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Sarosh Kuruvilla

Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies and Public Affairs, Cornell University

Sarosh Kuruvilla is currently Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies and Public Affairs at Cornell University. He joined Cornell's faculty in 1990 after obtaining a doctorate in business administration from the University of Iowa in 1989, and after a career as a labor relations manager in the industry in India. His research has largely focused on national human resource and labor policies in Asia and has worked with Asian governments. He currently directs the New Conversations Project: Sustainable Labor Standards In Global Supply Chains at Cornell.

Professor Kuruvilla's research interests focus broadly in the area of comparative industrial relations and specifically on the linkages between industrial relations policies and practices, national human resource policies and practices and economic development policies. His recent research has been concerned with developing policy approaches to improving national skills development, skills up-gradation and labor policy. His research has informed government policy and practice in Asia, particularly in relation to Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, S. Korea, Taiwan and more recently, in China and India. He serves as a consultant to many international agencies, as well as global corporations, and has authored a large number of refereed journal articles on labor and human resource policies and practices. He has started a new project on sustainable labor practices in global supply chains, focusing primarily on the global apparel industry.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies and Public Affairs, Cornell University