Andrew Stern is President Emeritus of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where he led historic organizing campaigns that added more than 1.2 million workers and helped transform low-wage service jobs into family-supporting careers.

Under his leadership, SEIU became the fastest-growing union in the world, built the nation’s largest political fund, and played a pivotal role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Described as a “courageous, visionary leader,” Stern has been featured on 60 Minutes and CNN, and on the covers of The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and BusinessWeek. A presidential appointee to the Simpson-Bowles Commission, he is a Senior Fellow at the Economic Security Project and the author of two books, A Country That Works and Raising the Floor, which advocates for universal basic income as a response to job displacement from technology and AI.

He currently directs a project focused on worker-centered transition strategies for rideshare drivers as autonomous vehicles scale.