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Forum “plenary & high-level” speakers (*in alphabetical order – updated 13.11)

Aishah Bidin

Aishah is Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia and

Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law at the National University of

Malaysia. She is also a member of the Companies Commission of Malaysia

and an Executive Council Member of International Centre for Law and Legal

Studies.

Adriano Campolina

Adriano is Chief Executive of ActionAid International and has been working

on the civil society leading human rights based development programmes

and campaigns for the past 22 years. He is an agronomist with masters on

agriculture, development and society.

Espen Barth Eide

Espen is Managing Director at the World Economic Forum and an Under-

Secretary General of the UN and the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on

Cyprus, chairing negotiations aimed at reunifying the country. He is also a

former Foreign Minister and Defence Minister of Norway.

Arancha González

Arancha is Executive Director of the International Trade Centre. Before that,

she served as Chief of Staff to the World Trade Organization Director-

General Pascal Lamy from 2005 to 2013 where she helped launch the

WTO’s Aid for Trade initiative. She began her career in the private sector

advising companies on trade, competition and state-aid.

Mark Hodge

Mark is Executive Director of the Global Business Initiative on Human

Rights, which advances respect for human rights in a business context

through cross-industry peer learning and informing the international policy

agenda. GBI is led by a core group of 19 global corporations from different

industries.

Lise Kingo

Lise was appointed Executive Director of the UN Global Compact in

September. Prior to this, she was Chief of Staff, Executive Vice-President

and member of the Executive Management at Novo Nordisk A/S for 12

years. Lise also served at NovoZymes A/S for 12 years.

Erol Kiresepi

Erol is Chairman and CEO of Santa Farma Pharmaceuticals, which is based in

Turkey and has served the healthcare industry since 1944. He is President of

Pharmaceutical Sector Committee of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry and

Vice President of the Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations

Linda Kromjong

Linda is Secretary-General of the International Organisation of Employers

with overall responsibility for the management of the IOE Secretariat in its

advocacy on behalf of the global employer and business community. Prior

to this, Linda was Vice-President, Labor Relations International & Human

Rights for Deutsche Post DHL.

Lee Sung-ho

Sung-ho is Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

He was a professional judge for 30 years serving in the following positions:

Judge at the Seoul High Court, Research Judge at the Supreme Court, Chief

at Cheonan Branch of Daejeon District Court, and First Chief Judge at the

Seoul High Court and the Patent Court of Korea.

Shauna Leven

Shauna is Director of Anti-Corruption Campaigns at Global Witness. Prior to

this, she was Executive Director of the René Cassin Foundation and a Legal

Advisor to the Liberian Government and she worked in litigation at

McGuireWoods LLP in New York. Shauna holds a Juris Doctor from Emory

University School of Law in Atlanta.

Rafael Marques de Morais

Rafael is an Angolan investigative journalist and the winner of the 2015

Index on Censorship award. In 2009, he founded the watchdog website

“Maka,” dedicated to exposing corruption and human rights abuses in his

country. He is the author of the 2011 book “Blood Diamonds: Corruption

and Torture in Angola.”

Dan McDougall

Dan is an award-winning Foreign Correspondent and Creative Director of

Miran, which specialises in content creation for some of the world’s biggest

firms. He is an investigative journalist and has reported from over 110

countries and conflict zones. Dan also lectures on Sustainability at

Cambridge University.

Mthunzi Mdwaba

Mthunzi is Founder and CEO of TZoro IBC, an investment, commodity

trading and consulting company based in South Africa. He is chair of the CSR

and the Business Human Rights Policy Working Group of the International

Organisation of Employers. He is also an ILO governing body member and a

B20 (Business 20) representative for South Africa.

Michael Meehan

Michael is Chief Executive of Global Reporting Initiative, which helps

businesses, governments and others to understand and communicate the

impact of business on critical sustainability issues such as climate change,

human rights, and corruption etc. Michael was voted one of the "Top CEOs

to Follow" by BusinessWeek magazine.

Mark Nordstrom

Mark is Senior Counsel for Labor and Employment Law at General Electric

Co. He is responsible for the legal aspects of GE’s human resource policies

and practices and human rights practices. Mark is Chairman of the Pro

Bono Partnership, on the Board of the American Employment Law Council,

and is a member of the UN Global Compact Human Rights Working Group.

Katie Redford

Katie is the Co-Founder and Director of EarthRights International, a non-

profit group of lawyers, activists and teachers with expertise in human

rights and environmental advocacy. She is a human rights lawyer with

expertise in environmental justice and corporate accountability and a

member of the US Supreme Court Bar and the Massachusetts Bar.

Caroline Rees

Caroline is President of Shift, a leading center of expertise on the UN

Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. From 2007 to 2011 she

worked as a lead advisor to the former Special Representative of the UN

Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie.

Caroline previously spent 14 years at the UK Foreign Office.

Tone Skogen

Tone is State Secretary at Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She

previously worked at the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, including as

acting Director General from 2013. Tone has also worked in the Ministry of

Trade and Industry and as an energy advisor at the Norwegian Mission to

the EU in Brussels.

Debbie Stothard

Debbie is Secretary-General of FIDH (International Federation for Human

Rights). She is an active promoter of human rights in Burma and the Asean

region through her additional work as Coordinator and Founder at Altsean-

Burma (Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma).

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Victoria is UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She

is an indigenous leader from the Kankanaey Igorot people of the Cordillera

Region in the Philippines. She has worked as a social development

consultant, an indigenous activist, a civic leader, a human rights expert and

an advocate of women's rights in the Philippines.

Steve Waygood

Steve is Chief Responsible Investment Officer of Aviva Investors. His team is

responsible for integrating ESG issues across all asset classes and regions of

the c£250bn of assets under management. Steve founded the Sustainable

Stock Exchange initiative as well as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Coalition. He helped write the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

Chair of the 2015 Forum

Diana Chávez

Diana is Executive Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Support

Center of the UN Global Compact. She has worked on foreign investment for

the Mexican government and for the UN Development Program. Diana was

named one of the 100 most influential people in Latin America by FIIAPP. She

is a board member of the Canadian Government’s CSR Advisory Committee

and the Ibero-American Secretariat Global Forum on Sustainability.

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Margaret Jungk (Chair)

Margaret is the current chair of the UN Working Group on Business and

Human Rights. She has Ph.D. in political science, specializing in international

human rights law (University of Cambridge) and was the founder and director

of the Human Rights and Business Department at the Danish Institute for

Human Rights.

Michael Addo

Michael is Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter (UK) where he

researches and teaches international law, human rights and human rights &

business policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is a

lawyer by training and an advocate at the Ghana Bar.

Dante Pesce

Dante joined the Working Group in 2015. He is the founder and Executive

Director of the VINCULAR Center for Social Responsibility and Sustainable

Development at the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile. The Centre

works across Latin America in outreach, capacity building and advisory

services related to sustainability and responsible business practices.

Puvan Selvanathan

Puvan is Head of the International Trade Centre office to the UN. Before that

he was a Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact and led the creation of its

Food & Agriculture Business Principles. He is also a member of the

Stakeholder Council of the ISEAL Alliance, the global association for

sustainability standards.

Pavel Sulyandziga

Pavel is a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and

advisor to the president of RAIPON (“Russian Association of Indigenous

Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East”). From 2005 to 2010 he was a

member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He is a member

of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Forum speakers in parallel sessions (both UN and external-led)

NB: The list, in alphabetical order, will be updated on an ongoing basis as information about confirmed speakers is received.

Federico Addiechi Head of Sustainability Fédération Internationale de Football

Association (FIFA)

Omoyemi Akerele Founder Style House Files & Lagos Fashion Design Week

Kalpona Akter Executive Director Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity

Arnold Alamon Professor Mindanao Interfaith Institute on Lumad Studies; Philippines

José Alcorta Technical Group Manager in the Energy, Health, Data Applications, Services and Management department

ISO

An Nan Field representative The Cambodian Arbitration Council; Workers’ Rights Consortium

Beate Andrees Chief, ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch

ILO

Johan H. Andresen Chair, Council on Ethics Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global

Lorena Terrezas Arnez

Red Pazinde, Bolivia

Greg Asbed Co-Founder Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Roichatul Aswidah Commissioner Indonesian National Human Rights Commission

Bo Bo Aung Myanmar Campaigns Coordinator EarthRights International

Than Aung Secretary Thilawa SEZ Management Committee

Samantha Balaton-Chrimes

Deakin Uni

Tulika Bansal Adviser, Human Rights and Development Danish Institute for Human Rights

Gina Barbieri Principal Ombudsman Compliance Advisor Ombudsman

Inmaculada Barcia Consultant

Association for Women's Rights In Development (AWID)

Dost Bardouille-Crema

Director CDA Collaborative Learning Projects

Joanne Bauer Professor and senior researcher Columbia University

Harriet Berg Minister-Counsellor Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations

Elena Berger Child Rights Program Manager Bank Information Center

Lars-Åke Bergqvist Sustainable Business Expert H&M

Wendy Betts Director eyeWitness app, International Bar Association

Hanh Tran Bich General Director of Berjaya - Ho Tay Joint Venture

ActionAid International Vietnam

Farnam Bidgoli Manager Sustainalytics

Aishah Bidin Commissioner Malaysia NHRI

Sara Blackwell Legal & Policy Coordinator, Frameworks Programs

International Corporate Accountability Roundtable

David Bledsoe Senior Director, Corporate Partnerships Landesa

Phil Bloomer Executive Director Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Elena Bombis Manager, Supply Chain Sustainability UN Global Compact

Luisa Book Sustainability Business Expert - Human Rights

H&M

Caio Borges Lawyer, Business and Human Rights Program

Conectas

Paul Bowden Partner Freshfields Bruckaus Deringer LLP

Vicky Bowman Director Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business

Tania Braga Committee Head of Sustainability, Accessibility and Legacy

Rio 2016 Olympic Committee

Karen Bravo Professor of Law Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Ryan Brightwell Researcher and Editor BankTrack

Robin Brooks Corporate Finance Lawyer Norton Rose Fulbright

Dan Bross Alfred Brownell

Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship and Executive Director of the Microsoft Technology and Human Rights Center President and Founder

Microsoft Association of Environmental Lawyers of Liberia

Alan Bryden Assistant Director and Head of Public-Private Partnerships Division

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Karin Buhmann Associate Professor Copenhagen Business School & Member of Danish National Contact Point

Isabella Bunn Chair, Advisory Council American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights

Sharan Burrow Secretary General International Trade Union Confederation

Carlos Busquets Director of Public Policy and Stakeholder Engagement

The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition

Segundo Tarquino Cajamarca Mariles

Community lawyer and human rights defender

Independent

Doug Cassel Notre Dame Presidential Fellow, Professor of Law

University of Notre Dame

Larry Catá Backer Professor of Law and International Affairs

Pennsylvania State University Penn State Law

Laura Chapman Rubbo

Director, International Labor Standards The Walt Disney Company

Jernej Letnar Černič Lecturer School for European and Government Studies, European Faculty of Law

Flaviana Charles LHRC

Frédéric Chenais Political Advisor Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Aurelio Chino Dahua Apu (President) FEDIQUEP Indigenous organization

Anuarite Ketu Chikwanine

Project Manager Dynamique Femme et Mines, DRC

Christine Chow Associate Director - Engagement Hermes Equity Ownership Services

Simone Cipriani Head & Founder, Ethical Fashion Initiative

International Trade Centre

Roper Cleland Senior Programme Officer International Alert

Josie Cohen Senior Land Campaigner Global Witness

Ben Cokelet Executive Director Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER)

Michael Congiu Littler

Sandra Cossart Head of Globalisation and Human Rights program

Sherpa

Linsi Crain Policy, Government & Public Affairs Senior Advisor

Chevron

Joshua Curtis Free University Berlin

Nighat Dad Director Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan

Alberto Pedro D’Alotto

Ambassador Argentina

Rachel Davis Managing Director Shift

Hubert de Bremond d’Ars

Head of Protection, Maritime Security and VPSHR Coordinator

Total S.A

Marine de Carné CSR Ambassador Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

Damiano de Felice Deputy Director Strategy Access to Medicine Foundation

Francesca de Meillac Social Performance and Human Rights Specialist

BG Group

Olivier De Schutter Former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Surya Deva Associate Professor City University of Hong Kong

Mutuso Dhliwayo Executive Director Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association

Kate Donald Director, Human Rights in Sustainable Development Program

Center for Economic and Social Rights

Kathryn Dovey Manager - NCP Coordination OECD

Zachary Douglas, QC Barrister and Professor of International Law

Matrix Chambers, Graduate Institute Geneva

Eang Vuthy Executive Director Equitable Cambodia

Jane Ellis Director, Legal Projects Team International Bar Association

Deborah Enix-Ross Chair, Business and Human Rights Project

American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights

Jacqueline Etongue Mayer

Secretary General Cameroon NHRI

Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces

Ambassador Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva

Jessica Evans Senior Researcher and Advocate for International Financial Institutions

Human Rights Watch

Tomaso Falchetta Legal Officer Privacy International

Bjorn Fasterling Professor of Law EDHEC Business School

Tricia Feeney Executive Director RAID, UK

Teresa Fogelberg Deputy Chief Executive Global Reporting Initiative

Michel Forst Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders

UN

Sarah Fox Special Representative for International Labor Affairs

United States Government

Bennett Freeman Board Secretary Global Network Initiative

Brian Ganson Professor Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement

Egidio Germanetti Communications Officer IFC, World Bank Group

Monique Gieskes Director Brand Protection & Corporate Social Investment

Vlisco Group

Camilla Goldbeck-Lowe

Corporate Responsibility Expert Ericsson AB

Daira Gómez Executive Director CEGESTI

Natalia Gonchar Head of Social Performance Sakhalin Energy

Alejandro Gonzales Human Rights Specialist PODER

Leilah Gordon-Bates Latin American Mining Monitoring Program, UK

Stéphane Graber Executive Director Swiss Trading and Shipping Association

Emily Greenspan Senior Policy Advisor Oxfam America

Enrique Guadarrama López

Second Commissioner CNDH

Carlos Gualtero Consejo Regional Indigena del Tolima, Columbia

Françoise Guichard Vice-president Ethics & Compliance; and President

Engie; EDH - Entreprises pour les droits de l’homme

John Gummer (Lord Deben)

Chairman Sancroft International

Andy Hall International Affairs Advisor Migrant Worker Rights Network (MWRN)

Dieter Haller Director General, Economic Affairs and Sustainable Development

Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ragnihild Handagard Business and human rights consultant OHCHR

Susan Hayter Senior Specialist - Labour Relations ILO

Malin Helgesen Leading Counsel, Legal Statoil

Richard Hermer, QC Barrister Matrix Chambers

Lucía Hernández Project Coordinator,Public-Private Partnerships Division

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Marta Hirsch-Ziembinska

Head of Complaints and Inquiries European Union Ombudsman

Mark Hodge Executive Director Global Business Initiative on Human Rights

Eniko Horvath Researcher Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Richard Howitt MEP and CSR European Parliament Rapporteur

European Union

Philip Hunter Program Director Verité

Hiroshi Ishida Executive Director Caux Round Table - Japan

Tomislav Ivančić Team leader, CSR European Commission

Nicola Jaegers Professor Netherlands Institute for Human Rights

Philip Jennings Secretary General UNI Global Union

Mary Johnson Founder Fair Play Human Rights Consulting

Seema Joshi Head of Business and Human Rights Amnesty International

Dwight Justice Labor Representative International Trade Union Confederation

Richard Karmel Partner and Global Head of Human Rights

Mazars

Anuarite Ketu Chikwanine

Project Manager Dynamique Femme et Mines, DRC

Christine Kaufmann Professor University of Zurich - Centre for Human Rights Studies

Sindiso Khumalo Founder and fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo

Raoul Kitungano Director of the NGOs and Networks Justice for All, DRC

Jan Klawitter Government Relations Manager Anglo-American

Joost Kooijmans Senior Advisor on Child Labor UNICEF

Tatiana Krylova Head of Enterprise Branch UNCTAD

Barbara Küppers Head Department Child Rights Terre des Hommes

Claire Larner Senior Program Manager International Council on Mining Metals (ICMM)

Michelle Lau Manager, Human Rights & Social Sustainability

UN Global Compact

Mauricio Lazala Deputy Director Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Sheldon Leader Professor Essex Business and Human Rights Project

Robert Lederer Executive Director Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition

Volker Lehmann Senior Policy Analyst

Friedrich Ebert Stifung

Alejandra Leon Amaya

Representative Colombian Ministry of Labor

Allan Lerberg Jørgensen

Head of Human Rights and Development Danish Institute for Human Rights

Liang Xiaohui Chief Researcher and Deputy Director, Office for Social Responsibility,

China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC)

Rae Lindsay Partner Clifford Chance

Conor Linehan Partner; Vice-Chair, IBA President’s Task Force on Climate Justice and Human Rights, and Co-Chair, IBA Working Group on Adaptation

William Fry; International Bar Association

Ken Chee Chien Loo Secretary General The Garment Manufacturer’s Association, Cambodia

Josua Loots Project Manager & Researcher Centre for Human Rights, UP

Stephen Lowe Head of Business and Human Rights & Freedom of Expression

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Pablo Lumerman Chair Global Community of Practice of Dialogue Facilitators

Rebecca MacKinnon Director Ranking Digital Rights

Marcela Manubens Global Vice President for Social Impact Unilever

Ed Marcum Humaity United

Dahlberg Markstedt Malin

Manager, Child Rights & Business Department

Save the Children Sweden

Roger Martella Partner; Vice Chair of the IBA President’s Task Force on Climate Justice and Human Rights, and Vice Chair of the IBA’s Working Group on a Model Statute for Climate Change Remedies

Sidley Austen LLP; International Bar Association

Jena Martin Professor of Law University of West Virginia College of Law

Minerva Martínez Garza

President CEDHNL, Mexico

Robert McCorquodale Professor British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Katherine McDonnell Legal Fellow EarthRights International

Amol Mehra Director International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

Larry Memmott Economic Bureau United States State Department

Diana Mendieta Durán

Presidential Adviser on Human Rights Government of Colombia

Claire Methven O'Brien

Strategic Adviser, Human Rights and Development

Danish Institute for Human Rights

Bonita Meyersfeld Professor Centre for Applied Legal Studies

Ariel Meyerstein Vice President, Corporate Responsibility US Council for International Business

Peter Micek Global Policy & Legal Counsel Access Now

Anthony Miller Economic Affairs Office UNCTAD

Neha Misra Solidarity Center

Aunumpa Mohan Advisor Statoil ASA

Kindra Mohr Policy Direcotor Accountability Counsel

John Morrison Executive Director Institute for Human Rights and Business

Yuliya Neyman Land Governance and Legal Advisor USAid

Roel Nieuwenkamp Chair, Working Party for Responsible Business Conduct

OECD

Scott Jay Nova Executive Director Workers Rights Consortium, USA

Jerry Nwigwe Senior Programmes Manager LITE-Africa

Nomonde Nyembe Centre for Applied Legal Studies

Brynn O’Brien Business & Human Rights Technical Advisor

No Business in Abuse

Andrew Odete HIVOS International

Tricia Olsen Associate Professor University of Denver

Pedro Ortun Principal Advisor on Corporate Social Responsibility

European Commission

Sandeep Pattnaik Anti-Posco Solidarity National Campaign Committee (India)

Geneviève Paul Head of the Globalisation and Human Rights desk

FIDH

Jeremy Perelman Assistant Professor Sciences Po Law School Clinic, Paris

Rachel Phillips Rigby United States Government

Wendy Pineda Ortiz AIDESEP (Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest)

Arnaud Poitevin Researcher CNRS

Ron Popper Head of Corporate Responsibility ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd

Cheryl Queen VP Communications Compass Group

Komala Ramachandra South Asia Director Accountability Counsel

Bobby Ramakant Central News Service

Anita Ramasatry Professor of Law University of Washington School of Law

Dan Rees Director ILO-IFC Better Work Programme

Dominic Renfrey Programme Officer ESCR-Net

Miguel Rios Agricultural Enforcement Coordinator for the Southeast Region of the U.S. Wage and Hour Division

US Government Department of Labor

Sarah Roberts Executive Director Ethical Tea Partnership

Githa Roelans Head, Multinational Enterprises and Enterprise Engagement Unit

ILO

Manoela Roland Professor Homa - Human Rights and Business Centre

Mona Sabella Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man

Makbule Sahan Legal Officer International Trade Union Confederation

Prabindra Sakya Programme Coordinator AIPP

Makoto Saito Chair, CSR Project Team, JFBA; President Japan Federation of Bar Associations; SAITO Law Office Legal Profession Corp.

Andrea Saldarriaga LSE Investment & Human Rights Project Lead

IBA,CSR Committee and LSE Investment & Human Rights Project

Isabelle Salhorgne Vice President, Acquisitions Cessions and Financial

Total SA

María Isabel Jimenez Salinas

Indigenous Community Member Asamblea Popular del Pueblo Juchiteco - Oaxaca, Mexico

Michael Santoro Co-editor Business and Human Rights Journal

Martijn Scheltema Professor Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn

Viviane Schiavi Senior Policy Manager, Corporate Responsibility & Anti-corruption

International Chamber of Commerce

Jens Schlyter Special Advisor, Sustainable Business Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation

Eryn Schornick Policy Advisor, Banks and Corruption Global Witness

Christopher Schuller Legal Adviser German Institute for Human Rights

Olivier De Schutter Professor, University of Louvain; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

University of Louvain

Sara L. Seck Riccardo Serri

Senior Fellow, International Law Research Program, Centre for International Governance ; Associate Professor Deputy Head of Human Rights Strategy and Policy Implementation, European External Action Service

Faculty of Law, Western University European Union

Andrea Shemberg Project Lead Investment and Human Rights Project, Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy - Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE

Bernard Shen Assistant General Counsel Microsoft

Jessica Simor, QC Barrister Matrix Chambers, and member of Oslo Principles Expert Group on Climate Obligations

Maria Luisa Silva Director, Geneva Office UNDP

Emily Sims Senior Specialist and Manager, ILO Helpdesk

International Labour Organization

Gwynne Skinner Professor Willamette University

Benjamin Smith Senior Officer, Corporate Social Responsibility

International Labour Organization

Adam Smith-Anthony Senior Associate Omnia Strategy LLP

Sin Sokhomony Agriculture Policies Monitoring Project Coordinator

The NGO Forum on Cambodia

Lina Solano Ortiz Sociologist and Founder

Ecuadorian women's organisation Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama

Suzanne Spears Counsel Volterra Fietta

Haley St. Dennis Communications Manager Institute for Human Rights and Business

Jelena Stamenkova van Rumpt

Advisor, Responsible Investment PGGM

Rona Starr Director Supplier Workplace Accountability

McDonald's Corporation

Celine Steer International Organizations Coordinator Global Reporting Initiative

Grant Stevens Head of Sales Expolink Europe Ltd

Katharine Stewart Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability Director

Primark

Valentina Stoevska Senior Statistician, Department of Statistics

ILO

Robert Stumberg Georgetown University

Hisarhiro Sugiura Executive Director Games Operations Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee

Salli Swartz Board member ABA Center for Human Rights; Partner

Artus Wise

Sam Szoke-Burke Legal Researcher Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)

Sophio Tabatadze Ethics and Compliance Officer of Geocell Telia Sonera AB

Daisuke Takahashi Vice Chair, CSR Project Team, JFBA; Partner,

Japan Federation of Bar Associations; Shinwa Sohgoh Law Offices

Mark Taylor Research Director Fafo

Thomas Thomas CEO ASEAN CSR Network

Matthias Thorns Senior Adviser International Organisation of Employers

Jason Tower Quaker International Affairs Representative

Quaker United Nations Office

Salil Tripathi

Senior Adviser, Global Issues

Institute for Human Rights and Business

Elisabeth Tuerk Chief, International Investment Agreements Section, Division on Investment and Enterprise

UNCTAD

Basil Ugochukwu Post-doctoral fellow International Law Research Program, Centre for International Governance

Nelleke van Amstel Project Coordinator Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Auret van Heerden Labour Expert & President and Founder Equiception

Tara Van Ho Project Associate Essex Business and Human Rights Project

Mariette van Huijstee Sr. Researcher SOMO

Roderick van Schreven

Permanent Representative Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Paulo Vannuchi Commissioner Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Louis Vittor CAOI

Filippo Veglio Director of Social Impact World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Claude Voillat Economic Adviser International Committee of the Red Cross

Margreet Vrieling Head of Verification Fair Wear Foundation

Margaret Wachenfeld Director of Research and Legal Affairs Institute for Human Rights and Business

Simon Wake Principal advisor - Communities and Social Performance

Rio Tinto

Benjamin Ware Manager, Responsible Sourcing Nestlé

Angeline Welsh Senior Associate Allen & Overy LLP's Human Rights Working Group and Arbitration Group

Lene Wendland Adviser on business and human rights OHCHR

Tamara Wiher-Fernandez

Human Security Advisor Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Joseph Wilde Senior Researcher Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)

Rachel Wilshaw Ethical Trade Manager, Private Sector team, Campaigns, Policy and Influencing Team

Oxfam GB

Brent Wilton Global Director, Workplace Rights and Human Rights

Coca-Cola Company

Aye Khaing Win Community representative Myanmar Independent

Mark Work Blueprint for Free Speech

Katryn Wright Programme Director - Outreach & Capacity Building

GBI

Takashi Yanai President Myanmar Japan Thilawa Development Limited (MJTD)

Jennifer Zerk Independent expert Jennifer Zerk Consulting / Consultant to OHCHR

Verónica Zubía Advisor, Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Government of Chile