton, received a Masters from the University of California-Berkeley and graduated from Columbia Law School. In his private life, he coaches his daughter’s recreational basketball and travel soccer teams, and serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the Sound Shore Medical Center.
Michael Reich is a Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley and the current director of the Institute of Industrial Relations. His general research interests cut across areas of labor economics as well as the history of economic thought. Within labor economics, he is interested in institutional differences – such as managerial intensity and corporate governance structures – and their consequences for economic performance across the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. He also maintains interests in labor market segmentation and inequality in the United States. Finally, within the history of economic thought, he is interested in relating the evolution of economic thought in the 20th century to distinct historical stages and institutional structures of capitalism, as developed in his previous work on social structures of accumulation. His books include Work and Pay in the United States and Japan (Oxford, 1997; with C. Brown, Y. Nakata and L. Ulman) and his co-edited Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis (Cambridge, 1994; with D. Kotz and T. McDonough).
Petri Rouvinen holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics, and a M.A. and Ph.D., both from Vanderbilt University. He is currently Research Director Etlatieto Oy, a project research and information service subsidiary of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA). He has previously preformed research at ETLA, as well as winning a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European Forum. He has won a number of international grants, including the Fulbright, as well as coming in at the head of his class in the Reserve Officer School of the Finnish Army. He has worked broadly as a consultant on economic matters at a number of organizations, including the European Commission and the World Bank. He has published broadly in both Finnish and international publications. His works include: “ICT Clusters in Europe” The Great Central Banana and Small Nordic Potato,”
Information Economics and Policy (2002); “Characteristics of Product and Process Innovators: Some Evidence from the Finnish Innovation Survey,” Applied Economics Letters (2002); “R&D-Productivity Dynamics: Causality, Lags and ‘Dry Holes,’”
Journal of Applied Economics (2002); and “Nokia: An Extended Company with Local and Global Operations,” in P.N. Gooderham & O. Nordhaug (Eds.),
International Management Cross-Boundary Challenges.
Mari Sako is the Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Professor of International Business at Said Business School, Oxford University. Professor Sako studied at Oxford, LSE and Johns Hopkins universities and has held positions at the LSE as a lecturer and reader in Industrial Relations. Her research interests focus on the connections between global corporate strategy, comparative business systems and human resource management. As principal researcher of the International Motor Vehicle Programme (IMVP), she is leading a European team of researchers to study trends in modularisation and outsourcing in the global automobile industry. Her books include
Prices, Quality and Trust: Inter-firm Relations in Britain & Japan (Cambridge, 1992),
Japanese Labour and Management in Transition (Routledge, 1997; edited with Hiroki Sato),
How the Japanese Learn to Work (Routledge, 1998; with Ronald Dore) and Are Skills the Answer? (OUP, 1999; with Colin Crouch and David Finegold). Her new
Shifting Boundaries of the Firm is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Tobias Schulze-Cleven is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley, a Research Associate at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and a visiting doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Societies in Cologne, Germany. In his dissertation, he compares the national pathways to increasing labor market flexibility in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark. Schulze-Cleven came to Berkeley with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from Oxford University and experience as an undergraduate researcher at the Brookings Institution. Schulze-Cleven contributed “A Research Note on the Learning Organization” for
How Revolutionary was the Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions and Global Technology (Stanford, 2006, J. Zysman and A. Newman, eds.) and co-authored “How Do Wealthy Nations Stay Wealthy in A Digital Era: Challenges for the European Policy Agenda” (with J. Zysman).
Nicolas Veron is Chief Development Officer at BRUEGEL, a Brussels-based think tank devoted to the analysis of international economics. A French national and graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Corps des Mines in Paris, Veron has a background in both policymaking and corporate management, with previous experiences as senior corporate adviser to France ’s Labor Minister (1997-2000) and as Chief Financial Officer of MultiMania/Lycos France, an Internet company (2000-02). In 2002 Veron founded a financial-services consultancy, ECIF (Etudes et Conseil pour l’Information Financière), and is a recognized expert on accounting standard-setting and securities regulation. His publications include
L’Information financière en crise (Odile Jacob publisher), a book on the relation between accounting rules and evolutions of financial systems, the English translation of which is forthcoming with Cornell University Press. Veron is fluent in French, German, Spanish and English.
Steven K. Vogel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. H received his B.A. from Princeton, and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science for the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked as a reporter for the Japan Times in Tokyo and as a freelance journalist in France. He has taught previously at the University of California, Irvine and Harvard University. He specializes in the political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. He has written extensively on comparative political economy and Japanese politics, industrial policy, trade and defense policy. He has recently completed a book entitled Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are
Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Cornell, 2006). His earlier book,
Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries
(Cornell University Press, 1996), won the 1998 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He has also edited a volume entitled U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World (Brookings Institution Press, 2002).
Sara Watson is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at UC-Berkeley, and has been a visiting scholar at the Juan March Institute for Advanced Studies in Madrid. In her dissertation, Party Strategies and the Politics of Social Protection, she explores the development of divergent forms of welfare capitalism in Spain and Portugal since their transitions to democracy, and highlights the way in which the competitive context facing new political parties shapes patterns of social protection and labor market outcomes.
Margaret Weir is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of California Berkeley and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Berkeley in 1997, she was a Senior Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution (1992-1997) and a member of the faculty of the Government Department at Harvard University (1985-1992). Weir has written widely on social policy and politics in the United States. She is the author of several books including,
Schooling for All: Race, Class and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (Basic Books 1985; co-authored with Ira Katznelson,) and
Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (Princeton, 1992). She has also edited several books that deal with development of social policy in the U.S. Currently, Weir is working on a study of metropolitan inequalities in the United States, with a particular focus on the politics of coalition-building in metropolitan America during the past decade.
J. Nicholas Ziegler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. in European History from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. His interests include comparative political economy, European politics, and political ideologies. Before coming to Berkeley, Ziegler was Associate Professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. His current research focuses on the politics of institutional change in Germany and the European Union. His publications include Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany (Cornell: 1997; German edition, Campus Verlag, 1999); “Corporate Governance and the Politics of Property Rights in Germany,” Politics and Society (June 2000); “Institutions, Elites, and Technology Advance in France and Germany,” World Politics (April 1995); and essays in other journals and a number of edited volumes. Professor Ziegler has held fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the German Marshall Fund, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne.
John Zysman is Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at UC Berkeley. Professor Zysman received his B.A at Harvard and his Ph.D. at MIT. He has written has extensively on European and Japanese policy and corporate strategy; his interests also include comparative politics, Western European politics, and political economy. Professor Zysman's publications include
The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System
(Oxford University Press, 1992), Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy
(Basic Books, 1987), and Governments, Markets, and Growth: Finance and the Politics of Industrial Change (Cornell University Press, 1983).
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