Alain Noël is professor of political science at the Université de Montréal.  He works on social policy in a comparative perspective, as well as on federalism and on Quebec and Canadian politics. He has published in a number of books and scientific journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of Social Policy, and the Socio-Economic Review.  His latest book is entitled Utopies provisoires: essais de politique sociale (Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2019). He is also the author, with Jean-Philippe Thérien, of Left and Right in Global Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Between 2006 and 2014, Alain Noël was president of the Centre d’étude sur la pauvreté et l’exclusion of the Quebec government (CEPE).  Previously, he was also vice-president of the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), a member of Quebec’s Commission on Fiscal Imbalance, and a visiting professor at the Institut d’études politiques de Grenoble, at the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon and at the School of Social Welfare of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2013-14, he was president of the Canadian Political Science Association (www.alainnoel.ca).

Hélène Landemore is Associate Professor of Political Science, with Tenure. Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory, political epistemology, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences (particularly economics), constitutional processes and theories, and workplace democracy.

Yu Xie is Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology and Director of Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University. He is also a Visiting Chair Professor of the Center for Social Research, Peking University.  His main areas of interest are social stratification, demography, statistical methods, Chinese studies, and sociology of science.  His recently published works include: Marriage and Cohabitation (University of Chicago Press 2007) with Arland Thornton and William Axinn, Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis with Daniel Powers (Emerald 2008, second edition), and Is American Science in Decline? (Harvard University Press, 2012) with Alexandra Killewald.  He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), Academia Sinica (2004), and the National Academy of Sciences (2009).  

Contributions :

Yu Xie gives a talk on June 4th, 2019 (joint LIEPP/OSC): Market Transition, Industrialization, and Social Mobility Trends in Post-Revolution China

Lawrence D. Brown, PhD, served as former chair of the Mailman School's Department of Health Policy and Management for 10 years and Columbia University's Public Policy Consortium for three years. A political scientist, he served on the faculty of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, and held positions at the Brookings Institution before joining the Columbia faculty in 1988. Dr. Brown is the author of Politics and Health Care Organizations: HMOs as Federal Policy (Brookings Institution, 1983) and of articles on the political dimensions of community cost containment, expansion of coverage for the uninsured, national health reform, the role of analysis in the formation of health policy, and cross-national health policy. Dr. Brown edited the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law for five years, and has served on several national advisory committees for the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation. He is a recipient of an RWJ Investigators in Health Policy award and a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Contributions :

He gives a talk on November 12, 2019 - Politics and Markets : Managed Competition as a Health Care Reform Strategy.   

Ian Hurd is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies program at Northwestern University. He has worked for many years at the intersection of international law and international politics with a focus on international organizations and is currently writing a book on the life and times of liberal internationalism. His latest book is How to Do Things With International Law (Princeton University Press, 2017) which traces the idea of the international rule of law in contemporary international politics. His earlier work on the UN Security Council includes the book After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the UN Security Council (Princeton 2007), which won the Myres McDougal Prize of the Policy Sciences Society and the Chadwick Alger Prize of the International Studies Association. His textbook International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice is in its third edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (Oxford University Press, 2017). He has served chair of the International Organization section of the International Studies Association and been a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, EHESS, WZB-Berlin, Sciences Po, and elsewhere.

Contributions :

Ian Hurd gives a talk on June 17th (joint LIEPP/CSO): The Rule of Law in Global Governance.

Born in Naples in 1955, Maurizio Ferrera graduated in Philosophy in Turin (1977) and subsequently gained an MA in Political Science from Stanford University (1981) and a PhD in Political and Social Science at the Institute European University of Florence (1984).

Between 1984 and 2003 he taught at the University of Pavia as a researcher (1984-1987), Associate Professor (1987-1994) and finally as Full Professor. It has long been Vice-Director of the “Poleis” Center for Comparative Politics at Bocconi University, where has also taught courses in Political Science (within the DES program ) and European Integration (within the MIEM program). Since 2003 he has been Full Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science, Economics and Social Sciences (SPES) of the University of Milan, where he teaches “Theory and Policies of the welfare state”, “Comparative Welfare States” and “Empirical Political Theory “. Until 2011, he was President of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences, and currently serves as President of the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP) among universities in Lombardy and Piedmont.

He was a member of numerous organizations and scientific committees, including the High Level Expert Group on Social Investment Policies at the European Commission, The Research Council European University Institute in Florence, the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research, the Board of Directors of the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, the Scientific Committee of Confindustria, the Steering Committee of the Center for Research and Documentation Luigi Einaudi of Turin. Over the years he has worked in various commissions of inquiry and working groups for the Italian government, the European Union, the OECD and the ILO. He was a member of the Onofri Commission (1997), the Commission of Inquiry on Social Exclusion (1998-2001), the High Level Group on the Modernization of Social Protection at the European Commission (1998). Currently he is Scientific Advisor for the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale – ISPI –  and Affiliate Member of the Academy of Social Sciences Company.

Maurizio Ferrera is part of many editorial boards of Italian and foreign journals. Between 1998 and 2000, he was co-director, along with Giovanni Sartori, the Italian Journal of Political Science. He directs the series “Public policies in Italy” for Il Mulino and the series “Studies in the political economy of welfare” for Routledge, along with Martin Rhodes. Since 2004 hehas been a columnist for the “Corriere della Sera”.

His main fields of research are comparative politics and public policy analysis, with particular reference to the problems of the welfare state and European integration. On these topics he has published articles in leading international journals including Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, West European Politics, Journal of European Social Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies. Among his most recent books: Alle Radici del Welfare all’Italiana (with M. Jessoula and V.  Fargion, 2012); Governance e Politiche nell’Unione europea (edited with M. Giuliani, Il Mulino, 2008); Il Fattore D. (Mondadori, 2008);  The Boundaries of Welfare (Oxford University Press, 2005).

In 2013 he won an ERC Advanced Grant for a  five year research prject on “Reconciling Economic and Social Europe” (REScEU).

Contributions :

Maurizio Ferrera gives a talk on April 10th, 2019 Towards European Social Union.

He also presents a research paper on April 23th, 2019 European Integration and the Nation State: an Intractable Political Trade off? 

What if the European Union were a Social Union ? Interview by Maurizio Ferrera for the Sciences Po website.

Carrie Shandra is a Sociologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook who studies work and life course inequalities in the United States. Her current research focuses on three areas: (1) disability and nonmarket work, (2) adolescent disability and employment trajectories, and (3) internships and the college to career transition. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage foundation, a Research Fellow of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation.  She received her Ph.D. from Brown University.

Contributions :

She gives a talk on November 27, 2019 (joint LIEPP/OSC) - Disability as Inequality : Social Disparities, Health Disparities and Participation in Daily Activities. 

Denis Saint-Martin is professor in the Department of Political Science at Université de Montréal. He studied at Carleton University and at the Harvard Center for European Studies. He is an expert in comparative public administration and policy. He received various distinctions for his numerous articles and books. His PhD thesis, Building the New Managerialist State, was published by Oxford University Press and won the U.S. Academy of Management’s Best Book Award. He received the Herbert Kaufman Award for Best Paper in Public Administration from the American Political Science Association and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. He served as senior policy advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada, and was Director of the Montréal European Union Centre of Excellence. He is currently working on the global history of anti-corruption policy, and on the comparative institutional analysis of legislative ethics. 

Contributions :

Denis Saint-Martin gives a talk on November 20th, 2018: The Arthur Andersen Effect: Business Power and the Re-Making of the Rules Against Corporate Corruption

Entreprises, corruption et impact des instruments de "justice négociée", interview by Denis Saint Martin for Sciences Po website.

Garry Gray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria (Canada) where he teaches qualitative research methods, sociology of law, and white-collar crime. He received his PhD (2008) at the University of Toronto where he conducted a large in-depth qualitative study into industrial risks and safety culture (‘Local Safety Cultures of Risk and Regulation: Workplace Safety, Individual Responsibility, and Near Miss Accidents’). From 2009-2011, he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health where he researched the influence of organizational culture on medical errors and ethical decision-making inside hospital settings. Then, from 2011-2015, he was a Research Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School where he conducted research on the social organization of unethical behaviour inside institutions of public trust, focusing specifically on institutional corruption in science.

Contributions : 

Garry Gray is giving a talk (joint seminar LIEPP/CSO) on September 14th, 2018 Experiencing Safety: Local Culture, Near Miss Accidents, and Regulatory Disempowerment