Anke Hassel: Project Leader
Anke is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance. From 2016 to 2019 she was the Scientific Director of the WSI at the Hans Böckler Foundation. Anke Hassel has extensive international experience and scientific expertise in the fields of the labour market, social partnership, codetermination and the comparative political economy of developed industrial nations. She was an expert in the fact-finding committee on growth, prosperity and quality of life in the German Bundestag (2012-13); the expert commission on the future of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2015-17) and chairwoman of the expert group on Workers’ Voice and Good Corporate Governance in Transnational Companies in Europe (2015-2018). She has also been a member of the German Federal Government’s High-Tech Forum since January 2019.
Didem Özkiziltan: Postdoctoral Researcher
Didem is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School, currently working in the project ‘Governing work in the knowledge-based economy’. Previously she held a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. Didem earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Labour Economics and Industrial Relations from Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. She holds a PhD and a Master of Research from the University of Bath, Department of Social and Policy Sciences. Her doctoral research investigated the historical continuity of insecurity for labour as an embedded rationale in Turkey’s industrial relations. Her current research focuses on precarity in labour markets and the impacts of digitalisation on the world of work. She has previously published in the Journal of Development Studies, Industrial Relations Journal and International Labor and Working-Class History.
Kilian Weil: Research Associate
Kilian is working at the intersection of technological innovation, occupational change and comparative politics. Prior to joining Hertie School, he worked at the Robert Koch Institut on contact tracing and at the OECD on results-based management. He received his bachelor in sociology and political science from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and holds an M.A. in sociology from Freie Universität Berlin.
Tania Lessenska: Research Assistant
Tania Lessenska is a second year Master of Public Policy candidate at the Hertie School. Her research focus within the project are the implications of platforms on global value chains and production networks. Additionally, she is also investigating the gaps in protection of workers in the draft AI Regulation Act by the European Commission. Lessenska holds a BA in Political Science in English from the New Bulgarian University and has worked as a programme coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Project partners:
Prof. John Zysman, PhD, emeritus
UC Berkeley
Prof. Laura Tyson, PhD
UC Berkeley
Prof. Martin Kenney, PhD
UC Davis
Prof. Dr. Wolfgag Schroeder
Universität Kassel and WZB
Prof. Dr. Markus Helfen
Universität Innsbruck
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