Richard M. Locke
Assumed office
December 2022 (2022-12)
Personal details
Born (1959-04-22) April 22, 1959
Boston, MA
SpouseZairo Cheibub (2014-present) Jessica Barton (divorced)
ChildrenJuliana (1990) Nate (1993)
Residence(s)California, U.S.
Alma materWesleyan University
University of Chicago
MIT
ProfessionCorporate Officer

Richard Michael Locke (born April 22, 1959) is Dean of Apple University. Locke joined Apple after serving as the 13th provost of Brown University.[1][2] He served as provost for 7.5 years, one of the longest serving provosts of Brown University.

Biography

The second of four children of Franca Franzaroli, Locke is a 1981 graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a master's degree in education from the University of Chicago.[3][4] He served as chair of MIT's Political Science Department and deputy dean in the MIT Sloan School of Management.[5][6]

Locke was named the Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University in January 2018.[7]

Locke currently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[8] and the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Better Work Program Advisory Committee.[9] He has also served as chair of the Academic Advisory Board at Apple Inc.[10]

For his research on fair and safe working conditions in global supply chains, Locke was awarded with an inaugural Progress Medal for Scholarship and Leadership on Fairness and Well-being by the Society for Progress in 2016.[11]

In 2014, Locke married his MIT classmate, Zairo Cheibub.

Selected publications

  • "Remaking the Italian Economy". Cornell University Press. 1995.[12]
  • "Production in the Innovation Economy". MIT Press. 2014.[13]
  • "The Promise and Limits of Private Power". Cambridge University Press. 2013.[14]
  • "Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike". IRL Review. 2007.[15]
  • "Working in America". MIT Press. 2001.[16]
  • "Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy". MIT Press. 1995.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Knobloch, Baylor (2015-12-04). "A dynamic provost, paving the way for Brown". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  2. ↑ Knobloch, Baylor (2015-06-01). "Richard Locke named next provost". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  3. ↑ "Brown Daily Herald". December 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Locke '81 Named Director at Brown University". News @ Wesleyan. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  5. ↑ "Richard Locke - Faculty | MIT Sloan School of Management". mitsloan.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  6. ↑ #<Author:0x00007fd4fca3db98>. "Course 17 head, Sloan dean to leave MIT". The Tech. Retrieved 2018-12-16. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Locke named 13th provost of Brown University". Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  8. ↑ "Membership Roster". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  9. ↑ "Richard LOCKE – Better Work". betterwork.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  10. ↑ "Apple creates academic advisory board to oversee its Supplier Responsibility program". Engadget. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  11. ↑ societyforprogress.org. "Richard M. Locke | Society for Progress". societyforprogress.org. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  12. ↑ Locke, Richard M. (1997). Remaking the Italian Economy. Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801484216.
  13. ↑ "Production in the Innovation Economy". MIT Press. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  14. ↑ "Promise and limits private power promoting labor standards global economy | Comparative politics". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  15. ↑ Locke, Richard M.; Qin, Fei; Brause, Alberto (2007). "Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike". Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 61 (1): 3–31. doi:10.1177/001979390706100101. JSTOR 25249121. S2CID 220636876.
  16. ↑ "Working in America". The MIT Press. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  17. ↑ "Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy". The MIT Press. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
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