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Dr. Richard Freeman Richard Freeman
Harvard University, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics
Paywizard and WorklifeWizard Research Director

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

Contact: freeman@nber.org
Dr. Isabelle Ferreras
Harvard Law School, Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program
Paywizard and WorklifeWizard Coordinator

Isabelle Ferreras is a sociologist (PhD, Louvain) and political scientist (MS, MIT). She is focused on understanding the nature of capitalist democracies as they transform from industrial economies to service-based economies. Isabelle was a Wertheim Fellow of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and is now a research associate of the Program where she coordinates the WorklifeWizard project. She is also a post-doctoral fellow of the National Fund for Scientific Research, Brussels, and a research associate of the department of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She has published in the Boston Review and other European publications and is in the process of completing two monographs.

Contact: iferreras@law.harvard.edu
Jason Anastasopoulos
Harvard Law School, Web and Publications Coordinator, Labor and Worklife Program
Paywizard and WorklifeWizard Webmaster and Content Editor

A native of Brooklyn, NY , Jason graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations , Economics and Modern European Studies and received an AM in Statistics from Harvard. Before coming to the Labor and Worklife Program he worked for the Utility Workers Union of America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and CBS Broadcasting. His academic interests are in political theory, literature and the Classics.

Contact: janastasopoulo@law.harvard.edu
Irene van Beveren, ma
Freelance journalist and content coordinator for Wage Indicator Foundation

Irene van Beveren (1960) was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She started as a free lance content manager for Wage Indicator Netherlands in 2005. In that role she lead the “VIP Checker” project. In 2007 Irene moved to Boston, to join the US Wage Indicator team.
Irene has worked as a free lance journalist since 1987. From 2001 to 2004 she held a position as a senior editor for several (online) publications within Reed Elsevier. In 2004 she wrote a book on Healthcare in Spain for that same publisher. Prior to Reed Elsevier she worked with the online news agencies YourNews and MoneyView. Irene holds a Master of Arts degree from Leiden University, Netherlands.

Contact: irenevanbeveren@gmail.com
Dr. Damian Raess
MIT, Visiting Scholar
Paywizard Data Coordinator

Damian Raess received his Ph.D. in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam in 2006.  He specializes on the comparative political economy of globalization and labor.  Since fall 2007 he is a Visiting Scholar in the department of political science at MIT, and in 2008-2009 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the LWP.  Before coming to the US he taught comparative industrial relations at the K.U. Leuven and University of Amsterdam.  He is currently working on his first monograph, extending his qualitative study of globalization and industrial relations in Germany and Brazil by way of quantitative analysis.  His articles have appeared in the Review of International Political Economy and European Journal of Industrial Relations.


Contact: raess@mit.edu
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