Forum speakers (*according to plenaries and stakeholder groups - updated 11.11)
Plenaries Sergei Alexandrovich Ordzhonikidze
Vice-President, Council of the Civil Chamber of the Russian Federation
Chairperson of the 2016 UN Forum on Business & Human Rights
Luis Almagro
Secretary General
Organization of American States
Laura Caceres
Daughter of Berta Cáceres
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
Gillian Caldwell
CEO
Global Witness
Mark Cutifani
CEO
Anglo American
Kate Gilmore
Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR
Sara Hossain
Honorary Director
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
Albachir Macassar
National Director for Human Rights and Citizenship
Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, Mozambique
Amol Mehra
Director
International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)
Githu Muigai
Attorney General
Government of Kenya
Geert Muylle
Permanent Representative of Belgium
Vice President, UN Human Rights Council
Jeremy Oppenheim
Programme Director
Global Business & Sustainable Development Commission
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
UN High Commissioner for Human OHCHR Rights
John Ruggie
Berthold Beitz Professor, Human Rights and International Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School
Johann Schneider-Ammann
President
The Swiss Confederation
Christiana Tah
Counselor
Former Attorney General / Minister of Justice in Liberia
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Cristina Tébar Less
Head, Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) Unit
OECD
Mark Wilson
CEO
Aviva
Jasmine Whitbread
Non-Executive Director
BT Group & Standard Chartered Bank
Vanessa Zimmerman
Business and Human Rights Specialist
Former Legal Advisor to the UNSRSG on Business and Human Rights
Libby Annat
Ethical Trade and Sustainability Controller
Primark
Kristina Åreskog
Sustainability Coordinator
AxFood
Khalil Benchekroun
Purchasing Associate Director, MEA Region
Procter & Gamble
France Bourgouin
Head of Responsible Sourcing
Dong Energy
Charlie Bradshaw
CEO
Matrix APA
Adeline Braescu-Kerlan
Diversity Project Manager
Sodexo
Adam Brett
CEO
Tropical Wholefoods
Dan Bross
Executive Director
Microsoft Technology and Human Rights Center
Lary Brown
Vice President - Head of Global Social and Environmental Sustainability
Esprit
Lord John Browne
Executive Chairman
L1 Energy
Jay Celorie
Global Program Manager
HP Inc.
Jaume Corbella
Community relations and human rights advisor
Repsol
Nick Cotts
Group Executive - Sustainability and External Relations
Newmont Mining Corporation
Rachel Cowburn-Walden
Global Director - Human Rights Stewardship
Unilever
Heloisa Covolan
Social Responsibility Coordinator; & Vice President
Itaipu Binacional; & UN Global Compact Brazil Network
Jo Gacheru
Security and Human Rights Advisor
Shell
Giulia Genuardi
Head of Sustainability Planning and Performance Management
Enel Group
Steve Heron
Reward Consultant
Unilever
Business
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Simon Henzell-Thomas
Sustainability Policy Manager & Head of Stakeholder Engagement
Inter IKEA Group
Patrik Hiselius
Senior Advisor
Telia Company
Clare Iery
Associate Director, Ethics & Compliance Office
Procter & Gamble
Marcel Jacobs
Director of Supplier Sustainability
Philips
Mónica Jiménez González
Secretaria General
Ecopetrol S.A.
Nicole Karlebach
Senior Legal Counsel, Business & Human Rights
Yahoo Inc.
Richard Karmel
Managing Partner
Mazars LLP
Dickson Kimathi
Field Technical / Agronomy Manager
Flamingo Horticulture
Anna Krutikov
Head of Sustainable Development
Glencore
Tom Mackall
Vice President Global Labor Relations
Sodexo
Kate Mathias
Group Development Consultant
Illovo Sugar Limited
Helen McTaggart
Ethical Trading Manager (Foods)
Marks & Spencer Plc
Aslam Mehdi
CEO
Bulleh Shah, Pakistan
Anupama Mohan
Sustainability Advisor
Statoil
Louise Nicholls
Head of Responsible Sourcing Packaging & Plan A
Marks & Spencer Plc
Yves Nissim
VP, Head of Transformation & Operation in CSR
France Telecom - Orange
Ian Peters
Chief Executive
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors
Ron Popper
Former Head of Corporate Responsibility
ABB
Violaine Du Pontavice
Executive Director
EY Société d'avocats
Paula Pyers
Senior Director, Supplier Responsibility
Apple Inc
Lea Rankinen
Senior Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility
S Group
Jonathan Refoy
Director of European Corporate Affairs
CH2M HILL
Nili Safavi
Human Rights Specialist
BP
Jochanan Senf
EU Director
Ben & Jerry’s
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Rodrigo Serrat
Director of Corporate Social Responsibility
Aeromexico
Bernard Shen
Assistant General Counsel
Microsoft
Katherine Stewart
Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability Director
Primark
Helen Simpson
Global Voluntary Principles Advisor for Security and Human Rights
BP
Andrew Slight
Director, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs
PepsiCo
Matthias Stausberg
Group Advocacy Director
Virgin Management Limited
Minako Suzuki
Corporate Citizenship Office
Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
Mathilde Tabary
Director, Social Development & Diversity
Carrefour
Noel Tagoe
Executive Vice President Academics
CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
Subathra Vaidhiyanathan
Senior CSR Manager
New Look
Brent Wilton
Director of Global Workplace Rights
The Coca-Cola Company
Yann Wyss
Human Rights Specialist
Nestlé
Business / Employers’ / Industry Associations Shubha Chandra
Manager, Social Sustainability, Human Rights & Legal
UN Global Compact
Diana Chavez
Director
UN Global Compact Regional Centre for Latin America
Ben Davies
Manager Materials Stewardship
International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
Christian Ewert
Director General
Foreign Trade Association (FTA)
Hiroshi Ishida
Executive Director
Caux Round Table Japan
Idar Kreutzer
CEO
Finance Norway
Linda Kromjong
Secretary-General
The International Organisation of Employers (IOE)
Rob Lederer
Executive Director
Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC)
Xiaohui Liang
Chief Researcher
Office for Social Responsibility at China National Textile & Apparel Council
Sun Lihui
Director of Liaison Department
China Chamber of Commerce of Metals Minerals and Chemicals Importers and Exporters (CCCMC)
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Roger McElrath
Associate Director
BSR
Mthunzi Mdwaba
Regional Vice-President (Africa); & CEO
The International Organisation of Employers (IOE); & Tzoro IBC
Bob Mitchell
Vice-President, Environmental and Social responsibility
Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC)
Peter Nestor
Associate Director, Human Rights
BSR
Viviane Schiavi
Senior Policy Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Anti-corruption
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Catie Shavin
Director
Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI)
Roberto Suarez
Deputy Secretary-General
Thomas Thomas
CEO
International Organization of Employers (IOE) ASEAN CSR Network
Matthias Thorns
Senior Adviser
The International Organisation of Employers (IOE)
Luke Wilde
CEO
twentyfifty ltd
Civil society, indigenous peoples’ representatives & affected stakeholders Renata Albuquerque
Director of Communications
Comissão Pastoral da Terra (Brazil)
Karamat Ali
Executive Director
Pakistan Institute for Labour Education and Research (PILER)
Sanyu Awori
Programme Officer
International Women's Rights Action Watch, Asia Pacific
Dalit Baum
Director, Economic Activism & Co-Founder
American Friends Service Committee & Who Profits from the Occupation
Judy Beals
Director
Oxfam America
Sara Blackwell
Legal and Policy Coordinator
International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)
David Bledsoe
Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships
Landesa
Phil Bloomer
Executive Director
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Caio Borges
Attorney in the Business and Human Rights Project
Conectas Human Rights
Ryan Brightwell
Researcher & Editor
BankTrack
Sarah Brooks
Asia Programme Manager and Advocate
International Service for Human Rights
Joan Carling
Secretary General
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
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Virginia Carcedo
General Manager Inserta Empleo
Fundacion ONCE
Aruna Chandrasekhar
Researcher
Independent (India)
Björn Claeson
Director
Electronics Watch
Michael Clements
Head of Environmental Rights Programme
Lawyers for Human Rights (South Africa)
Rachel Davis
Managing Director
Shift
Caroline Dommen
Consultant, Human Rights and Economics
Independent
Heather Eisenlord
Director for Economic Justice and Accountability
International Senior Lawyers Project
Marya Farah
Legal Research and Advocacy Officer
Al-Haq
Gustavo Ferroni
Policy and Advocacy Advisor
Oxfam Brazil
Livia Firth
Founder
Eco-Age
Bennett Freeman
Senior Advisor & Steering Committee member
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) & Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB)
Hadi Ghaemi
Executive Director
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
Fiona Gooch
Senior Policy Adviser
Traidcraft
Erik Hagen
Board Member
Western Sahara Resource Watch
Fernanda Hopenhaym
Deputy Director
PODER Mexico
Eniko Horvath
Senior Researcher
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Richard Howitt
CEO
International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
Carolina Hoyl
Expert, Corporate Social Responsibility
Centro Vincular - PUCV
Michael Ineichen
Programme Manager and Human Rights Council Advocacy Director
International Service for Human Rights
Omar Jeronimo
Coordinator
Nuevo Dia Ch'orti Indigenous Association (Guatemala)
Chris Jochnick
CEO & Chair of Board
Landesa & Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Leslie Johnston
Executive Director
C&A Foundation
Seema Joshi
Head of Business and Human Rights
Amnesty International
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Mary Kambo
Labour rights adviser, Economic and Social Justice (ESJ) Programme
Kenya Human Rights Commission
Joseph Ole Kaunga
Director
IMPACT, Kenya
Harpreet Kaur
Senior South Asia Researcher & Representative
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Matti Kohonen
Principal Adviser (Private Sector)
Christian Aid
Varvara Korkina
Indigenous representative
The Arctic
Aung Kyaw Soe
Extractives Programme Manager
Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business
Harriet Lamb
CEO
International Alert
Jannie Lasimbang
Program Coordinator
Indigenous Peoples Network of Malaysia (JOAS), Malaysia
Ben Leather
Campaigner, Land and Environmental Rights Defenders
Global Witness
Anselmo Lee
Executive Director
Korea Human Rights Foundation
Shauna Leven
Director of Anti-Corruption Campaigns
Global Witness
Shawn MacDonald
CEO
Verité
Peter McAllister
Executive Director
Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
Andreas Missbach
Head of Commodities, Trade and Finance
Public Eye
Kilian Moote
KnowTheChain Project Director
Humanity United
Manuel F. Montes
Senior Advisor, Finance and Development, & Member
South Centre; & Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)
John Morrison
Chief Executive
Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
Lou Munden
Founder
TMP Systems
Reinford Mwangonde
Executive Directo
Citizens For Justice-(CFJ) Friends of the Earth, Malawi
Anirudha Nagar
South Asia Director
Accountability Counsel
Arvind Narrain
Geneva Director
ARC International
Joris Oldenziel
Head of Public Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement
Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh
Gerald Pachoud
Managing Partner
Pluto Advisory
Geneviève Paul
Program Officer
Above Ground, Canada
Santiago Porto
Associate Consultant
PeaceNexus
Purarama Pradhan
Sarah Saadoun
Posco Pratirodh Sagram Samiti (PPSS) Business and Human Rights
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Human Rights Watch
Prabindra Shakya
Human Rights Programme Coordinator
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
Klara Skrivankova
UK and Europe Programme Manager
Anti-Slavery International
Irit Tamir
Advocacy Manager, Private Sector Department
Oxfam America
Salil Tripathi
Senior Advisor of Global Issues
Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
Simon Usher
Chief Executive
Bonsucro
Elena Villafuete
Advocacy - Transnational Justice
ProDESC
Hector Jaime Vinasco
Coordinator of Mining Issues
Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta, Colombia
Egbert Wesselink
Senior Advisor
PAX
Joseph Wilde-Ramsing
Senior Researcher & Coordinator
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) & OECD Watch network
Rachel Wilshaw
Ethical Trade Manager Board Member
Oxfam GB Ethical Trading Initiative
Sarah Zoen
Senior Policy Advisor, Private Sector Department
Oxfam America
Pre-recorded video interviews
Affected community members
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Porgera, Papua New Guinea; North Mara mine, Tanzania; Bodo community, Nigeria
Financial Institutions / Organisations Nico Ahn
Project Manager, Environmental, Social & Governance Office
Allianz
Annie Bersagel
Advisor on Responsible Investments
KLP (Norwegian life insurance company & pension fund)
Christine Chow
Associate Director
Hermes Investment Management
Simon Connell
Director of Sustainability
Standard Chartered Bank
Sonia Consiglio Favaretto
Managing Director - Sustainability BM&F BOVESPA (Stock Exchange and Communications in Brazil)
Maria Anne van Dijk
Head of ESE Policy and Risk
ABN AMRO
Paul Druckman
Chairman
Clear Insurance
Mark Eckstein
Director of Environmental and Social Responsibility
CDC, UK
Daniëlle Essink
Senior engagement specialist
Robeco
Eliza Eubank
Director of Environmental and Social Risk Management
Citi
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Giulia Guidi
Executive Director, Global Environmental & Social Risk Management
J.P. Morgan
Claire Ighodaro
Board member and Audit Committee Chair
Lloyd’s of London and Flood Re
Christian Leitz
Head of Corporate Responsibility Management
UBS
Maria Lisiakova
Risk Manager, Group Risk Management
Swiss Re
Raul Manjarin
Business Development Manager
RepRisk
Will Martindale
Head of Policy
UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI)
Flavia Micilotta
Executive Director
EUROSIF (European Sustainable Investment Forum)
Pia Rudolfsson Goyer
Senior Advisor at the Council on Ethics
Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global
Charlotte Scheltus
Advisor, Sustainability & Human Rights
ASN Bank
David Schilling
Director, Global Corporate Accountability
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR)
David Simpson
Project Complaint Mechanism Office
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Jaideep Singh Panwar
Manager, Sustainability & Governance Asia Pacific
APG Asset Management Asia
Mercedes Sotoca
Head of Environmental and Social ING Risk
Jelena Stamenkova van Rumpt
Responsible Investment Advisor
PGGM Investments
Chet Tchozewski
Founder and CEO
RTC Impact Fund and the Global Greengrants Fund
Helena Vines Fiestas
Head of Sustainability Research
BNP Paribas Investment Partners
Steve Waygood
Chief Responsible Investment Officer
Aviva Investors
Peter Webster
CEO
EIRIS Foundation
Government / Govt. affiliated Kees van Baar
Human Rights Ambassador
The Government of the Netherlands
Jerome Bellion-Jourdan,
Policy Officer, HRDD session
EU Delegation in Geneva
Bhaskar Chatterjee
Director General & CEO
Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs
Sarah Fox
Special Representative for International Labor Affairs
U.S. Department of State
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Rémy Friedmann
Senior Advisor - Desk Human Security and Business
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Kevin Funk
Senior Advisor
U.S. General Services Administration
Paula Gaviria Betancur
Presidential High Commissioner on Human Rights
Government of Colombia
Pauline Gothberg
National Coordinator
Swedish County Councils and Regions
Susanne Hoffmann
Director-General, European and International Employment and Social Policies (ESF)
German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Saut P. Hutagalung
Adviser to the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries
Republic of Indonesia
Dame Carol Kidu
Co-Convenor & Former member of Parliament
Porgera Remediation Framework, Papua New Guinea
Sandra Lendenmann
Head of Human Rights Policy Office
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Wilma B. Liebman
Chair of the Dunlop Commission
Ex-Chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Stephen Lowe
Team Leader, Human Rights & Democracy Department
UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Rosemary McCarney
Ambassador
Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva
Fabrizio Petri
President of the Italian Interministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU)
Government of Italy
Jason Pielemeier
Special Advisor, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor
U.S. Department of State
Pedro Posada
Director of Indigenous, Roma and Minority Affairs
Ministry of the Interior, Colombia
Rachel Phillips Rigby
Deputy Chief, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor & Human Trafficking
U.S. Department of Labor
Margaret Purdasy
Legal Counsellor
UK mission to the UN in Geneva
Geneviève van Rossum
Ambassador of Bioethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Government of France
Jens Schlyter
Special Advisor, Sustainable Business
Ministry of Enterprise & Innovation, Government of Sweden
Katherine Schwenn
Purchasing Supervisor
City of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Alexandra van Selm
Program Director, International Responsible Business Conduct
Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER)
Ricardo Sepúlveda Iguiniz
Director General of Public Human Rights Policy, Ministry of Interior
Government of Mexico
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José Henrique Vieira Martins
General Coordinator for Trade Policy, Secretariat for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance
Government of Brazil
Kamil Zabielski
Head of Sustainability Team
Norwegian Export Credit Agency, GIEK/Export Credit Norway
International and Regional Organisations Butch Bacani
Programme Leader, UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
UNEP FI
Albert Barume
Member
UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Solomon Dersso,
Commissioner and chair of the Working Group on Extractive Industries in Africa
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Kathryn Dovey
Director of National Contact Point OECD Coordination
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro
UN Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
Deborah Greenfield
Deputy Director-General for Policy
ILO
Horacio Guido
Chief of Application of Standards, International Labour Standards Department Senior Labour Relations Specialist
ILO
Trinidad Inostroza
President
Inter-American Network for Government Procurement; Chile Compra
Anthony Miller
Coordinator of Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
UNCTAD
Caroline Nicholas
Senior Legal Officer, International UNCITRAL Trade Law Division
Frances Raday
Working Group member
UN Working Group on Discrimination against women in law and in practice
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
UN Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Manuela Tomei
Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department
ILO
Esteban Tromel
Senior Disability Specialist
ILO Global Business and Disability Network
Elisabeth Tuerk
Chief, Section on International Investment Agreements
UNCTAD
Vic Van Vuuren
Director, Enterprises Department
ILO
Lene Wendland
Advisor on Business & Human Rights
OHCHR
Susan Hayter
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ILO
Lawyers Nicole Bigby
Partner & Director of Risk
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Robin Brooks
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Heikki Cantell
Secretary General & General Counsel
Nordic Investment Bank
Christie Constantine
Global Director of Corporate Social Responsibility
Baker & McKenzie
Ricardo Cortes-Monroy
Chief Legal Officer and Group General Counsel
Nestlé
Daniel D'Ambrosio
Associate, International Business & Human Rights
DLA Piper
Jonathan Exten-Wright
Partner
DLA Piper
Malin Helgesen
Legal Counsel
Statoil ASA
Arnaud Martin
Partner, Attorney and Tax Expert
ABR Attorneys at Law LLC, Switzerland
Robert McCorquodale
Director
British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
Richard Meeran
Partner
Leigh Day
Adebola Ogunlade
Legal Counsel in Human Rights, Compliance and Social Responsibility
Total
Moira Oliver
Head of Policy & Chief Counsel, Human/Digital Rights
British Telecommunications plc
Martijn Scheltema
Partner
Pels Rijcken
Maarten Scholten
Senior Vice-President, General Counsel
Total
Jessica Simor
QC
Matrix Chambers and Lawyers Circle
Frederike Stikkelbroeck
Senior Legal Counsel
AkzoNobel
Annelies Verlinden
Partner
DLA Piper
Geneva Correspondent
BBC
Media Imogen Foulkes
National Human Rights Institutions Justice H.L. Dattu
Chairperson
National Human Rights Commission of India
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Lee Sung-ho
Chairperson
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea
Christopher Schuller
Legal Adviser on Business and Human Rights
German Institute for Human Rights
Stella Wangechi
Human Rights Lawyer
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Grant Belchamber
Workers’ Spokesperson
SMEs and Employment Committee & ILC SME discussions
Raquel González
Director, Geneva Office
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Jenny Holdcroft
Assistant General Secretary
IndustriALL Global Union
Dwight Justice
Trade Unionist
Independent
Baldemar Velásquez
President and Co-Founder
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Jeffrey Vogt
Director
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Trade Union
Universities / Schools / Academia Dorothee Baumann-Pauly
Research Director
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Danny Bradlow
SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations
University of Pretoria
Leïla Choukroune
Director of the Centre for Social CSH is a French National Research Sciences and Humanities (CSH) in Centre (CNRS) Unit on South Asia New Delhi, India
Auret van Heerden
Senior Advisor
NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Christine Kaufmann
Professor of international, constitutional & administrative law
University of Zurich
Sarah Knuckey
Lieff Cabraser Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
Sheldon Leader
Director, Essex Business & Human Rights Project
University of Essex
René Lefeber
Professor of International Environmental Law
University of Amsterdam (formerly Chair, Council of Europe CDDH-CORP)
Faris Natour
Director, Human Rights and Business Initiative
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Justine Nolan
Associate Professor & Deputy Director
University of NSW & Australian Human Rights Centre
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Wandisa Phama
Human rights lawyer at the Centre Wits University for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)
Alice Priddy
Researcher
Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights
Geo Quinot
Director, African Public Procurement Research Group
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Andrea Shemberg
Lead
LSE Investment & Human Rights Project
Robert Stumberg
Director
Harrison Institute for Public Law
Florian Wettstein
Professor
University of St. Gallen
UN Working Group on Business & Human Rights Michael K. Addo
UN Working Group member
Ghana, since 2011
Surya Deva
UN Working Group member
India, since 2016
Dante Pesce
UN Working Group member
Chile, since 2015
Anita Ramasastry
UN Working Group member
USA, since 2016
Pavel Sulyandziga
UN Working Group member
Russian Federation, since 2011
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