Regina M. Abrami is a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and a faculty associate of Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her area of expertise is comparative political economy, with special focus on China and Vietnam. Prior to her current appointment, she was an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit at Harvard Business School. Abrami’s research is broadly concerned with the creation of institutions of accountability and their impact on patterns of economic development and change. In 2002, Abrami earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was both a Reinhard Bendix and John L. Simpson Memorial Fellow. In addition, she has received support from the Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright. More recent honors include appointment as a HBS Hellman Faculty Fellow (2004-2006), awarded in recognition of distinguished research and course development.
Expertise :
– Corporate
social responsibility
– Economic development
– Globalization
– Government
and business
– Political economy
References :
Abrami, Regina in collaboration with Richard Doner "Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development." In Southeast Asia in Political Science : Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Kuhonta, Dan Slater and Tuong Vu (SUP, forthcoming)
Abrami, Regina M. and Nolwen Henaff. "The City and the Countryside : Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market." In Reaching for the Dream : Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam, edited by Melanie Beresford and Angie Tran. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Abrami, Regina M. "Just a Peasant ? Economy and Legacy in Vietnam." In Post-Socialist Peasant : Rural and Urban Constructions of Identity in Eastern Europe, East Asia and the former Soviet Union, edited by Pamela Leonard and Deema Kaneff, 94-116. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.