Angela Garcia Calvo

Dr. Angela Garcia Calvo is Assistant Professor in International Business and Strategy at the University of Reading (UK), with a visiting research affiliation at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Research Group Globalization, Work, and Production. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, Masters degrees from Harvard, Northwestern University, and Pontifical University Comillas, and a BA from Deusto University.

• PhD: London School of Economics
• Masters: Harvard, Northwestern University, Pontifical University Comillas
• BA: Deusto University

Her research examines how business and policy choices shape capitalist transformations, focusing on industrial upgrading, industrial policy, innovation, internet governance, and structural transformation's impact on work. Recent publications analyze electric vehicle transitions in South Korea and Spain, platform economy labor dynamics, and semiconductor policy challenges in the EU.

She has consulted for the OECD and governments of Germany, Spain, and the UK, and her work appears in journals like Industrial and Corporate Change and New Political Economy. At WZB, she contributes to studies on globalization's effects on production and labor systems.