Our Team
Julian Germann
Julian Germann is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research uses international trade, investment, and corporate profit data to analyse the sectoral exposure and lobby politics of German industry vis-à-vis China. This work, which appeared in Review of International Political Economy, Global Political Economy, and (together with Starrs) Development and Change, aims to intervene in key policy debates over corporate Germany’s dependence on China and the German government’s new China strategy.
Joseph Baines
Joseph Baines is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European & International Studies at King’s College London. He has pioneered an approach and led work that translates categories from global value chain research into quantifiable metrics and marshals Bloomberg Professional supply-chain and company-map datasets to analyse global production networks at micro and macro-levels. He has published in numerous academic journals including Competition & Change, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy, as well as leading news outlets such as Le Monde, The Guardian, Tribune and The Conversation.It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Sean K. Starrs
Sean Kenji Starrs (Lecturer in International Development, King’s College London) argues we need to reconceptualize national economic power in the age of globalization. Most analysts still aggregate and compare national accounts, ignoring the implications of the globalization of finance and production. Instead, our empirical analysis must encompass the transnational operations of transnational corporations. To this end, Sean has been constructing three unique datasets since 2010: the sectoral national profit-shares of the Forbes Global 2000 (world’s top 2,000 corporations dating back to 2005), the sectoral national profit-shares of the Fortune International 200 (the top 200 global industrial firms since 1963), and corporate ownership structures of the world’s top 500 corporations extracted from Bloomberg Professional (from 2010 onwards).
Steven Rolf
Steve Rolf is ESRC Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work (Digit) Research Centre, University of Sussex Business. He works on Chinese and international political economy, and the emergence, dynamics and implications of China-US competition in the field of digital and physical technologies. His current research focuses on the economic and power dynamics of digitalisation, including the intersection of state capitalism and digital platforms.