Esra is a PhD student in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. Her doctoral project seeks to develop an extensive research on a discursive approach to the global value chain concept and development narratives within trade governance. The provisional title of her project is ‘A research on the construction of global value chain discourse by international organisations’. Esra obtained her Bachelor's degree in economics from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science and completed her Master degree in Local and Regional Development at Newcastle University before beginning her doctoral study at the University of Essex.