Alan Wild is Managing Partner of BEERG and Director of Global Affairs for the Washington based HR Policy Association. He has undertaken employment policy work in more than 80 countries throughout the world including every one of the EU’s 27 member states.
He worked for more than 20 years in major international companies in America, Europe and Africa, ending his corporate career as the Global Employment Policy Director of the liquor giant Guinness. After a four-year spell running the European industrial relations consulting firm A-W-C, and setting up European Works Councils in more than 100 household name companies, Alan spent five years with the International Labour Organisation in Geneva as Human Resources Director.
Alan has worked on behalf of business with the Confederation of British Industry, The European employers’ federation BUSINESSEUROPE, the European Union, the business advisory body of the OECD - BIAC, the International Organisation of Employers and the International Labour Organisation.
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He has written six books on international employee relations issues:- Works Councils in Practice; Making Sense of the European Social Chapter; and a series of four works commissioned and published in 2005 by the ILO on Governance, Strategic Planning, Advocacy and Revenue Building in employers’ organisations. His major report on Restructuring in the new EU Member States was published by the European level social partners BUSINESSEUROPE and ETUC in the autumn of 2006 and this will be followed up by a more substantial work in early 2010. His report on restructuring in Public Sector organisations was published by CEEP in November 2007. He is co-author, with Tom Hayes, of the BEERG/HRPolicy publications on the recast European Works Council Directive and global collective bargaining trends in 2009.
Alan was born in Sheffield, England, and now lives with his wife Motoko and their two children in Geneva, Switzerland.
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