David Weil

David Weil served as the Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University from 2017-2022 and currently is a Professor at Heller and the Department of Economics. Prior to joining the Brandeis faculty in 2017, he was the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business (1991-2014). He was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor and was nominated again to serve in that role by President Joe Biden. His area of expertise is employment and labor market policy; regulation; transparency policy; and the impacts of industry restructuring on employment and work outcomes and business performance. Professor Weil has written five books including The Fissured Workplace (Harvard University Press) and published over 130 articles. He is widely sought in the US and abroad as an advisor on public policy questions. Weil earned a bachelor’s degree at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, a master’s in public policy at the Kennedy School and a PhD in public policy at Harvard.