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 sought out public speaker and moderator and regularly gives invited lectures globally.
Dr. Saxena is a professional faculty member at the Haas School of Business, 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) at UC Berkeley. She also teaches in a number of programs for corporate executives and practitioners, including through the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and the University of Bergen, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the Centre for Sustainable Business at the University College London (UCL), and the Business and Human Rights Summer School in Italy.
Dr. Saxena is currently a Senior Advisor to Article One, a specialized strategy and management consultancy with expertise in human rights, responsible innovation, and sustainability. She has also served as an advisor to a number of organizations including the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, GIZ Initiative for Global Solidarity, and the H&M Foundation. She is currently a non-resident Research Fellow at the IHRB and is a member of the Research Network on Sustainable Global Supply Chains. In the past, she was a Visiting Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (2023-2024), a visiting Researcher at the Copenhagen Business School (2023), a practitioner resident at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy (2016), and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C (2010 and 2014). Prior to these roles, she was the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley. For more information, please visit sanchitasaxena.com.