Join us for the U.S. release and cross-sector discussion of
Report and Recommendations
by the ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work
January 31st, 2019 (9:00AM – 1:30PM)
Cornell ILR, 570 Lexington Ave (at 51st) New York, NY, USA
Co-Sponsored by the ILO Office of the United States
and the ILR School of Cornell University
BA in Economics and French, Tufts; Master's in International Affairs, Columbia. Former: Corporate Lending Officer, Credit Lyonnais USA; Legislative Assist for International Trade Policy to US Representative; Senior Legislative Assist to Chairman, Senate Banking Committee; International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Associate Director, Competitiveness Policy Council, & Staff Director, sub-Council on Capital Allocation; Economic Policy Adviser to Senate Minority Leader; Special Assistant to President for International Economic Policy, and Senior Director, National Security Council, White House; Director-General, Global Green Growth Institute. With the World Economic Forum: 2001-11, and since 2013, Managing Director; co-directs the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Since 2007, non-resident Senior Fellow for International Economic Policy, Center for American Progress, and Chairman, Climate Disclosure Standards Board. Expertise: international trade and financial policy, economic development, taxation, capital formation, international labour and environmental issues.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., was first sworn in as the District Attorney of New York County on January 1, 2010. Since then, Mr. Vance enhanced the District Attorney’s Office as a national leader in criminal justice by expanding its expertise on an array of 21st century crimes.
Mr. Vance’s achievements as District Attorney include the creation of the first Conviction Integrity Program and Crime Strategies Unit in the five boroughs; 24 indictments against gun traffickers, leading to the removal of more than 3,000 illegal firearms from city streets; dismantling 18 violent street gangs in Manhattan; the first convictions of individuals on State terror charges in New York; the dismantling of multiple domestic and international cybercrime and identity theft operations; and the recovery of nearly $12 billion dollars over the course of settlements with nine banks that violated U.S. sanctions.
District Attorney Vance was reelected in 2017, and is the co-founder and co-chair of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, an independent, non-partisan coalition of prosecutors from major jurisdictions across the country. He is also a co-founder of the Global Cyber Alliance a non-profit, cross-sector coalition focused on reducing digital vulnerability through the exchange of threat data and the development of open-source risk management solutions.
District Attorney Vance has also taken a national leadership role in addressing the issue of race in the criminal justice system, including commissioning a study by the non-partisan Vera Institute of Justice to evaluate the Office’s practices in charging, plea-bargaining, and bail. Using funds obtained through penalties leveled against financial institutions that violated U.S. sanctions, Mr. Vance has made a series of significant investments in transformative criminal justice initiatives in New York City and nationally. These programs include the testing of backlogged rape kits nationwide; equipping every NYPD officer and patrol car with handheld mobile devices and tablets; reducing the number of individuals with mental and behavioral health issues in the criminal justice system; and enhancing security in New York City Public Housing Authority developments.
Mr. Vance is a graduate of Yale University and Georgetown University Law Center.
Michelle Fleury is the BBC's New York Business Correspondent and one of the leading reporters in North America for BBC World News.
She's covered American business and economics for more than 10 years, working on all of the major stories of the era, including the global financial crisis, the financial collapses of Lehman Brothers and AIG, the jobless recovery and monetary policy.
Michelle regularly reports live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on financial markets and has extensive experience covering the Federal Reserve, the IMF, World Bank and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
As well as speaking at conferences, she has anchored a variety of general news programmes on BBC World News: from World News America which is also available on PBS stations in the United States, to half-hour business-focussed special programming such as Working Lives.
Before moving to New York, Michelle worked as a producer at the BBC's headquarters in London. She worked on the award-winning finance programme Working Lunch, as well as the BBC's UK and global business output, reaching audiences in over 200 countries.
Born in the UK, Michelle graduated from Warwick University. She now lives in Brooklyn.
John Irons leads the foundation’s Future of Work team, supporting US and global efforts to create economic opportunities and ensure that prosperity is widely shared regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or caste. Before joining Ford in 2016, John was managing director of Global Markets at the Rockefeller Foundation, leading initiatives in the US with a focus on employment and advising teams globally. Prior to that, he held positions at the Economic Policy Institute, the Center for American Progress, OMB Watch, and was a tenure-track assistant professor of economics at Amherst College.
John has published numerous reports and articles on a range of economic topics, including tax and budget policy, labor markets, and macroeconomic policy. He has served on the Committee on Electronic Publishing of the American Economic Association and on the boards of numerous nonprofit institutions, including the Coalition on Human Needs and the National Economists Club in Washington, DC.
The recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a graduate Fellowship from the Harvard/MIT Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy, John holds a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College.
Biju Mathew is co-founder and executive committee member of New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) and founding secretary of the National Taxi Workers Alliance. NYTWA - co-founded in 1998 with Bhairavi Desai, Javaid Tariq, and several others - is currently one of the most successful new immigrant workers unions in the US with over 17,000 members in NYC. His areas of work include immigrant labor organizing, left political education, and transnational solidarity campaigns. He is an associate professor of Information Systems and American studies at Rider University in New Jersey.
Esta R. Bigler, Esq., directs Cornell University ILR's Labor and Employment Law Program. This program brings together social scientists and attorneys to inform each other's work with the goal of addressing contemporary labor and employment law and workplace issues to influence litigation and public policy decisions by utilizing forums, conferences, and workshops. She develops programs by identifying critical and evolving labor and employment law issues and pending legislation and decisional law.
Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Louis Hyman attended Columbia University, where he received a BA in History and Mathematics. A former Fulbright scholar, Hyman received his PhD in American history in 2007 from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Harold K. Gross Prize for best dissertation in history at Harvard and the Krooss prize for best dissertation in business history nationally.
Damian Grimshaw is the Director of the Research Department. Previously, he was a Professor of Employment studies at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and Director the European Work and Employment Research Centre (EWERC). His research interests include the dynamics of low pay (particularly with respect to precarious employment and the management of low-wage work), women’s position in the labour market (e.g. pay equity), the relationship between institutions and inequalities, and international comparative analysis. His research has been funded by several international bodies (e.g. OECD, ILO, European Commission, Russell Sage Foundation).
Mr. Steven L. Berkenfeld, J.D. serves as Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Barclays Capital. Mr. Berkenfeld's roles at Barclays include Co-Head of the Firm's Cleantech Initiative and Head of Industrial Cleantech Banking. Prior to joining Barclays in September 2008, he served as the Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Legal, Compliance of Lehman Brothers, Private Equity Division. Mr. Berkenfeld served as the Vice President and Head of Corporate Advisory Division of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. As an Attorney at Lehman Brothers from 1987 to 2001, he had responsibility for all legal matters relating to Lehman Brothers' Investment Banking and Private Equity activities, as well as many of its Fixed Income and Equities businesses. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1987, Mr. Berkenfeld was an Associate at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and was engaged primarily in advising clients on mergers and acquisitions. He serves as Director of RSI Holding Corporation. He serves as the Chair of the Board of The Sierra Club Foundation Inc and has been its Director since June 27, 2013. He also is the sponsor of the Employment Sustainability Initiative on Employment and Technology at the ILR School of Cornell University. He also serves on the Sierra Club's Clean Tech Advisory Council. Mr. Berkenfeld holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University.
Alexander Colvin is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Diversity, and Faculty Development and the Martin F. Scheinman Professor of Conflict Resolution at the ILR School, Cornell University. He is an associate member of the Cornell Law Faculty. His research and teaching focuses on employment dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on procedures in nonunion workplaces and the impact of the legal environment on organizations. His current research projects include empirical investigations of employment arbitration and a cross-national study of labor and employment law change in the Anglo-American countries. He has published articles in journals such as Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Personnel Psychology, Relations Industrielles, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, and the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. He is also co-author (with Harry C. Katz and Thomas A. Kochan) of the textbook An Introduction to Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations, 4th edition (Irwin-McGraw-Hill).
Prof. Colvin received his J.D. in 1992 from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in 1999 from Cornell University. He received the 2003 Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) and the 2000 Best Dissertation Award from the IRRA for his dissertation entitled “Citizens and Citadels: Dispute Resolution and the Governance of Employment Relations”. Before joining the faculty of the ILR School in 2008, he taught at Penn State University from 1999-2008.
Diana Florence is the Attorney-Charge of the Manhattan District Attorney's Construction Fraud Task Force in which she collaborates with major city, state and federal agencies in order to more effectively target fraud and abuse within the construction industry. She has been a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for over 20 years and has won awards for her large-scale, industry-wide prosecutions. Ms. Florence, who has successfully taken over 70 cases to jury trial, achieved an industry-changing victory in the high-profile case of People v. Kancharla, where the executives of the largest materials testing company in the tristate area were convicted of racketeering and enterprise corruption and sent to state prison. She is also the co-author of a 2014 New York County Grand Jury report on Minority and Women Business Enterprise fraud. Most recently, she obtained homicide convictions against a construction foreman and a general contractor/construction manager for the death of a laborer on its multimillion-dollar construction site, one of the first convictions of its kind in New York. She is a tireless advocate of workplace safety and security for all construction workers but especially undocumented immigrants who are at most a risk for injury or death.
Irene Jor is the New York Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She first felt the power of the domestic worker rights movement in 2011 when she was completing a fellowship with the International Labour Organization in Bangkok, Thailand. Upon returning to the U.S. she began volunteering with the CA Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Campaign. She worked closely with Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employer’s Network to organize employers and subsequently wrote an academic thesis on the campaign’s engagement with disabled employers and the process through which they became allies to domestic workers. Irene joined NDWA's staff in 2013 as the Special Assistant to the Director. In this role, she supported Ai-jen Poo with managing her strategic relationships, portfolio of activities, and key aspects of her internal and external communications. As the New York Organizer, Irene supports NDWA's New York affiliates in their current multi-faceted domestic worker organizing efforts. She is also an alumna of City Year Miami's founding corps and the Young People For fellowship. Irene is a graduate of Stanford University where she earned a BA in Urban Studies and MA in Anthropology.
James Brudney joined the Fordham faculty after nineteen years at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he was Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law. Following graduation from law school, Professor Brudney clerked for the Honorable Gerhard A. Gesell of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. and then for Justice Harry A Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. He was associated for four years with the firm of Bredhoff and Kaiser in Washington, representing individuals and unions in constitutional and statutory matters.
Professor Brudney served for six years as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor. He has been Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. At Fordham, Professor Brudney principally teaches Labor Law, Employment Law, and Legislation and Regulation. His scholarly writing is in the areas of workplace law and statutory interpretation.
Professor Brudney is co-chair of the Public Review Board for the United Auto Workers International Union, and is a member of the Committee of Experts of the International Labor Organization. He received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to do research and lecturing at Oxford University in the Fall of 2000. In 2008, he received an Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Ohio State University. In 2014, he was selected as Professor of the Year by Fordham Law School Students.
Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY; Co-Chair of the Public Review Board of the United Automobile Workers Union of America (UAW); former Visiting Fellow, Oxford University, United Kingdom; former Visiting Faculty, Harvard Law School; former Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Labour; former attorney in private practice; and former law clerk to the United States Supreme Court.
Carol Carter is a national and international student success author, speaker, and entrepreneur. She began her career in college publishing with Prentice Hall, and became the first female assistant vice president and director of college marketing at age 26. Later, as V.P. and publisher, she developed the widely acclaimed Keys to Success series to help college students connect their academic success to their future professional success. Now in its eighth edition, the series is available in multiple languages, and has been used by more than 3,000,000 students worldwide. In addition to the Keys series, Carol has also authored multiple other academic success books for middle, high school, and college-level students.
In 2000, she started LifeBound, a student success company that provides academic and professional coaching skills training for K-12 and college faculty, advisors and staff. Carol’s business experience and her international work help shape her unique perspective on how institutions of learning, youth development, and businesses can prepare students from all backgrounds and levels of learning to thrive in an increasingly complex world. In 2014 she founded GlobalMindED to bring together leaders in education, government, business, and social enterprise committed to improving access and equity to education, employment and health. Now in its sixth year, the annual conference attracts more than 1000 attendees, including 100 first-generation college students who learn academic and professional skills while networking with companies who seek a diverse talent pipeline.
Carol has been a speaker in the Dominican Republic, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Kenya, China, Spain, and Switzerland. In addition to her professional travels, she has been a guest in over fifty countries.
Truman Packard is a Lead Economist and has worked in various operational positions at the World Bank since 1997. Trained as a labor economist, his work has focused primarily on the impact of social insurance - including pensions, unemployment insurance, disability benefits, and financial protection from adverse health events - on household labor supply decisions, saving behavior and risk management. Truman has been a part of World Bank teams providing lending and analytical assistance to governments seeking to improve the coverage and efficiency of education, health and social protection systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, and East Asia and the Pacific Island countries. He also served as Deputy Director of the World Development Report 2009 "Reshaping Economic Geography", and is a member of the Bank's Safety Nets Global Expert Team. Truman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Kelly Ross has been Deputy Policy Director of the AFL-CIO since 2010, and has been with the AFL-CIO since 2002. He has also been a member of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Governing Body and Committee on Freedom of Association since February 2015. He is currently staffing the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions. As AFL-CIO Deputy Policy Director, he works on policy formulation and implementation on a wide range of issues, including the future of work; labor protection for workers in the On Demand economy and other insecure workers; labor standards and employment policy; economic policy; and budget and tax policy. He was a senior staffer in the U.S. Congress for 10 years, most recently as Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and Minority Staff Director of the Employment Subcommittee of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the U.S. Senate. He holds an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University; an A.M. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University; and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Diane Burton is a faculty member in the ILR School at Cornell University. Her primary appointment is in human resource studies with courtesy appointments in organizational behavior and sociology. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 2009, she was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She started her academic career at the Harvard Business School teaching leadership and organizational behavior. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology at Stanford University and served as a lecturer and researcher in organizational behavior and human resources management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations ILO Office for the United States Kevin Cassidy, with over 33 years of international development experience, is currently the Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations for the International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for the United States.
Althea Erickson is the head advocacy and impact at Etsy, the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. Althea leads Etsy's efforts to advance public policies that make it easier for Etsy sellers to start and grow their creative businesses by empowering Etsy sellers as advocates for themselves. Althea also guides the execution of Etsy’s broader impact strategy, including delivering on its economic, social, and environmental impact commitments and its internal and external accountability strategy.
Prior to joining Etsy, Althea was the advocacy and policy director at Freelancers Union, where she led its successful campaign to repeal unfair tax laws, promoted legislation to protect freelancers from unpaid wages, and advocated for member-driven health insurance. Previously, Althea worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she focused on strategies to build economic security within the US workforce. She has a B.A in government and public policy from Wesleyan University.
Linda Barrington is the Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research in the ILR School at Cornell University. She is also the Executive Director of the Institute for Compensation Studies (ICS), an interdisciplinary initiative in that analyzes, teaches, and communicates broadly about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work. Barrington comes to the ILR School from The Conference Board, a global business membership and research organization. There, she held several positions over the past 10 years, including economist, special assistant to the CEO, research director, and most recently Managing Director of Human Capital. Prior to The Conference Board, Barrington was on the economics faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University. While on faculty at Barnard College, she published several articles on gender economics, poverty measurement and economic history. She has also taught at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, and a B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
by the ILO’s 2016-2018 Global Commission on the Future of Work
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* - Sessions marked with an asterisk will be livestreamed.
8:30am | Registration And Refreshments - 12th floor reception and cafe
9:00am | Welcome and Introduction* - Room 1235
9:05am | Future Of Work Report* - Room 1235
9:50am | New York Perspective* - Room 1235
10:05am | Commentary And Discussion* - Room 1235
10:20am | Networking Break
10:35am | Concurrent Working Group Discussions
i. Work, Society and The Social Contract - Room 1104
ii. Decent Jobs and Social Protections - Room 1137
iii. Organization of Work and Production - Room 1139
iv. The Governance of Work - Room 1140
12:00pm | Networking Break
12:10pm | Key Discussion Points* - Room 1235
12:50pm | Closing Remarks* - Room 1235
1:00pm | Networking and boxed lunch
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