Jeffrey Henderson

Jeffrey Henderson, originally from the counties of Durham and York in northern England, studied sociology, history and politics at universities in Britain and the United States. Professor Emeritus of International Development in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, he taught previously at the Universities of Birmingham, Hong Kong and Manchester. He has held Visiting Professorships or Fellowships at the Universities of Lodz, Warwick, Glasgow, Melbourne, New England, Leeds, California at Berkeley, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz and at Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was a recipient of a Leverhulme Major Fellowship and has delivered invited lectures at leading universities in China, Singapore, Australia, the United States, Egypt, the UAE, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, The Netherlands, Taiwan and Japan. He has been an advisor to the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Council of Europe and the UK Parliament, as well as to government agencies, politicians and NGOs in Britain and Hong Kong. He is currently Vice-Chair of the China in Europe Research Network.

Jeffrey Henderson’s research is broadly concerned with the political economy and sociology of economic development, with particular foci on East Asia and Europe. Inter alia, he co-founded global production networks research, now one of the principal approaches for understanding the relation of foreign investment to economic development. He has also studied the relation of economic governance to inequality and poverty and has previously worked on racial inequality in Britain and the USA. He has a continuing research interest in the relation between the over-centralisation of the British state and the underdevelopment of the British nations and English regions. His current research is concerned with global China and its implications for Europe.

Professor Henderson’s books and journal special issues include: The Wind from the East - China and the Economic Future of Europe (2021: with Nana de Graaff); Globalisation with Chinese Characteristics (2013: with Richard P. Appelbaum and Suet Ying Ho); East Asian Transformation (2011); Industrial Transformation in Eastern Europe in the Light of the East Asian Experience (1998); States and Development in the Asian Pacific Rim (1992: with Richard P. Appelbaum); The Globalisation of High Technology Production (1989); Global Restructuring and Territorial Development (1987: with Manuel Castells) and Race, Class and State Housing (1987: with Valerie Karn).