Gary Gereffi

Gary Gereffi
Alma mater University of Notre Dame
Yale University
Scientific career
Fields Sociology
Institutions Duke University

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 has 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

  1. ↑ "Gary Gereffi". Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Gary Gereffi" (PDF). Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  3. ↑ Sarah Dwyer (November 29, 2016). "In Appalachia, Bass Connections Team Finds Untold Stories of Rural Development". Duke Today. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Gary Gereffi in visita alle aziende orafe per un progetto di ricerca" (in Italian). Valenza: Alessandra News. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ Jeannine Sato (February 13, 2017). "Cybersecurity Threats Growing More Sophisticated". Duke Today. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  • 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).
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