Elizabeth A. Bennett

Lewis & Clark College

Elizabeth A. Bennett, PhD, is the Joseph M. Ha Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of Political Economy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She recently completed a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, is an on-going fellow at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, and will be a Senior Fellow in residence at the Center Basiliense at the University of Basel in fall 2025. Dr. Bennett is internationally recognized for her expertise on labor exploitation in globalized supply chains and serves on the Academic Advisory Council to the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards. Currently, she is working on a book about the ways in which voluntary sustainability certifications and fair trade labels have both supported and challenged living wages, employee ownership, and profit-sharing. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Brown University and a MALD (Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy) focused on political economy and development from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She completed her dissertation in residence as a Research Associate at the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade (CFAT) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.