Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee

Dr. Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, ChainGE Lab Postdoctoral Fellow and Parasol Fellow

Shikha is a researcher, lawyer, and advocate. Her work brings together legal analysis, interdisciplinary social science research, and social theory. Shikha studies global value chains and migration corridors in order to inform legal and quasi-legal regimes at international, national, and sub-national levels. Her focus on gender and race in the global economy considers how social governance regimes articulate in relationship to legal, financial, and political regimes. 

Shikha holds a PhD from University of California Berkeley, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a BA in English and Ethnicity, Race and Migration from Yale University. Her research has been well covered in the media, including by Al Jazeera, BBC News, CNN, Devex, The Guardian, Huffington Post, The Nation, The New York Times, Reuters, TIME, VICE, and Vogue Business

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