Richard M. Locke teaches in both MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the MIT Department of Political Science in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Locke’s research focuses on economic adjustment and development, comparative labor relations and political economy.

Locke is Faculty Director of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program, a mid-career executive education program at the Sloan School of Management He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, an M.A in Education from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT.