Team — Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor

The Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor is a private network of CEOs, founders, investors, and other business leaders reinventing corporate America’s relationship with organized labor.

The Roundtable is powered by an interdisciplinary team from multiple sectors and organizations.


Roy Bahat

Head of Bloomberg Beta

Roy Bahat is a venture capitalist at Bloomberg Beta and teaches at UC Berkeley. He also chairs the Aspen Institute’s Business Roundtable on Organized Labor and was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission.


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Maureen Conway

Vice President, The Aspen Institute; Executive Director, Economic Opportunities Program

Maureen Conway serves as vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program (EOP). Maureen has headed up workforce research at the Aspen Institute since 1999 and curates a public discussion series at the Aspen Institute, Opportunity in America, which brings together voices from business, labor, policy, human services, media, academia, and others to discuss the challenges experienced by many in today’s labor markets and new ideas for addressing these challenges. Read more.


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Tom Kochan

George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management; Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management

Thomas A. Kochan is the Emeritus George Maverick Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a faculty member in the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research.


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Wilma Liebman

Former Chair, National Labor Relations Board

Wilma Liebman served on the National Labor Relations Board under three presidents of both parties, and was its chair from 2009 to 2011. Since then, she has served in various advisory roles, including as chief external ethics officer of the United Auto Workers, and she has taught at several universities, most recently the New York University School of Law. She is a member of the boards of directors of the Economic Policy Institute and Ownership Works.


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Liba Wenig Rubenstein

Director, Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, The Aspen Institute

Liba Wenig Rubenstein is the director of the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, where she organizes “labor-open” business leaders to explore ways their workers can have a more meaningful seat at the table. She was previously head of social impact at 21st Century Fox and Tumblr.


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Merrit Stüven

Senior Project Manager, Economic Opportunitites Program, The Aspen Institute

Merrit Stüven is a senior project manager at the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program. Her work includes managing projects and conducting research focused on job quality and economic security, primarily for lower-income workers. She is especially passionate about worker power, gender and racial equity, and creating an economic system that centers the needs of people.