David Weil

David Weil is professor of economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management. He also serves as co-director (with Archon Fung and Mary Graham) of the Transparency Policy Project at the Ash Institute at Harvard Kennedy School. His research spans regulatory and labor market policy, industrial and labor relations, occupational safety and health, and transparency policy. He has written three books, including Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and the award-winning Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing (Oxford University Press, 1999). In addition, he is author of over 75 articles and publications in a variety of refereed economics, public policy, management, and industrial relations journals and books, as well as numerous publications in non-academic outlets.

Professor Weil has worked as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor, its Wage and Hour Division, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and a number of other government agencies. He also serves as mediator and advisor in a range of labor union and labor/management settings across the globe. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Institutes of Health, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. He received his B.S. at Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. in public policy at Harvard University.