Peter Ester

Peter Ester is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Labour Studies (OSA) at Tilburg University, the Netherlands) and senior fellow at ZUMA, Center for Survey Analysis and Methodology, Mannheim, Germany. Professor Ester is Chairman of Dutch Statistics’ Committee of Society & Economics, and Member of the Advisory Board of Dutch Statistics. He is Chairman of CentERdata, an Internet-based panel survey research institute. Former Director of GLOBUS, Institute for Globalization and of IVA, Institute for Social Research. He was visiting professor at several international universities, including the University of Michigan, Virginia Tech, University of California. Fulbright scholar at Claremont College, California. Founding Member of EGOPSI, European Group of Organization Surveying Institutes.

He has published extensively on cross-national labour market trends, flexibility, ICT and the work organization, youth and the labour market, work orientations, work and mobility. Author of over 250 publications. Evaluator for the European Commission and coordinator of and investigator in several major European labour market studies (STILE, WORKS, MEADOW), and studies for the European Foundation for Working and Living Conditions on cross-border mobility trends and on work-life balance attitudes.