Enayati promoted to Assistant Executive Director within ICS

Hassan Enayati has been promoted to Assistant Executive Director within the Institute for Compensation Studies.

Hassan’s new role involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and directing professional administrative activities, operations, and programs of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University, ILR School. His term begins Monday, July 1, 2019.

Hassan is a labor economist in the ILR School at Cornell University. He holds joint appointments within the Institute on Compensation Studies and the Yang-Tan Institute. Hassan received his B.A. and M.S. in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University with a doctoral specialization in the economics of education.

Hassan’s research with ICS relies on the methodological approaches developed in labor economics and, more broadly, applied microeconomics to examine employment and compensation questions including executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, involvement with the criminal justice system, disability gaps, and the green infrastructure workforce.

Hassan leads the student research mentoring program at ICS. This program offers students from across Cornell University interdisciplinary research, classroom, and internship community opportunities focused on probing and analyzing the full spectrum of issues and challenges surrounding monetary and non-monetary rewards from work.