NWCDC 2018

John Ruser
President and CEO
Workers' Compensation Research Institute


John W. Ruser, Ph.D. has 35 years of professional experience in conducting and managing economic research projects in labor and health economics, and in managing and interpreting economic surveys pertaining to employee pay, benefits and working conditions. He is currently President and CEO of the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an independent, not-for-profit research organization. Dr. Ruser is responsible for executive leadership and strategic planning for the Institute, as well as oversight of the Institute’s economic and statistical research program. Dr. Ruser previously held three executive positions in the Federal statistical system, serving as Associate Commissioner for Productivity and Technology and Assistant Commissioner for Safety, Health and Working Conditions, both at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and Associate Director for Regional Economics at the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. In these three positions, he managed statistical programs that produced data on productivity, worker safety and health, and regional income, price and product accounts. Previously, Dr. Ruser was a researcher and Chief of the BLS office that conducted research on and improved measures of employee pay, benefits and working conditions in the US. Dr. Ruser has written many academic peer-reviewed and non-technical articles and book chapters on employee compensation and occupational safety and health. He holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in economics from Princeton University.

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