David Weil is a Research Fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University School of Management.  He is also co-director with Archon Fung and Mary Graham (both of the Taubman Center) with the Transparency Policy Project at the Taubman Center, which examines the use of information disclosure as a regulatory tool.  Weil's research spans the areas of labor market policy, industrial and labor relations, and regulatory policy.  His interests also include the impact of information technology on restructuring of the retail sector and its supply chains arising from his work as a principal investigator at the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research since the Center’s founding in 1991. Weil is author of Turning the Tide: Strategic Planning for Labor Unions (Macmillan, 1994) and co-author of A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing—Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries (Oxford University Press, 1999).  He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other government agencies as well as serving as an advisor to labor unions and numerous labor/management initiatives. Weil received his B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Public Policy from Harvard University.