David Finegold is the Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Prior to joining Rutgers, Dr. Finegold was a professor at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, CA and at USC’s Marshall School of Business. At the Keck Institute, he worked with biotechnology firms to identify skill demands and investigated the skills required in the temporary staffing industry. He is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books, including Bioindustry Ethics (Elsevier, 2005) and Are Skills the Answer? A Comparison of Education, Training and Employment Systems in Seven Industrial Countries (Oxford University Press, 1999). In the summer of 2006, he served as a special advisor to the Leitch review of skills, a government-mandated study of long term skill needs in the United Kingdom. He received his PhD in Political Science from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.