Description

Ongun Durhan is PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Business School, studying the relationship between Global Value Chains, environmental sustainability and inequality. For more information, see https://abs.uva.nl/research/phd-research/phd-projects/ongun-durhan.html

Philip Schleifer is Associate Professor of Transnational Governance at the Political Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. Previously to his appointment at the UvA, he was a Max Weber Fellow and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Philip's research agenda focuses on the politics and governance of sustainability in the global economy. For more info, visit his website: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/s/c/p.schleifer/p.schleifer.html#Book

Mike Lees is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Informatics at the University of Amsterdam, leading the Computational Science Lab. In his research, he aims to develop novel methods in agent-based modelling (modelling methodology) and discrete-event simulation (computation execution). This includes methods for semiautomatic model construction, modelling formalisms that are able to capture human behaviour and new ways to probe and measure social-urban systems to be able to validate and calibrate such models. For more information visit his website at https://mhlees.com/

Klaas Hendrik Eller is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Center for Transformative Private Law (ACT) and affiliated with the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) research project.

His research interests are centered around the role of (private) law in social and technological change, particularly through an angle of contract and economic law, alongside comparative and international private law as well as human rights. For more information visit https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/e/l/k.h.eller/k.h.eller.html#Profile.

Genevieve LeBaron is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University and PI of ReStructure Lab. She serves on the UK Parliament’s Modern Slavery and the Supply Chain Advisory Group and the reference group for United Nations Delta 8.7. She was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020.

Her research focuses on labour rights and standards in the global economy and the governance of supply chains, which is the subject of her most recent books, Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It (Polity, 2020) and Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy (with David Blight and Jessica Pliley, Cambridge University Press, 2021). For more information, visit her website https://www.genevievelebaron.com.

Andreas Rühmkorf is professor of business law at Westfälische Hochschule. His research focuses on two primary areas: legal strategies to promote social responsibility and human rights in global supply chains and company law and corporate governance in a comparative and international context. Andreas is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility, Private Law and Global Supply Chains (Edward Elgar, 2015) and was Co-Investigator on the Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART) research project that was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program from 2015-2020. For more information visit his website at https://www.w-hs.de/service/informationen-zur-person/person/ruehmkorf/

Anne’s work with Katalyst Initiative builds on her track record of working collaboratively to find practical, yet principled solutions to some of the most difficult human rights challenges in the garment industry. For more than two decades, Anne has focused on developing regulatory structures that foreground and defend worker rights in the globalised and globalising economic system. She has innovated with groups like Clean Clothes Campaign, Fair Labor Association, Global Reporting Initiative, Jo-In, and WellMade, as well as with government ministries and intergovernmental organisations. In recent years Anne has played a vital role in re-envisioning the industry’s approach to living wages at Fair Wear Foundation, where she has (co-)authored various publications, including Living Wages: An Explorers Notebook, Living Wage Engineering, and The Fair Wear Formula. She has also served as Executive Director of a US fair trade organisation, and monitored human rights issues at the UN in Geneva and New York. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.

Martin has more than 30 years of policy, strategy and communications experience, including 20 years of involvement with the global garment industry. His background includes work in government and NGO environments, as well as a several years working at garment brands. He held a 2020 Policy Leader Fellowship at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance. He previously served as Senior Policy and Research Officer at Fair Wear Foundation, where he worked with a wide range of stakeholder groups, helping to develop Fair Wear’s Brand Performance Check system, living wage strategy, research agenda and overall strategic direction. Martin holds a BA from Macalester College and an MSc in International Management from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ans Kolk is full professor at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School, The Netherlands. Her areas of expertise are in corporate social responsibility, sustainable development and sustainability, especially in relation to international business. For more information visit her personal website https://www.anskolk.eu/

Khadija van der Straaten is Assistant Professor researching International Business and Sustainability at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her main research topics include gender and inequality in multinational enterprises and their value chains. For more information, visit her website at https://www.eur.nl/people/khadija-van-der-straaten.

Eelke Heemskerk is Professor of Political Networks at the Political Science department. Eelke published on corporate governance, corporate elites, social networks and institutional reform in the Netherlands and Europe, big data related to networks of corporate ownership and control and the political economy of sustainable finance in the age of passive investing. For more information visit his personal website www.eelkeheemskerk.nl.