David Weil is Professor of Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management. He also co-directs the Transparency Policy Project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research spans regulatory and labor market policy, industrial and labor relations, occupational safety and health, and transparency policy. He has written three books, including the recently released Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

In addition, he is author of over 75 scholarly and popular articles and publications. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Professor Weil has been a co-principal investigator at the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research since its founding in 1991. He is a co-author of A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing—Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries (Oxford University Press, 1999) and a series of articles on the impact of industry structure, production, and work organization on human resource policy and workplace regulation in apparel supply chains.

Professor Weil has worked as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other government agencies. He also serves as the Chairman of the Dunlop Commission on Agricultural Labor as well a as a mediator and advisor in a range of labor union and labor/management settings in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.

David received his Masters in Public Policy and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.