Biography

Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member at the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Kochan focuses on the need to update work and employment policies, institutions, and practices to catch up with a changing workforce and economy. His recent work calls attention to the need for a new social contract at work, one that anticipates and engages current and future technological changes in ways that can drive innovation and build a more inclusive economy and broadly shared prosperity. His forthcoming book is Roads not Taken: Lessons for Building a New Social Contract at Work.  (MIT Press, 2027).He is a member of the National Academy of Human Resources, the National Academy of Arbitrators, and past
president of the International Industrial Relations Association and the Industrial Relations Research Association. Kochan holds a PhD in industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin​.