Emilie Bargues

Doctoral Candidate
ESC Clermont Ferrand

Emilie Bargues is a doctoral candidate in Management at the Laboratory of the Economy & Sociology of Work  (LEST), Université Aix-Marseille II.  Her PhD advisor is Ariel Mendez, Management Professor at Université de la Méditerranée and director of LEST.  Emilie investigates socialization practices in small and medium-sized organizations. In addition, is also a research fellow at CEREQ, a public research center focused on skills and employment, associated with ESC-Clermont Business School. To date, Emilie has contributed to the book Au risque de l’évaluation (On the risk of evaluation) edited by M.C. Bureau and E. Marchal, in which she co-authored the chapter “How small companies value older workers’ employment.” She is now working on several research contracts with CEREQ. One of the research reports stemming from these contracts has been published by the Center of Employment Studies (CEE): Age management and knowledge transfer in small and medium-sized companies in Auvergne (in French), Rapport de Recherche du CEE, n°17.

Mélanie Burlet

4 Quai des Etroits
ANACT

Etienne Campens

Senior Researcher
ESC Clermont Ferrand

Richard Croucher

Professor and Associate Dean
Middlesex University Business School, UK

Richard is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and currently holds visiting positions at Cranfield University and the Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Clermont-Ferrand, France. he has served as an external examiner for the Universities of Oxford and Warwick. His interests are in HRM and employment relations. His work has been published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Work, Employment and Society, Policy Studies, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and elsewhere. His most recent publication is Human Resource Management: A Case Study Approach , which he edited with Micaehl Muller-Camen and Susan Leigh. (London: CIPD Publishing).

Matt Flynn

Senior Lecturer
Middlesex University Business School, UK

Matt Flynn researches and teaches global HRM and age management.  He participated in an EU funded project on knowledge management; older workers as a vulnerable occupational group; and the relationship between gender, qualification and work.

Janet Gornick

Professor of Political Science and Sociology at
The Graduate Center
Baruch College

Janet Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, and Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, both parts of The City University of New York.  She is also Director of the
Luxembourg Income Study, a cross-national research institute and data archive based in Luxembourg. Most of her research is comparative, across the industrialized countries, and concerns social welfare and labor market policies and their impact on family well-being and gender equality. Her core interest is in public programs that affect parents' capacity to combine employment with caregiving, such as child care, paid family leave, the regulation of working time, and income supports targeted on families with children. More recently, she is studying older workers in comparative perspective.

Ariane Hegewisch

Resident Scholar
IWPR

Ariane Hegewisch has been a scholar-in-residence at IWPR since October 2006. She is a specialist in comparative human resource management, with a focus on policies and legislative approaches to facilitate greater work life reconciliation and gender equality in higher income economies. She also has a particular interest in public sector developments. Prior to coming to the USA she taught comparative European human resource management at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and worked as a policy advisor on gender and employment in local government in the UK. She is German and holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MPhil in Development Studies from the IDS, Sussex. She is also an international associate of the Center for WorkLife Law, U.C Hastings.

Masa Higo

Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
Boston College

Masa Higo is a teaching fellow and a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at Boston College. He teaches social gerontology courses, and he conducts research on comparative policy with respect to work, retirement, and health care for the elderly with a special focus on Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Min A Jung

Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Social Work
Boston College

Min A Jung is a current doctoral student at Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College. A native of South Korea, Ms. Jung received her MSW from Washington University, in St. Louis in addition to completing her BA and MA from Korea University in South Korea.

Noriko Kameda

Noriko Kameda, a native of Japan, has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and is an entrepreneur, having founded and managed a manufacturing company.  For many years she taught graduate courses on Global Management at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management.

Jungui Lee, EdD

Post-doctoral Researcher
Center on Aging & Work— Boston College

Jungui Lee is a current post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Social Work and Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. A native of South Korea, Ms. Lee received her MA in Education from Korea University, where she also completed her EdD in Adult and Continuing Education. Ms. Lee has worked as a researcher in the field of adult and continuing education, as a lecturer at several colleges.  Her research interests include program development and evaluation for older adults, career development of older workers.

Suzan Lewis

Professor, Organizational Psychology
Middlesex University Business School, UK

Suzan Lewis has led many national and international research projects on experiences of combining work and personal life, with a particular focus on the impacts of HR policies on employees across the life course, in diverse national contexts. She is currently involved in a study of quality of working life across Europe.

Margaret Lombe

Kathy Lynch

Director, Employer Engagement
Center on Aging & Work— Boston College

As the Center’s Director of Employer Engagement, Kathy Lynch works in partnership with decision-makers at the workplace to ensure that their voice, their needs, and their experiences are evident throughout all phases of the Center’s research investigations.   She brings to her role over a decade of experience in Employer Partnerships and University based research and project management.  For the past eleven years, Kathy has worked at the Boston College Center for Work & Family where she led the National Work &Ce Family Roundtable, and created and launched the visionary Boston College Global Workforce Roundtable.  She is recognized as a national expert on work and family issues.

Tay McNamara

Director of Research
Center on Aging & Work— Boston College

With a doctorate in Sociology from Boston College, Tay McNamara carries out studies related to workplace flexibility using the Health and Retirement Study as the Center's Director of Research.  She acts as an internal consultant for the analysis of large datasets such as the Health and Retirement Study, the Current Population Survey, and the American Communities Survey. In addition, she collaborates on issue briefs, fact sheets, and databases related to the Center’s areas of interest.  Among her more recent projects, she has analyzed data and drafted numerous journal articles related to the efficacy of brief interventions in encouraging healthy lifestyles.

Ariane
Ollier-Malaterre

Associate Director, Global Initiatives
Center on Aging & Work— Boston College

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre is a post-doctoral researcher with the Center on Aging and Work. Ariane has a 10-year professional experience and holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from ESSEC Business School and CNAM University, Paris. She has compared Work-Life Balance organizational initiatives across France, the UK and the US. Her research interests include the Individual/Organization relationship, Work-Life and flexible working, Lifecycle and Aging, Protean Careers, and qualitative methodologies.

Celina
Pagani-Tousignant

President
Normisur International

Celina Pagani-Tousignant is the president and founder of Normisur International, an international management consulting firm that specializes in Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Involvement, Work/Life, Diversity, and Executive Coaching. Having a strong global presence, her clientele includes customers in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Asia. Celina’s goal is to create social change by building bridges between companies, communities and people from diverse backgrounds and forging relationships across cultural chasms

Emma Parry

Research Fellow
Human Resource Research Centre,
Cranfield School of Management

Dr Emma Parry's research interests include recruitment and selection, particularly the use of the internet for recruitment and selection, the use of technology in HR, age discrimination at work, talent management and international HRM.   Emma earned her B.Sc (Hons) in Psychology from London Guildhall University in 1993 and her MSc and PhD in Applied (Occupational) Psychology from Cranfield University in 1996 and 2001 respectively. Emma worked as a consultant to the human resources department of a large retail chain before joining the HRRC in April 2002.  Emma is currently managing the Recruitment Confidence Index, a quarterly survey of UK recruitment trends, and is also managing Cranet, an international Network of business Schools that conducts a comparative survey of HRM policies and practices in around 40 countries worldwide.  Emma has been also involved in a wide range of research projects in both the public and private sector, including a large-scale human resources and training needs survey for the UK National Health Service, several human resources projects for the Ministry of Defence and a number of CIPD commissioned projects regarding ‘HR and technology’ and Age.   Emma is the author of numerous publications and conference papers in the field of HRM.

Julien Pelletier

International Prospective and Project Developement Mgr.
Responsable Veille et Prospective Internationale
ANACT

Dr. Julien Pelletier's current role is as International Project Manager for ANACT (Agence Nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail), the French National Agency for the Improvement of Working Conditions. Julien earned his MBA at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and his PhD in the Economy and Sociology of Work (LEST, CNRS) from Aix-Marseille, France. Among his work in the field as organization and management consultant, Julien has worked for Regional Representative for ANACT as well as General Manager for ARACT in Provence, France. His latest publication was "Intervention Practices in Firms," Editions ANACT, 2007.

Marcie
Pitt-Catsouphes

Associate Professor
Graduate School of Social Work
Director
Center on Aging & Work— Boston College

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility and an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work & Carroll School of Management at Boston College.  She directs the Center’s Global Perspectives Project. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a recipient of the 2007 Work-Life Legacy Award. 

Ce Shen

Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Social Work
Boston College

Ce Shen, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work of Boston College.  His work has been based on the cross-national comparative studies in the field of social development. He has also been involved in research on job satisfaction, career development stage, and working environment of American workforce.

Chantel Sheaks

Legislative Counsel, Benefits and Tax
Workplace Flexibility 2010,
Georgetown University Law Center

Chantel Sheaks' focus is on the impact of workplace flexibility on employee benefits and other tax issues, with a current focus on older worker issues, such as phased retirement.  In addition, Ms. Sheaks is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a course on health and welfare plans.   Prior to joining Workplace Flexibility 2010, Ms. Sheaks was a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery.

Phillip Taylor

Martin B. Tracy

Martin B. Tracy, Ph.D. is an experienced analyst and researcher on social security and policy issues related to elderly women in an international context and on community-based social services in economically developing nations. He has held professional positions with the U.S. Social Security Administration’s Office of International Policy, the International Social Security Association, and the International Labour Organization. His academic positions have been with the University of Iowa, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Kentucky. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Social Work at the University of Bucharest, Romania in fall 2004.

Philippe Trouvé

Director of Research/Professor
ESC Clermont Ferrand

Atsuhiro Yamada

Associate Professor, Social Policy
Keio University
Tokyo, Japan

Atsuhiro Yamada is a labour economist and is currently Associate Professor of Social Policy at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan). He is one of the authors of The Economics of Older Workers in Japan (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun-sha, 2004).   He has written on the effect of various public policies related to the older workers.  Atsuhiro also conducts research on the income distirubion of older people in Japan from an international comparative perspective as a national expert for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France).

Qingwen Xu

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work
Boston College

Dr. Xu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College.  The major foci of her research are on immigrant and refugee population, laws and social policies and their impacts on the well-being of the people, and community-based services.