GALE AUDREY RAJ-REICHERT
PERSONAL
Address
Telephone
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Date of birth
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Heimstr. 12
10965 Berlin
Germany
+49 030 600 316 88
gale.raj@gmail.com; gale.reichert@manchester.ac.uk
30 June 1976
German
EDUCATION
 PhD 2012
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Dissertation title: Governance in global production networks: Managing environmental
health risks in the personal computer production chain
 Master of Public Policy 2003
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
 Bachelor of Science 1999
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
AWARDS & FUNDING
 British Academy grant to organise an Early Career Regional Event, 2014
 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2014 – 2016
 Hallsworth Fellowship Support for Fieldwork Research, 2014 - 2016
 Research Stimulation Fund, School of Environment and Development, University of
Manchester, 2013
 Journal of Development Studies Workshop and Conference Support Fund, 2012
 Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship, School of Environment and Development,
University of Manchester, 2006-2008, 2010-2011
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014 – 2016
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Research on changing power relationships in the electronics industry global production
network and its impact on labour governance
Lecturer in International Development, 2013
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Master level courses taught: Political Economy of Development; Politics and Development.
Dissertation supervisor for MSc students.
Programme Director of the Master in Globalisation and Development programme and
Lecturer in Globalisation and Development, 2011 to 2013
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
Master level courses taught: Transformations in the World economy; Work and employment
in the global economy
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2006-2008, 2010-2011
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester
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Tutorial instructor for Master level courses: Research Skills for Development; Global
institutions, trade and development; Economic development. Guest lecturer for Master level
course Global institutions, trade and development.
PUBLICATIONS
 Nadvi, K., Raj-Reichert, G. (forthcoming) Governing health and safety risks at the global
and local scales of the personal computer global value chain, Regulation & Governance
 International Labor Organisation (2014) Ups and downs in the electronics industry:
Fluctuating production and the use of temporary and other forms of employment, Issues
paper for discussion at the Global Dialogue Forum on the adaptability of companies to
deal with fluctuating demands and the incidence of temporary and other forms of
employment in electronics, Geneva. (contributing author)
 Raj-Reichert, G. (2013) Safeguarding labour in relocated factories: Health and safety
governance in an electronics global production network, Geoforum, special edition on
Global Production Networks, Labour and Development, Vol. 44: 23-31
 Raj-Reichert, G. (2011) The Electronic Industry Code of Conduct: Private governance in a
competitive and contested global production network, Competition and Change special
edition on Governance, Value Chains, Offshoring and Outsourcing, Vol. 15.3: 221-238
 Contributing author in Racine, J-L. (2011) Harnessing quality for global competitiveness:
Eastern Europe and Central Asia’s quality and standards, World Bank: Washington, DC.
 Borrero, E. and Raj, G. (2005) General Agreement on Trade in Services Conditions to
Achieve Developing Country Objectives, T.R.A.D.E. Series Occasional Paper 13, South
Centre, Geneva.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
 “Understanding power relations to improve labour governance in global production
networks: the rise of contract manufacturers in the electronics industry”, presentation to be
made at the Annual Association of American Geographers conference, Chicago, April
2014.
 “What role for contract manufacturers in governing labor conditions in the electronics
industry global value chain? Exploring changing power relationships” presented at the
Annual Conference of The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Chicago,
10 July 2014.
 Paper presentation on power and global production networks at the University of Kassel
Workshop on Global Production Networks in Kassel, Germany, 15 – 16 July 2013.
 "Governing environmental health risks in the personal computer global production
network" paper co-presenter with Dr. Khalid Nadvi for the Mini-Conferences/Regulating
Labor and Environment: Beyond the Public-Private Divide for the 24th Annual Meeting
of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics to be held at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, June 28 - 30, 2012
 “Changing relationships of brands and contract manufacturers in the electronics industry
global production network: implications for the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition”
presentation for the Annual Royal Geographical Society Conference, After Relationality:
New Directions for Economic Geography session, 31 August - 2 September 2011
 “Neoliberal Governance over Health and Safety in a Computer Global Production
Network”. Paper presented at the Annual Royal Geographical Society with IBG
Conference, Global Production Networks, Labour and Development session, London, 3
September 2010.
 Discussant at the Working for Export Markets: Labour and Livelihoods in Global
Production Networks Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, 2 July 2010.
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“Environmental health governance in the personal computer global value chain”. Paper
presented at the Global Value Chains, Development and the Changing Shape of the World
Economy workshop. University of Manchester, Manchester, 27 May 2010.
“Environmental health governance of the global value chain of the personal computer
industry”. Paper presented at the School of Environment and Development University of
Manchester Postgraduate Research Conference, Manchester, 19 May 2010.
“The Electronic Industry Code of Conduct: Standards governing environmental and
occupational health risks in the computer global value chain and the relocation of harmful
production”. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers Conference, Spaces of Standards and Standardization session, Washington
DC, 17 April 2010.
“Environmental Governance in Global Value Chains and the Relocation of Harmful
Production in the Personal Computer Industry”. Paper presented at the Promoting
Sustainable Global Value Chains: The Role of Governance seminar, Maastricht School of
Management, Maastricht, 26 November 2009.
“Environmental Governance in Global Value Chains and the Relocation of Dirty
Production to Developing Countries”. Markets for Peace? Workshop, Danish Institute for
International Studies, Copenhagen, 26 June 2008.
REVIEWEE
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2014
Geoforum, 2013
Regulation & Governance, 2012-2013
European Journal of Development Research, 2013-2014
OTHER (NON ACADEMIC) EXPERIENCE
 Programme officer on trade in services, 2003-2006
South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
 Environment Programme Assistant, 1999 - 2001
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, USA
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