Joel E. Cutcher Gershenfeld
Interim Director
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld is the Florence G. Heller Chair and Professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is the interim Director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy. He leads research on agile institutions in the 21st Century. Previously he served as a Professor and Dean of the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and as a faculty member in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division. Joel is a past president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. He is an award-winning author who has co-authored or co-edited fourteen books and over one hundred and twenty-five articles, book chapters, and policy papers on new technology, stakeholder alignment, high performance work systems, labor-management partnership, negotiations, conflict resolution, and institutional transformation. He has consulted with unions, employers, and government agencies in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, United Kingdom, and the United States. Joel holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from MIT and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
