David Lewin, Ph.D., is the Neil Jacoby Professor of Management, Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where he is also Senior Associate Dean for the MBA program. A specialist in human resource management and industrial relations, Professor Lewin has published 19 books and more than 150 articles. Among his recent books are International Perspectives and Challenges in Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management: An Economic Approach, The Human Resource Management Handbook, and Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Volume 14. Prior to joining UCLA in 1990, he was Professor, Director of the Ph.D. Program, Director of the Human Resources Research Center, and Director of the Senior Executive Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
 

Holder of National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Human Resource Planning Society, Society for Human Resource Management, and U.S. Department of Labor research grants, Professor Lewin presently serves as a Director of K-Swiss, Inc. and member of the K-Swiss Board’s Compensation Committee and Governance Committee. He also serves as a Director of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR), a Director the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee to World at Work, and a member of The Conference Board’s Evidence-Based Human Resources Advisory Panel. Professor Lewin previously served as Director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations, President of the University Council on Industrial Relations and Human Resource Programs, and Co-Chair of Los Angeles Mayor Richard Reardon’s Task Force on General Manager Compensation and Performance Management. He is senior editor of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, and a member of the editorial boards of Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and California Management Review.
 

Professor Lewin has held professional consulting assignments with ARCO, Mobil, The Sun Company, Northville Industries, American Express, Kodak, General Electric, Pfizer, Merck, Hoffman La Roche, Amgen, Dupont, IMC Global Operations, Syntex, IBM, AT&T, United Telecommunications, Nynex, Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Motors, Hughes Electronics, TRW, McDonnell-Douglas, Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed-Marietta, Rockwell, Loral Optical Systems, British Aerospace, Corning, John Hancock, Mutual of New York, Home Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Farmers Insurance, Reliance Insurance, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pacific Enterprises, Bechtel Power Corp., Figgie International, N.W. Ayer, The New York Times Co., Knight-Ridder, Union Pacific Railroad, Anheuser-Busch, Marriott Corp., The Walt Disney Company, and other enterprises. He presently serves as Faculty Director of the UCLA Anderson School's Advanced Program in Human Resource Management and the UCLA Anderson School/YPO Executive Seminar Series. In 2004, Professor Lewin received the Executive MBA Program Outstanding Teaching Award.
 

Professor Lewin also serves as an expert in employment litigation cases. He has provided reports, declarations, deposition and trial testimony in cases involving issues of age, race, gender and disability discrimination, wrongful termination, constructive discharge, human resource management (including employee and executive compensation and performance management), and wages and hours, including exempt v. non-exempt status and independent contractor v. employee status.