PROFESSOR GUY STANDING

Guy Standing gained his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Sussex in 1971. After taking a masters in labour economics and industrial relations at the University of Illinois, he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge in 1977. From 1975 to 2006, he worked at the International Labour Organization (ILO), latterly as director of the ILO's Socio-Economic Security Programme. The programme was responsible for a major report on socio-economic security worldwide and for the creation of the Decent Work Index. From 2006 he was Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University in Australia and Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath. In 2013 he became Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is now a Professorial Research Associate working on projects that have attracted a great amount of international attention on precarious working conditions and, most recently, universal basic income. His publications include The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011), A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014) and Basic Income as Common Dividends: Piloting a Transformative Policy (2019). He is a founding member and honorary co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network, a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all. His work in this area and on the precariat has large-scale implications globally at a policy level for responsible leadership.