Judith C. Stroehle is a PhD candidate in "Economic Sociology and Labour Studies" in her last year at the NASP graduate-school of the Università degli Studi di Milano in Italy. Her thesis and current research is on the effectiveness of private labour governance programs in the apparel and footwear industry and their complementarities and interdependencies with forms of public governance. In particular, she studies the institutional contextualities of compliance data (monitoring data) from cases such as the FLA (Fair Labor Association) and the ILO Better Work programme. Before starting the PhD, Judith went to Highschool in Australia and Germany, spent some time working in a social project in Paraguay and finally obtained a BA of Sociology at the University of Bamberg in Germany and a MA of International Political Economy and Labour Studies in Bamberg and at the Université Bishop in Québéc, Canada. Between the times at the University, Judith worked for two years at a private firm in Munich as International Relations Manager.