SANCHITA SAXENA

Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena is a Senior Advisor at Article One. She has over 20 years of experience advising companies, governments, and civil society organizations on sustainable supply chains. Her expertise includes actionable research, stakeholder engagement and coalition building, business development, training, and advocacy.

Sanchita is a professional faculty member at UC Berkeley where she teaches classes about business, labor, and global supply chains. She is also an Academic Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business. Sanchita 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, and research briefs.

Sanchita has 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, the H&M Foundation, GIZ Initiative for Global Solidarity, and Caribou Digital. She was recently appointed as Vice Chair to the Standards Committee for the Green Button (Grüner Knopf) initiative to advise the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany, on the revision of the government-run certification label for sustainable textiles.

She is currently a non-resident Research Fellow at the Institute of Human Rights and Business and is a member of the Research Network on Sustainable Global Supply Chains. Sanchita is a sought out public speaker and moderator and frequently gives invited lectures and publishes commentaries in the popular media.

Sanchita holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.