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2007


2006

2005
  • Opening speaker at the 12th international conference of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security on Ageing and the Labour Market, Sigtuna, Sweden, June.

2004
  • Presentations of Economic Security for a Better World (Geneva, ILO, 2004; revised 2005) in Geneva, New Delhi, Colombo and São Paulo, November-October. Press kit
  • Chaired and co-organised tenth Congress of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN) on The Right to a Basic Income: Egalitarian Democracy, Barcelona, September. Conference programme and papers; Conference summary
  • Opening speaker at conference in Bruges. Presented seminars at Universities of Cambridge, Lausanne, Cape Town and São Paulo.

2003-04
  • Member of International Scientific Committee on Emerging Human Rights, Barcelona Forum, assisting in the drafting of the Charter of Emerging Human Rights.  Published as Charter of Emerging Human Rights (Barcelona, Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya, 2004). pdf Text

2003
  • Participant in a conference at Wilton Park, Sussex, UK, on Private Foreign Investment and the Poorest Countries, 24-27 March.

2002
  • Organiser and chair of ninth BIEN Congress on Income Security as a Right, Geneva, September. Conference outline; Congress papers; selected papers published in G. Standing (ed.), Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America (London, Anthem Press, 2004; revised 2005).

2001
  • Adviser to Taylor Committee of Enquiry on social security reform in South Africa. Published as Transforming the Present – Protecting the Future, Report of the Committee of Enquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa (Pretoria, Government Printer, 2002).
  • Presentation on social security options to the Indian Social Security Association Board, New Delhi, April.
  • Plenary speaker, with Mark Malloch-Brown, UNDP Administrator, at United Nations Development Programme conference on poverty and insecurity, Copenhagen, March.

2000
  • Lectures on “Global Labour Flexibility” at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November.
  • Participation in United Nations expert group meeting on Coping in Dire Circumstances: Traditional and Modern Schemes of Social Protection in the Context of Development, Cape Town, South Africa, 30 October-1 November.
  • Session chair at eighth Congress of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN) on Economic Citizenship Rights for the 21st Century, Berlin, 6-7 October. Conference summary; Congress papers 
  • Presentation on social protection to a summer school for trade unionists and employer association officials, University of Santander, Spain, September.
  • Presentation to conference on economic rights organised by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, June.
  • Invited speech on new forms of Voice representation, UN Social Forum, Geneva, June.

1999
  • Launch of Ukraine Socio-Economic Security Statistical System project, Kiev, December.
  • Presentation of book, Global Labour Flexibility, on the future of social protection, at the invitation of the World Bank’s Social Protection Division, Washington, D.C., 16 November.
  • Presentation on concepts of economic insecurity to Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., November.
  • Seminar presentations on global labour flexibility and economic insecurity at Universities of Warwick and Oxford (Queen Elizabeth House), and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, November.
  • Invited lecture at School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, August.

1998-99
  • Member of the “transition team” of Director-General-elect of the International Labour Organisation (Juan Somavia), with responsibility for reorganising ILO thinking on social protection.

1998
  • Chaired and organised session on economic rights for UN Development Programme conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Yalta, Ukraine, September.
  • Co-organised, co-chaired and gave plenary address to seventh Congress of the Basic Income European Network, Amsterdam, September. More details; Congress papers; selected papers published in R.J. van der Veen and L. Groot (eds.), Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Feasibility (Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2000).
  • Received Distinguished Alumni Award from the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, 19 June. 
  • Adviser to Russian Ministry of Labour on reform of Labour Code.
  • Presentation on labour market research priorities at World Bank conference on labour markets, Washington, D.C., March. 

1997
  • Guest editor, Special Issue of European Journal of Industrial Relations on Emerging Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe.

1996-97
  • Adviser to Minister of Labour, Government of South Africa.

1996
  • Participant in workshop on Management of Field Coordination for Senior UN System Representatives in Eastern European and Central Asian countries, Turin, 28 November-6 December 1996.
  • Co-organised and co-chaired sixth Congress of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), Vienna, 12-14 September 1996.
  • Co-ordinated and largely wrote the UNDP’s Human Development Report 1996: Russian Federation (Moscow, Academia, 1997).

1995-96
  • Member of advisory group for International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation, produced by the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). Published as G. Schmid, J. O'Reilly and K. Schömann (eds.), International Handbook of Labour Market Policy and Evaluation (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1996). Handbook summary
  • Coordinator of technical work for Presidential Labour Market Policy Commission, South Africa. Policy proposals and 500-page Review presented to the Cabinet of the South African Government and to President Nelson Mandela, June 1996. Published as Restructuring the South African Labour Market, Report of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Labour Market Policy (Cape Town, CTP for the Government Printer, 1996).


  • Designed and conducted two South African Labour Flexibility Surveys, supervising and participating in fieldwork in five industrial areas.

1995
  • Contributing author to UNDP’s Ukraine Human Development Report 1995 (Kiev, UNDP, 1995).
  • Consultant to UNDP’s Human Development Report 1995 (Oxford University Press for UNDP, 1995).
  • Invited by Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission, to be a member of technical advisory group on the Future of Work.

1994-95
  • Worked with international group of social policy specialists on project on welfare states in transition, concluding with book edited by Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Welfare States in Transition (London, Sage for UNRISD, 1996).
  • Organised first enterprise labour flexibility surveys in Ukraine, and convened high-level international conference on reforming labour market and social policy in Ukraine, Kiev, September.

1994
  • Co-organised and co-chaired fifth Congress of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), London, 8-10 September.

1993
  • Organised and co-chaired international tripartite conference on labour market reform in Bulgaria, Sofia, May.

1992-97
  • Designed and organised Russian Enterprise Labour Flexibility Surveys.

1992-95
  • Member, Technical Assistance Advisory Committee, Russian Federal Employment Service.

1992-93
  • Contributor and adviser to United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report 1993.

1992
  • Organised and chaired international conferences on enterprise restructuring of labour and employment in Russia, Moscow and St. Petersburg, October.

1991-92
  • Designed and helped organise Mexican Labour Flexibility Survey, with Ministry of Labour, and Chilean Labour Flexibility Survey, with the ILO’s Programa Regional de Empleo para America Latina y el Caribe (PREALC).

1991
  • Co-organiser of ILO-OECD high-level conference on Labour and Social Implications of Structural Change in Central and Eastern Europe, Paris, September. Selection of papers published in G. Fischer and G. Standing (eds.), Structural Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Labour Market and Social Policy Implications (Paris, OECD, 1993).
  • Organised first tripartite conference on labour policy in USSR, Moscow.
  • Organised workshop on Labour Policies in Eastern and Central Europe, ILO, Geneva, May.

1990-92
  • Member of US Social Science Research Council (South-East Asia).

1990
  • Organised conference with USSR State Committee for Labour and Social Affairs, Towards Flexibility and Employment Reform in the USSR, Moscow, 1-4 October. Papers published in G. Standing (ed.), In Search of Flexibility: The New Soviet labour Market (Geneva, ILO, 1991).
  • Co-organised and co-chaired third Congress of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN) on Economic Democracy and Citizenship Income, Florence, 19-20 September.
  • Designed and conducted Philippines Labour Flexibility Survey, with Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Government of the Philippines.

1989
  • Participation in seminar on Trade Unions and the Economy: Into the 1990s, organised by the Employment Institute and the Trades Union Congress, London, 21 March.

1988-89
  • Consultant, Prime Minister’s Department, Government of Malaysia. Helped prepare and coordinate national Human Resources Development Plan, organised national industrial survey of 3,100 companies and co-ordinated a series of projects for the Government.

1988
  • Co-organised and co-chaired second Congress of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN), Antwerp, September. Proceedings published as W. Van Trier (ed.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Basic Income (London, Basic Income Research Group and Antwerp, BIEN, 1990).
  • Participation in EEC colloquium on Vieillissement et population active, Brussels, 7-8 September. 
  • Speech at conference on Citizenship, Income and Work, St. George's Consultation, Windsor Castle, 14-16 March.

1987-89
  • Member of Bruno Kreisky’s Commission on Employment Issues in Europe. Report published as A Programme for Full Employment in the 1990s (Oxford, Pergamon, 1989).


Kreisky Commission, Paris, 1989.


1987
  • Consultant to Egyptian Government on development of a National Labour Information System.

1986-87
  • Member, Advisory Council of European Claimants’ Union.

1986
  • Elected Chairman, Basic Income European Network (BIEN), at its inaugural congress in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 4-6 September. Proceedings published as A.G. Miller (ed.), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Basic Income (London, Basic Income Research Group and Antwerp, BIEN, 1988).
  • Consultant to Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on contract labour migration in Asia.

1985
  • Adviser to Brazilian Ministry of Labour on a survey of child labour.

1984-85
  • Consultant to European Commission on European regional underemployment.
  • Adviser to Government of Thailand on child labour survey.

1983
  • Consultant to World Bank for 1984 World Development Report.

1981-83
  • Consultant for national labour mobility survey, Prime Minister’s Department, Government of Malaysia.

1979
  • Consultant to US National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics.  Report published as Counting the Labor Force (Washington, D.C., US Government Printing Office, 1979).

1978
  • Fieldwork on the design and conduct of the Ludhiana Migration Survey (Punjab, India).