Course: ER 192 Business, Sustainability, and Society
Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and has over 20 years of experience working on issues related to labor rights in global supply chains, with a special focus on the garment industry in Asia. She is the editor of Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza (Routledge, 2020), author of Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries (Cambria Press, 2014), and author of a number of articles, reports, commentaries and research briefs. Dr. Saxena is a lecturer in the Energy and Resources Group and the Legal Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches classes about business, labor and global supply chains. She is also currently a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and an Academic Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business at UC Berkeley. She is also a Senior Advisor to Article One, a specialized strategy and management consultancy with expertise in human rights, responsible innovation, and sustainability where she advises companies on responsible supply chains. She was recently appointed to the Standards Committee of Green Button where she advises the German government on its sustainability standards. For more information, please visit sanchitasaxena.com.
