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Our Advisors serve as an invaluable source of guidance and expertise. They are leaders in their respective fields and are all well positioned to help us explore high-level strategic issues. It is a privilege to have them onboard.
Robert J. Flanagan
Professor Flanagan is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Labor Economics and Policy Analysis, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University, and M.A. and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Flanagan has published 11 books and over 50 articles in professional journals on labor economics and human resource management. He is the author of Globalization and Labor Conditions, a book that describes the benefits of increased global labor mobility on international working conditions and economic welfare.
Professor Flanagan’s research interests have included: the economics of discrimination, labor union behavior, and the impact of national income policies and collective bargaining institutions on wages, inflation, and other measures of macroeconomic performance. Most of Professor Flanagan’s research focuses on the effects of international differences in labor market institutions and practices on employment outcomes.
Richard A. Powell
Richard Powell, now retired, was Professor in Economics at La Salle-Universitat Ramon Lull, Barcelona. He is an expert in international and labor economics, has taught economics at the university level for over three-and-a-half decades, and served as a Chief Examiner of Economics for several examination boards in the United Kingdom for 27 years.
Professor Powell is the author of several books, including: Investigating Economics, Exploring Global Economics, and Historic Yorkshire. He has also written at length about migrant workers’ rights and legalization in Spain, and on many other cultural issues regarding social concerns around global labor mobility.
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett, one of the world’s leading experts in immigration and development, is currently Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of the Masters in Public Administration in International Development and Faculty Chair of the Masters in Public Administration in International Development program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility, an incredibly insightful book that describes the transformative benefits of cross-border migration on both host and sending countries.
Lant graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. After leaving MIT, Lant joined the World Bank, where he has held a number of positions: as an adviser to Lawrence Summers when he was Vice President, working within the Bank’s Indonesian operations, and as lead Socio-Economist in Delhi. From 2000 to 2004, Lant was a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Lant’s career as an economic researcher and development practitioner has had three primary strands. Firstly, he has been a co-author and team member in producing books by the World Bank—including two World Development Reports. Secondly, he has written (either individually or co-authored) over 50 individually signed papers in refereed journals, chapters in books, or articles. He has published widely in economic journals, and in specialized journals on demography, education, and health. Finally, he has been engaged in policy dialogue and projects with governments and civil society around the world, both with the World Bank and as a consultant while at Harvard. |
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