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Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Panelist Biographies
Pages 164-173

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... 10:00 Break 10:20 IT and Automation in the Workplace Moderator: Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center Diane Bailey, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin David Rolf, International Vice President, Service Employees International Union 164
From page 165...
... Department of Labor Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy David Autor, Associate Department Head, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yscaira Jimenez, CEO, LaborX 3:30 Break 3:45 Data Sources and Needs Moderator: John Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park Erica Groshen, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics Yoav Shoham, Professor (emeritus) , Stanford University; Principal Scientist, Google Dan Restuccia, Chief Analytics Officer, Burning Glass 5:00  of Societal Challenges and Research Discussion Pathways Moderated by Committee Co-Chairs 5:30 Adjourn
From page 166...
... Auguste was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, where he was elected principal in 1999 and director in 2005. His professional experience prior to McKinsey was as an economist at LMC International, Oxford University, and the African Development Bank.
From page 167...
... Her research has focused on labor markets over the business cycle, regional economics, wage rigidity and dispersion, the male-female wage differential, and the role of employers in labor market outcomes. She also served on advisory boards for BLS and the U.S.
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... He also conceived and launched a program called "Big Ideas @ Berkeley," which provides support for multidisciplinary teams of Berkeley students that are interested in addressing economic and societal challenges such as clean energy, safe drinking water, and poverty alleviation.
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... in political science and international economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and completed graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of articles and op-eds on science and technology policy, the use of prizes as a tool for stimulating innovation, nanotechnology, nuclear strategy, newborn health, vaccines, the impact of mobile communications in developing countries, U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, U.S.-Japan cooperation in science and technology, the National Information Infrastructure, distributed learning, and electronic commerce.
From page 170...
... He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and serves the research community at the national level, including policy contributions to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and membership on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies and the Advisory Council of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He was the former chair of the Computing Research Association and has testified before both the U.S.
From page 171...
... . His robotics work included the DARPA Robotics challenge, where teams from around the world competed to develop and test robots for disaster response.
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... The American Prospect said that "no American unionist has organized as many workers, or won them raises as substantial, as Rolf." Known nationally as an innovative labor leader, Mr. Rolf has founded organizations including the Fair Work Center in Seattle, which enforces labor laws such as the $15 minimum wage, and Working Washington, which supports economic justice activism.
From page 173...
... She held previous positions at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., and the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. She has done research in the areas of wage inequality, employment and unemployment policy, long-term unemployment, labor force participation, the minimum wage, young workers, and immigration.


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