Alessandra Mezzadri
Professor
Gender Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Alessandra holds degrees in Economics from Universita’ degli Studi La Sapienza of Rome, and in Development Studies (SOAS), where she completed a PhD on the production of cheap labour in the Indian export-oriented garment industry. She has done external consultancy work for DFID, UNIDO and ActionAid-UK, on issues such as poverty, global labour standards and gender. She writes and/or teaches on issues related to global commodity chains and production networks; informality and informalisation; labour standards and CSR; inequality Alessandra holds degrees in Economics from Universita’ degli Studi La Sapienza of Rome, and in Development Studies (SOAS), where she completed a PhD on the production of cheap labour in the Indian export-oriented garment industry. She has done external consultancy work for DFID, UNIDO and ActionAid-UK, on issues such as poverty, global labour standards and gender. She writes and/or teaches on issues related to global commodity chains and production networks; informality and informalisation; labour standards and CSR; inequality, gender and globalisation; and reproductive labour., gender and globalisation; and reproductive labour.
Research Interest
Gender Studies
