Gary Gereffi
Gary Gereffi is an American Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University.
Early life
Gereffi obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and then got his Master's and Ph.D. from Yale University.[1] He have many grants from prestigious places such as Rockefeller Foundation (2005-2008), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006) and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (2008-2009) as well as a fellowship from Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.[2]
Research
In 2006 Gereffi, along with Stacey Frederick have founded a website called North Carolina in the Global Economy. Realizing its potential he years later, he paired up with Lukas Brun from Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness to develop their first Bass Connections team, whose responsibility would be to update the site with new data.[3]
In 2016 he paired up with Joonkoo Lee of Hanyang University Business School.[4]
Personal life
Professor Gereffi is fluent in Spanish and is able to read in Italian, French and Portuguese.[2] In November 2016, upon returning from Kazakhstan, he was informed by his IT department that his computer at Duke University have been hacked by a spearphishing malware.[5]
References
- ↑ "Gary Gereffi". Retrieved March 31, 2017.
- 1 2 "Gary Gereffi" (PDF). Retrieved March 31, 2017.
- ↑ Sarah Dwyer (November 29, 2016). "In Appalachia, Bass Connections Team Finds Untold Stories of Rural Development". Duke Today. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
- ↑ "Gary Gereffi in visita alle aziende orafe per un progetto di ricerca" (in Italian). Valenza: Alessandra News. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
- ↑ Jeannine Sato (February 13, 2017). "Cybersecurity Threats Growing More Sophisticated". Duke Today. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
External links
- Remo Zaccagna (January 25, 2013). "Ships contract creates opportunities offshore". The Chronicle Herald.
- Interview: Gary Gereffi PBS
- Intan Suwandi (July 1, 2015). "Behind the Veil of Globalization". Monthly Review. 67 (3).
- Intan Suwandi and John Bellamy Foster (July 1, 2016). "Multinational Corporations and the Globalization of Monopoly Capital". Monthly Review. 68 (3).