Gary Gereffi

Gary Gereffi
Alma mater	University of Notre Dame Yale University
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	Duke University

Gary Gereffi is an American Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness at Duke University.

Gereffi obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and then got his Master's and Ph.D. from Yale University. He has many grants from prestigious places such as Rockefeller Foundation (2005–2008), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2006) and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (2008–2009) as well as a fellowship from Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

In 2006 Gereffi, along with Stacey Frederick have founded a website called North Carolina in the Global Economy. Realizing its potential he years later, he paired up with Lukas Brun from Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness to develop their first Bass Connections team, whose responsibility would be to update the site with new data.

In 2016 he paired up with Joonkoo Lee of Hanyang University Business School.

Professor Gereffi is fluent in Spanish and is able to read in Italian, French and Portuguese. In November 2016, upon returning from Kazakhstan, he was informed by his IT department that his computer at Duke University have been hacked by a spearphishing malware.

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