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Dr. Anil Verma is Professor Emeritus, Rotman School of Management, and the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, University of Toronto. He served as the director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources during 2009 to 2015. He has taught previously at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of British Columbia, University of Saskatchewan, and worked in the steel industry as an engineer. He has taught by invitation in Vietnam, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Thailand. During 2013 to 2014, he was appointed by the Government of Ontario as Chair, Minimum Wage Advisory Panel. He served on the Advisory Board, Sheffield University Business School (UK) and was a Visiting Professor at Middlesex University Business School (UK) during 2005 to 2010.
He has served as president of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association and on the Executive Board of the International Labour & Employment Relations Association (ILERA), Geneva. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Labour and Income Statistics at Statistics Canada (1993 to 2015); and, a member of the Board of Directors of COSTI Immigration Services (2006 to 2015), the largest such non-profit agency in Canada.
He has co-edited several books including: Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Restructuring Work and the Life Course (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001); Contract and Commitment: Employment Relations in the New Economy (Kingston, ON: IRC Press, 1999); Regionalization and Labour Market Interdependence in East and South-east Asia (London: Macmillan, 1997). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia)
He earned a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management, MIT; M.B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada); and B.Tech.(Elec.Engg.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India). His primary research interests are in the area of management responses to unionization, participative forms of work organization, wage and employment outcomes, policy responses to technology and globalization, international labour standards, social enterprises, and lifelong learning.
Professor Verma consults with a variety of businesses, unions, governments, and international agencies such as the ILO, the OECD, and the World Bank. He co-authored an OECD report on Preparing for the Future of Work in Canada, published in 2020. His recent work has focused on labour standards compliance in global supply chains.