Welcoming David Weil as the 2024-2025 Stone Visiting Scholar

Harvard Kennedy School's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has appointed economist David Weil as the 2024-2025 Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor of Public Policy. He is the Stone Program's third Stone Visiting Scholar, following the previous appointments of economists Lucas Chancel and David Autor.

From 2017 to 2022, Weil served as the Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He served as the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor under President Barack Obama from 2014 to January 2017. He co-founded and co-directs with Archon Fung and Mary Graham the Transparency Policy Project at the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Weil is an internationally recognized expert in employment and labor market policy, along with regulation, transparency policy, and the impacts of industry restructuring on wages, employment, and work outcomes. He has advised government agencies at the state and federal levels and international organizations on employment, labor, and workplace policies.  He is the author of more than 130 articles and five books including The Fissured Workplace (Harvard University Press). He has received many awards including the Frances Perkins Intelligence and Courage Award; Public Dollar for Public Good Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Cushing-Gavin Award for Excellence in Labor-Management Relations by the Archdiocese of Boston, and the Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award by the Labor and Employment Research Association (LERA).

Weil received his BS in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and Master and Ph.D. degrees in Public Policy at Harvard University.