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Access Private Area for Global Team(comming soon)The accomplishments of the Global Initiatives rely on the work of an international collaboration of scholars and employers, including over 20 academics and practitioners with expertise in comparative public policies, institutional and legal structures of the countries studied, cross-cultural research, and employment experiences of 21st century multi-generational workforce.
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Emilie Bargues
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Research Fellow Emilie Bargues is a PhD candidate in Management at the Laboratory of the Economy & Sociology of Work (LEST), Université Aix-Marseille II. Her PhD advisor is Ariel Mendez, Management Professor at Université de la Méditerranée and director of LEST. Emilie investigates socialization practices in small and medium-sized organizations. In addition, is also a research fellow at CEREQ, a public research center focused on skills and employment, associated with ESC-Clermont Business School. To date, Emilie has contributed to the book Au risque de l’évaluation (On the risk of evaluation) edited by M.C. Bureau and E. Marchal, in which she co-authored the chapter “How small companies value older workers’ employment.” She is now working on several research contracts with CEREQ. One of the research reports stemming from these contracts has been published by the Center of Employment Studies (CEE): Age management and knowledge transfer in small and medium-sized companies in Auvergne (in French), Rapport de Recherche du CEE, n°17. |
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Rucha Bhate
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Graduate Research Assistant Rucha is a graduate student in the Department of Economics at Boston College. Before beginning her doctoral studies at BC, she earned her Masters in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune, India. Thereafter, she worked as a Research Associate with the Indian Institute of Management -Ahmadabad, a premier Business school in India and also at the Aditya Birla Group, a major business conglomerate. Rucha’s primary areas of research are Macroeconomics and International Economics; in particular the economic dynamics of developing countries. |
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Isabella Blengini
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Graduate Research Assistant Isabella Blengini is a doctoral student in the Economics Department of Boston College. Her research focus is on international economics. She has been studying issues related to human capital endowment and quality of production, capital flow dynamics and financial crises. |
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Libby Brooke
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Director of Research |
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Louisa Diana Brunner, MSc
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Consultant Louisa Diana Brunner is a management, organizational, and leadership development consultant. She carries out selection and career counselling for the Executive MBA Courses at Bocconi School of Management, Milan. Her main areas of intervention and interest are leadership, organizational culture, group relations, team-building, family business, generational transitions, aging and work and executive coaching. She is a member of OFEK (Israel), OPUS (England), PCCA (Germany), Associazione Il NODO Group (Italy), CSGSS- the Boston Affiliate of A.K. Rice Institute (USA). |
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Mélanie Burlet |
4 Quai des Etroits |
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Etienne Campens |
Senior Researcher |
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René Carapinha, MSW
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Research Assistant René Carapinha is a doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Boston College. Her research focus is on global corporate citizenship and analysis of business models and strategies that enhance employee and community wellbeing and development. Previously René worked at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and as a researcher at the Centre for Social Development in Africa at the University of Johannesburg. René also served as the National Chairperson of the South African Occupational Social Work Association. |
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Richard Croucher
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Associate Dean for Research Richard is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and currently holds visiting positions at Cranfield University and the Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Clermont-Ferrand, France. he has served as an external examiner for the Universities of Oxford and Warwick. His interests are in HRM and employment relations. His work has been published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Work, Employment and Society, Policy Studies, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and elsewhere. His most recent publication is Human Resource Management: A Case Study Approach , which he edited with Micaehl Muller-Camen and Susan Leigh. (London: CIPD Publishing). |
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Simona Cuomo
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Professor & Coordinator Simona Cuomo, a professional SICO registered counsellor, is a professor in Organisation, Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Management. In the Laboratorio Armonia, set up and co-ordinated by the SDA Bocconi Business School, Simona coordinates efforts to foster skills for diversity management in the business world, and to compare working practices on the theme. Some of Simona’s main projects include: International Research on Gender Studies and Diversity Management; Training and coaching activities; and workshops on diversity management issues to promote knowledge exchange among companies engaged through the Laboratorio. |
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Derick de Jongh |
Professor of Economic and Management Sciences |
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Martijn de Wildt
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Director Martijn de Wildt is founder of Qidos (Chi = energy, dos = two; work & life). Qidos is a consultancy firm dedicated to supporting employers with their challenges regarding contemporary themes in Human Resource Management. Qidos is specialized in flexible working, work/life balance, generation-management, employability and talent management. Within Qidos, Martijn is responsible for the strategy and development (including innovation and operations) and creating new business opportunities. He is also member of an advising committee of the government regarding labor participation of women. |
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Matthew Flynn, PhD
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Lecturer, Human Resource Management Dr. Matt Flynn is a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University in London. He researches and teaches global HRM and age management. He participated in an EU funded project on knowledge management; older workers as a vulnerable occupational group; and the relationship between gender, qualification and work |
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Shanyuan Foo, MA
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Graduate Research Assistant Shanyuan Foo is a graduate research assistant at the Sloan Center of Aging and Work at Boston College. Her area of research focuses on the labor markets and working conditions in Asia. She also has strong research interests in the intersection of social policy, employment and gender. |
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Richard Giragosian |
Analyst |
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Janet C. Gornick, PhD
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Professor, Political Science and Sociology Janet C. Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, at the City University of New York. She is also Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, a cross-national research institute and data archive based in Luxembourg. Most of her research is comparative, across the industrialized countries, and concerns social welfare and labor market policies and their impact on family well-being and gender equality. Her core interest is in public programs that affect parents' capacity to combine employment with caregiving, such as child care, paid family leave, the regulation of working time, and income supports targeted on families with children. More recently, she has studied policy supports for older workers. She holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. |
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Marc Grau, MBA
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Research Assistant Marc Grau has obtained a MBA from ESADE Business School, in Barcelona, Spain. Currently, Marc serves as a Research Assistant at the International Center of Work and Family in IESE Business School, and is simultaneously pursuing an advanced degree in Political and Social Science at University Pompeu Fabra. Both institutes are located in Barcelona, Spain. Marc is involved in IFREI project and different projects that focus on Work Family Balance, and has worked as a Western European Travel Manager in Henkel Group. |
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Xinping Guan, PhD
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Dean of Social Work & Social Policy Dr. Guan is a Professor and Dean at Department of Social Work & Social Policy. He is also Vice-Director of China Association of Social Work Education. Dr. Guan’s main academic focus areas include China’s social policy transition in the background of globalization, poverty and social assistance in urban and rural China, social policy for rural workers in urban China, etc. He is the author of the books of “Urban Poverty in China” (1999), “Introduction to Social Policy” (2003, 2008), and has published many academic papers within and out of China in the areas of social policy, social work and sociology. |
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Ariane Hegewisch
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Study Director Ariane Hegewisch is a study director, working on workplace discrimination and work life balance, at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. She is a specialist in comparative human resource management, with a focus on policies and legislative approaches to facilitate greater work life reconciliation and gender equality in higher income economies. Prior to coming to the USA she taught comparative European human resource management at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and worked as a policy advisor on gender and employment in local government in the UK. She is German and holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MPhil in Development Studies from the IDS, Sussex. She is also an international associate of the Center for WorkLife Law, U.C Hastings. |
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Masa Higo, MA
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Research Associate Masa Higo is a research associate at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, where he is in charge of supporting research recruiters' activities as the project manager for the Generations of Talent Study. Masa is also a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at Boston College. His research focuses mainly on cross-national comparative studies on the role of public policy with respect to older worker labor force participation and retirement in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. |
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Dirk Hofacker |
State Institute for Family Research |
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Shoghik Hovhannisyan, MA |
Research Assistant Shoghik Hovhannisyan is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Economics at Boston College and she is also actively collaborating with the Sloan Center on Aging and Work. Shoghik holds a Masters degree in International Development Policy from Duke University and a Masters degree in Economics from Boston College. Since 2005 she has also been involved as a consultant in various organizations including the World Bank, Urban Institute and Duke Center for International Development. |
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Haesang Jeon, MSW |
Graduate Research Assistant |
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Noriko Kameda |
Adjunct Faculty |
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Mireia Las Heras, PhD
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Professor of Business Dr. Las Heras is a Professor at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. She studied Engineering, specializing on Industrial Organization, an MBA at IESE, and her DBA in Boston University. Her research and teaching focus areas include career development and work and family balance, and leadership. Her scholarly activities are conducted in Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, Greece, Norway, USA, and Spain. Currently, Dr. Las Hera is the Research director of the International Center for Work and Family at IESE and she is actively involved in a variety of international research projects regarding career management and work and family effectiveness. |
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Jungui Lee, EdD
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate Jungui Lee is a research associate at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, where she works on Country Context Studies and coordinates other researchers in regard to this project. She has taught human resource development and lifelong education and her research interests include educational program development and evaluation for older adults, career development of older workers, and cross-national comparative research with regard to training policies. |
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Suzan Lewis, PhD
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Professor, Organizational Psychology Dr. Suzan Lewis is a Professor of Organizational Psychology at Middlesex University Business School, London. Her research interests include diversity issues, -especially relating to generation and the life course, gender and "work- life balance" in relation to workplace practice, culture and change in diverse national contexts. |
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Kathy Lynch, MBA
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Director, Employee Engagement Kathy is Director of Employer Engagement at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. In her role, Kathy works in partnership with decision-makers at the workplace to ensure that their voice is evident throughout all phases of the Center's research. Kathy brings to her role over a decade of experience in Employer Partnerships and University based research and project management. Kathy's content expertise spans the work/life and diversity fields, and quality employment for the multigenerational workforce. |
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Tay K. McNamara, PhD
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Co-director of Research Tay K. McNamara is the co-director of research at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. Due to her past experience in using large datasets, she both serves as an internal consultant and to oversee research projects related to secondary data sets. Additionally, her current research projects include secondary analysis related to work in countries around the world and a primary data collection project dealing with state agencies as employers. |
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Phil Mirvis, PhD
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International Consultant and Senior Research Associate Dr. Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist and senior research fellow at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. His studies and private practice concerns large-scale organizational change, the character of the workforce and workplace, and the role of business in society. |
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Michàlle Mor Barak, PhD
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Professor of Social Work and Business Michàlle E. Mor Barak is a Professor at the University of Southern California with a joint appointment at the School of Social Work and the Marshall School of Business. She holds the Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Professorship of Social Work and Business in a Global Society and is the Chair of the Industrial/Occupational Social Work Program. Professor Mor Barak has received awards of distinction, including a Fulbright award, the Lady Davis award for international exchange scholars, the University of California Regents Award, the Mellon Foundation’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and the Franklin C. Sterlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. |
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Julie A. Norstrand
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Graduate Research Assistant Julie A. Norstrand is a doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Boston College. Julie ‘s area of research is focused on understanding the impact of the social environment on the physical and mental health of older adults. She also has strong research interest in better understanding the relationship between social networks and employment status of older adults. |
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Elizabeth Okongo
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Graduate Research Assistant Elizabeth is currently doing her final year of Masters Degree in Education, special Education with specialization in severe disabilities, deaf/blind. Thesis focuses mainly on communication ability for the deaf/blind, which calls for specialization in sign language for the deaf as well as Braille literacy for the blind. She has a great interest in research methodology. |
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Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, PhD
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Associate Professor of Management Ariane Ollier-Malaterre is an Associate Professor of Management at Rouen Business School. She has been a post-doctoral researcher with the Sloan Center on Aging and Work. Ariane has a 10-year professional experience and holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from ESSEC Business School and CNAM University, Paris. She has compared Work-Life Balance organizational initiatives across France, the UK and the US. Her research interests include the Individual/Organization relationship, Work-Life and flexible working, Lifecycle and Aging, Protean Careers, and qualitative methodologies. |
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Celina Pagani-Tousignant
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International Business Consultant Celina Pagani-Tousignant is the president and founder of Normisur International, which collaborates with companies, government, NGOs, and communities to promote Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Involvement, Work/Life, Diversity, and Executive Coaching in today’s workforce. With a MA in Clinical Psychology, Celina is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and is author of Breaking the Rules- Counseling Ethnic Minorities as well as many articles on counseling, Diversity, and Employee Assistance Programs. Celina is currently a Senior Consultant for Asociación Empresarial Para el Desarrollo in Costa Rica. Born in Uruguay, she is fluent in Spanish, French, and Portuguese, and has trained over 6,500 individuals internationally. |
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Chiara Paolino
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PhD Candidate Chiara Paolino’s scholarly interests lie in understanding how HR management is able to enhance, in a feasible and effective way, individual and organizational performance. Chiara is currently involved in different research projects about topics such as employee segmentation, employee engagement, the effects of internal/external hiring of the top management team. Moreover, she is interested in investigating diversity management issues through research projects on gender, aging and disabilities. Chiara currently works at the Management Department in Bocconi University and in the Organization & HR department in the SDA Bocconi School of Management. |
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Emma Parry, PhD
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Research Fellow Dr. Emma Parry's research interests include recruitment and selection, particularly the use of the internet for recruitment and selection, the use of technology in HR, age discrimination at work, talent management and international HRM. Emma is currently managing the Recruitment Confidence Index, a quarterly survey of UK recruitment trends, and is also managing Cranet, an international Network of business Schools that conducts a comparative survey of HRM policies and practices in around 40 countries worldwide. |
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Farooq Pasha, MA
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Graduate Research Assistant Farooq Pasha is a research assistant at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, where he is part of the Global Initiatives project. Farooq is also a doctoral student in the Economics Department at Boston College. His research at the center focuses mainly on job related values in developing countries. |
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Julien Pelletier, PhD
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International Prospective and Project Developement Mgr. Dr. Julien Pelletier's current role is as International Project Manager for ANACT (Agence Nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail), the French National Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions. Julien earned his MBA at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and his PhD in the Economy and Sociology of Work (LEST, CNRS) from Aix-Marseille, France. Among his work in the field as organization and management consultant, Julien has worked for Regional Representative for ANACT as well as General Manager for ARACT in Provence, France. His latest publication was "Intervention Practices in Firms," Editions ANACT, 2007. |
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, PhD
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Director Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes directs the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work, and has appointments at the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Business School at Middlesex University in London. She was the Co-Principal Investigator for the 2006 National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development and the 2007-2008 Age & Generations Study. Her current work includes oversight of the 2009 Talent Management Study. She will be leading the 2010 Generations of Talent study with colleagues from around the world. She was invited to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging as an issue expert, and recently co-edited a special issue of Generations (2007) that focused on aging and work. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a recipient of the 2007 Work-Life Legacy Award. She serves on several boards and advisory committees, including the National Advisory Committee for Workplace 2010 at Georgetown University, the Strategy Board for the Association of Work/Life Professionals at the World of Work, and the Purdue Center for Families. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes’ articles have been published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals. She was a founding co-editor for the international journal, Community, Work and Family. Her publications include The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, published by Erlbaum Publishers (2006) which she edited with colleagues. She received her BA from Tufts University, MSP from Boston College, and PhD from Boston University. |
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Rea Prouska |
Senior Lecturer, Human Resource Management Rea Prouska is a Senior Lecturer in HRM and programme leader for the BA HRM degree at Middlesex University. She lectures in second and final year modules on HRM. She has an MSc and PhD from the University of Manchester. Her research interests are in HR outsourcing and graduate employability. |
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Min-Kyoung Rhee |
University of Southern California |
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Graeme Russell, PhD
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Consultant Dr. Graeme Russell is a partner in Aequus Partners. He is a researcher and consultant on workplace diversity and flexibility. He recently designed and conducted a study (Grey Matters) on the employment and retirement experiences and expectations of a random sample of Australian residents aged 45 and over. |
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Najwa Safadi |
Graduate Research Assistant |
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Malcom Sargeant |
Professor of Labour Law |
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Natalia Sarkisian, PhD
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Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Sarkisian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston College. She is a co-principal investigator on the project. Her current research examines the gender gap in extended family caregiving, the relationship between extended kin support and older workers' employment, the effects of marriage and parenthood on extended family integration and marriage, as well as the racial/ethnic differences in extended family integration and in father-child involvement. |
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Klaus Schöemann, PhD
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Professor of Sociology Dr. Klaus Schömann, professor of sociology, specializes on life course sociology. Main topics of his research are lifelong learning, labor market policy, retirement transitions. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the Free Univ. Berlin in 1992. Before joining Jacobs University in 2004, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, from 1992 to 2004. Until 2006 he was Principal Contractor for the EU-thematic network "tlm.net" on labor market transitions including 25 European research institutes. Consulting activities range from private sector firms in Germany and international organizations. |
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Heike Schroeder |
PhD Candidate |
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Chantel Sheaks |
Executive Vice President Chantel Sheaks' focus is on the impact of workplace flexibility on employee benefits and other tax issues, with a current focus on older worker issues, such as phased retirement. In addition, Ms. Sheaks is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a course on health and welfare plans. Prior to joining Workplace Flexibility 2010, Ms. Sheaks was a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery. |
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Ce Shen, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Social Work Dr. Ce Shen, an assistant professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, has expertise in quantitative methods and statistics. The focus of his research and publications is on the comparative and cross-national analysis of corruption, education, and other aspects of social development, including child mortality and women’s status in less developed countries. Currently, he is involved in consumer-directed health care service for mentally ill people. |
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Ursula Staudinger |
Professor of Psychology, Jacobs University |
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Stephen Sweet, PhD
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Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Stephen Sweet is an associate professor of sociology at Ithaca College and was formerly the associate director of the Cornell Work and Family Careers Institute. He has published widely on work-family concerns and curriculum development. His most recent books are Changing Contours of Work (2008), The Work and Family Handbook: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Methods and Approaches (2005), and Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics (2008, 2003, 1998). His current research focuses on the intersecting concerns of job security, talent retention, and the changing composition of the workforce. |
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Philip Taylor, PhD |
Professor of Employment Policy, Business, Work and Aging Center for Research |
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Martin B. Tracy, PhD
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Owner/Consultant Martin B. Tracy is an experienced analyst and researcher on social security and policy issues related to elderly women in an international context and on community-based social services in economically developing nations. He has held professional positions with the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Office of International Policy, the International Social Security Association, and the International Labour Organization. His academic positions have been with the University of Iowa, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Kentucky. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Social Work at the University of Bucharest, Romania in fall 2004. |
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Philippe Trouvé |
Director of Research/Professor |
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Qingwen Xu, PhD
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Assistant Professor of Social Work Dr. Xu is an Assistant Professor of Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Her major research focuses on laws and social policies, and their impact on the well-being of populations in transition. |
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Atsuhiro Yamada |
Associate Professor of Social Policy Atsuhiro Yamada is a labour economist and is currently Associate Professor of Social Policy at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan). He is one of the authors of The Economics of Older Workers in Japan (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun-sha, 2004). He has written on the effect of various public policies related to the older workers. Atsuhiro also conducts research on the income distirubion of older people in Japan from an international comparative perspective as a national expert for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France). |
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Patricia Yu
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Doctoral Student Patricia Yu is a doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Boston College. She is a research assistant for Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program and the Center of Aging and Work. Her research focus is on comparative cross national health studies with specific emphasis on the older adult population. |
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