Thomas A. Kochan (born September 28, 1947) is a professor of industrial relations, work and employment.

[5] The EPRN web site launched in January 2011 with 100 researchers from 35 universities, including MIT, Harvard, California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Michigan State, Pennsylvania State University and UCLA.

[8] He has served as a third-party mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator and as a consultant to a variety of government and private sector organizations and labor-management groups.

[9] Kochan focuses on the need to update America's work and employment policies, institutions, and practices to catch up with a changing workforce and economy.

Through empirical research, he demonstrates that fundamental changes in the quality of work and employment relations are needed to address America's critical problems in industries ranging from healthcare to airlines to manufacturing.