Dr. Shahidur Rahman, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University recently co-authored and presented a paper on "Governing Labour Standards in Garment Global Production Networks" along with Stephen Frenkel and Mahmudur Rahman at a conference in Singapore. The Conference on Global Production (CGP) was held at the National University of Singapore, on 6 - 8 December 2017. This conference brings together the research community studying fragmented global production systems and is both a global and interdisciplinary conference. Conference themes covered inter alia the governance of global production networks, the role of transnational corporations in global trade, varieties of national organization and institutions, regulation of global production networks, and policy applications and implications of global production networks.