Rick Locke
Professor of Political Science and Management, MIT Sloan
Richard Locke, the Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management teaches in both the Sloan School of Management and the MIT Political Science Department. He is currently the Head of the MIT Political Science Department and outgoing Deputy Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Locke, along with MIT Sloan colleagues, spearheaded the development of the Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab), a course seeking to provide students with in-depth knowledge of the various sustainability issues society faces today. Locke also pioneered the popular Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a course that teaches students about entrepreneurship in developing countries by placing them in internships with startups in an array of companies in various emerging markets. As a result of this work, Locke was named a 2005 Faculty Pioneer in Academic Leadership by The Aspen Institute, awarded the MIT Class of 1960 Teaching Innovation Award in 2007 and the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching in June 2008.
Locke’s current research is focused on improving labor and environmental conditions in global supply chains. Working with leading firms like Nike, Coca Cola, and HP, Locke and his students have been showing how corporate profitability and sustainable business practices can be reconciled. Locke has published 3 books: Working in America with Paul Osterman, Thomas Kochan, and Michael Piore, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2001), Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy with Thomas Kochan, Michael Piore, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (1995), and Remaking the Italian Economy, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (1995) as well as numerous articles on economic development, labor relations, and corporate responsibility. He is currently working on a new book, Justice Beyond Compliance, based upon his labor standards in global supply chains research.

Claudio de Moura Castro
Faculdade Pitágoras
Claudio de Moura Castro is the president of the Advisory Council of Faculdade Pitágoras. His research focuses on labor markets, social and economic aspects of education, vocational training and science and technology policies, and he has published more than thirty books and approximately three hundred scholarly articles on these topics. He has taught at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, the University of Chicago, the Universidade de Brasília, the University of Geneva, and the University of Burgundy, Dijon. He also served as technical coordinator of the ECIEL (Program of Joint Studies of Latin American Economic Integration) research project on education.
He was the director of CAPES (Brazilian Agency for Postgraduate Education) and he has also served as the executive secretary of CNRH (the Brazilian social policy institute of the Planning Secretariat). From 1986 to 1992, he was chief of the Training Policies Branch of the International Labour Office (Geneva). He has also worked in a Technical Division of the World Bank as senior human resource economist and as division chief of the Social Programs Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Later he served as the chief educational advisor of the IDB. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for LASPAU, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Harvard University that designs, develops, and implements academic and professional exchange programs on behalf of individuals and institutions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, a master’s degree from Yale University, and a doctorate in Economics from Vanderbilt University.