David Nathan Weil

DAVID WEIL is Professor at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and from 2017-2022 its Dean. Prior to joining the Heller School, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and was the first Senate confirmed head of that agency in a decade. He led the Wage and Hour Division from 2014 to January 2017. He was nominated to return to that post by President Joe Biden in 2021. 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; the Labor and Employment Relations Association Susan Eaton Scholar / Practitioner Award; and the Father Edward Boyle Award from the The Labor Guild of the Boston Archdiocese of Boston.

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