David Weil

David Weil is Dean and professor at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Prior to joining the Heller School in August 2017, he served as Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the United States Department of Labor under President Obama from 2014 to 2017. Weil is an internationally recognized expert in employment and labor market policy along with regulation, transparency policy, and the impacts of industry restructuring on employment, work, and business performance. Dean Weil has advised government agencies at the state and federal levels as well as international organizations on employment, labor, and workplace policies. He co-founded the Transparency Policy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government that examines how information disclosure can be used to improve private and public decisions. He is the author of more than 125 articles and five books including The Fissured Workplace. He has received numerous awards including the Frances Perkins Intelligence and Courage Award (2019). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in public policy from Harvard University.