David Weil

Brandeis University

David Weil is Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. In AY 2025, he is the Stone Visiting Scholar / Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Weil served as the Dean of the Heller School from 2017-2022.  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.

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