Department of Management, Society and Communication

I conduct research and teach students about the role of business in the governance of equitable and sustainable development. I am trained in global value chain analysis, which I use to understand how businesses organize their activities in global networks of production and consumption. My research draws from theories in International Political Economy, Economic Sociology and Economic Geography to examine the economic, political and cultural dimensions of these networks/value chains and their articulation with power and inequality.

I am specialized in food and natural resource industries, and the governance of environmental sustainability in them. With my research and teaching I aim to foster analytical and critical thinking about the potential of different governance instruments to advance just and equitable sustainability in the context of globally fragmented production. I put on emphasis on empirically well-grounded yet theoretically ambitious research, and a teaching approach that both uses and critically evaluates theories through engagement with real-world cases.