Georgetown Americas Institute

Stacey Frederick was director (2018–2021), research scientist (2010–2018), and research affiliate (2005–2009) of the Duke Global Value Chains Center. Her research involves using GVC analysis to identify economic, social, and environmental upgrading opportunities for countries and firms in a variety of industries, including textiles and apparel, electronics/digital/ICT, medical/ pharma, automotive, and several other manufacturing and technology-based sectors. She has used the framework to analyze issues ranging from employment generation to trade policy impacts for global organizations including the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Statistics Division, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; she worked with regional organizations including the Islamic Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as a number of national governments—the United States, South Korea (Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade), Costa Rica, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Bahrain. One of her primary interests is developing new research methods that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches to evaluate country and firm participation in GVCs. She started in this field through her research on the textile industry and received her B.S. in textile management and Ph.D. in textile technology management from North Carolina State University.