Genevieve LeBaron named SFU Distinguished Professor
Re:Structure Lab Co-Principal Investigator Genevieve LeBaron was named a 2024 Distinguished SFU Professor. LeBaron is a Professor and the Director of SFU’s School of Public Policy. This recognition honours faculty who have demonstrated exceptional performance and distinguished accomplishments, with exemplary accomplishments relative to their career stage, a national or international reputation, pre-eminence in their field, and commitment to collegial leadership and engagement.
LeBaron’s award-winning research focuses on the business of forced labour, modern slavery, and human trafficking in global supply chains and the effectiveness of strategies to combat it. In her role with the Re:Structure Lab, LeBaron works alongside scholars at Stanford, University of Michigan, and Yale Universities to reimagine these business dynamics and how we can end forced labour on a global scale.
LeBaron was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Scientists, and Artists in 2020 and serves on the UK Parliament’s Modern Slavery and Supply Chain Advisory Group. With over 40 scholarly contributions and books with Polity, Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, LeBaron is internationally renowned as an expert on modern slavery, and the importance of her cutting-edge research is recognized by her receiving this honour at this stage of her career.
Re:Structure Lab celebrates this distinction in honour of LeBaron’s significant, meaningful and groundbreaking scholarly contributions to the business of forced labour, modern slavery, and human trafficking in global supply chains.
