2020 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

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Featured Speakers

Michelle Bachelet

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Elisabeth TICHY-FISSLBERGER

Human Rights Council

President

Guy Ryder

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Director-General

Sanda Ojiambo

UN Global Compact

CEO & Executive Director

Mary Robinson

The Elders

Chair

Anand Giridharadas

Author

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anita Ramasastry

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Chair

Dante Pesce

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Vice Chairperson

Surya Deva

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Member

Elżbieta Karska

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

member

Githu Muigai

UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

member

Asako Okai

UNDP

UN Assistant Secretary General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and...

Sanjay Wijesekera

UNICEF

Director of Programmes

CK

Christine Kaufmann

OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct

Chair

Didier Reynders

European Commission

Commissioner for Justice in charge of Rule of Law and Consumer...

Takashi Uto

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA)

State Minister for Foreign Affairs

Bärbel Kofler

Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and...

Sigrid A. Kaag

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

Silvia Lara Povedano

Goverment of Costa Rica

Vice-Minister of the Presidency of Costa Rica

Lolwah Rashid AL-KHATER

Qatar

Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

Valeria Kolomiets

Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

Deputy Minister on European Integration

Sharan Burrow

ITUC

General Secretary

Alice Mogwe

President, International Federation for Human Rights and Director, DITSHWANELO – The Botswana Centre for Human Rights

Roberto Suárez Santos

International Organisation of Employers (IOE)

Secretary-General

John W. H. Denton AO

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)- The World Business Organization

Secretary General

Joseph Wilde-Ramsing

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and OECD Watch

Senior Researcher

Innocence Ntap Ndiaye

Haut Conseil du Dialogue Social du Sénégal

President

Speakers

CA

Chowdhury Abrar

Keren Adams

Human Rights Law Centre

Legal Director

FP

Francess Piagie Alghali

Government of Sierra Leone

Minister of State, Office of the Vice President

Abiodun Baiyewu

Global Rights / African Coalition for Corporate Accountability

Executive Director / Co-Chair

Christopher Ballinas

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México

Director General de Derechos Humanos y Democracia

Natasa Bergelj

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Head of the Human Rights Department

WB

Wolfgang Bindseil

Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Head of Division for Business and Human Rights

Phil Bloomer

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Executive Director

SB

Scott Brandon

U.S. Department of State

Deputy Director

Marlese von Broembsen

Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)

Law Programme Director

RC

Roberto Cadiz

Rob Cameron

Nestlé

Global Head of Public Affairs and Sustainability

Elisa Canqui

Indígena Aymara, Bolivia

Indígena Aymara, Bolivia, Gerente de Programa Oxfam Latinoamerica y...

Lucie Chatelain

Sherpa

Advocacy and Litigation Officer

BC

Barnali Choudhury

Jesse Coleman

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University

Senior Legal Researcher

CC

Carlos Correa

South Centre

Executive Director

Stephen Cotton

International Transport Workers' Federation

General Secretary

Lorenzo Cotula

IIED

Principal Researcher

Maria-Isabel Cubides

Federacion Internacional de Derechos Humanos (FIDH)

Program Officer Globalization and Human Rights Desk

Laura Curtze

Global Compact Network Germany

Director Business and Human Rights

CD

Charline Daelman

Amfori

Social Sustainability Expert

Ekaterina Deikalo

Belarusian State University

Associate Professor of the International law Chair

Liudmyla Denisova

Ombudsman of Ukraine

Project Assistant

Sumi Dhanarajan

National University of Singapore

Sifiso Dladla

ActionAid South Africa

Mining & Extractives Lead

HD

Heike Drillisch

CorA Netzwork for Corporate Accountability

Coordinator

Arjan Dyrmishi

Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection

Coordinator

Sandra Epal-Ratjen

Franciscans International

International Advocacy Director and Deputy Executive Director

Danielle Essink

Robeco

Senior Engagement Specialist, Active Ownership

Beata Faracik

Polish Institute for Human Rights and Business

Co-Founder & President of the Board

Andrew Feinstein

Shadow World Investigations

Author of The Shadow World

Remy Friedmann

Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Senior Advisor

David Gaukrodger

OECD

Senior Legal Adviser, Investment Division

William Gois

Migrant Forum in Asia

Regional Coordinator

BG

Brian Gonsalves

AngloGoldAshanti

Vice President: Group Security and Human Rights Group Sustainability

Eva Grambye

Danish Institute for Human Rights

Head of International Division & Deputy Executive Director

MG

Miguel Guimares

FECONAU- Ucayali region, Peru

Indigenous rights defender

NG

Nancy Gutiérrez

Colombia

Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights

Tamar Gvaramadze

Office of Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia

First Deputy Public Defender

Christy Hoffmann

UNI Global Union

General Secretary

JG

John Gbodi Ikubaje

African Union

Political Officer

Freddy Carrion Intriago

Defensoría del Pueblo (Ecuador)

Defensor del Pueblo

Lisa Isakson

Greenfood

Head of Communication and Sustainability

Emilio Izquierdo

Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations in Geneva...

Lyra Jakulevičienė

Mykolas Romeris University

Dean, Law School; Professor

Maja Kristine Jåma

Saemiedigkie

Politcal advisor

Scott Johnston

Human Rights First

Associate Attorney for Human Rights Accountability

Stefan Jovanovski

A1 Makedonija dooel Skopje

Head of Human Resources

AK

Apoorva Kaiwar

IndustriAll South Asia

Regional Secretary

Eunji Kang

Korean House for International Solidarity

Director, Business and Human Rights

Marina Kapustina

bnt attorneys in CEE

junior associate

Harpreet Kaur

UNDP

Business and Human Rights Specialist

Nazhat Shameem Khan

Fiji Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in Geneva, and...

Tun Khin

JK

Joe Kibugu

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Minwoo Kim

International Human Rights Center at the GSIS, Korea University

Research Professor

Chidi King

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Director of the Equality Department

Sudarsana Kundu

Gender at Work

Co-Executive Director

KK

Katrin Kvaran

The Norwegian Ministry of Children and Families

Senior Adviser

Mary Lawlor

Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders

Cristina Tebar Less

OCDE

Jefa del Centro de la OCDE para la Conducta Empresarial Responsable

Laurent Lhopitallier

Sanofi

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sun Lihui

China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters, CCCMC

Director

Marcio Luiz de Freitas Naves de Lima

Ministério da Economia da Brazil

Subsecretário de Investimentos Estrangeiros da Secretaria Executiva...

Carlos Lopez

International Commission of Jurists

Senior Legal Adviser

June L. Lorenzo

Indigenous Peoples' Caucus

FL

Faith Lumonya

Southern and Eastern African Trade, Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI)

Program Officer, Trade and Investment

LL

Larissa Luy

IFC

Environmental and Social Risk and Grievance Response Manager

Chanda Thapa Magar

Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)

Deputy Secretary General

Khalid Mahmood

Labour Education Foundation

Director

Tinashe Makuyana

Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission

Human Rights Officer

MM

Marcela Manubens

Unilever

Global Vice President for Integrated Social Sustainability

MM

Mirko Manzoni

UN

Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Mozambique

Victoria Marquez-Mees

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Managing Director - Chief Accountability Officer

Ali bin Samikh Al Marri

NHRC-Qatar

Chairman

Robert McCorquodale

Inclusive Law

Professor

CM

Claudine McMahon

Vodafone Group

RM

Richard Meeran

Leigh Day

Head of International

Bob Mitchell

Responsible Business Alliance

Vice President

Kinda Mohamadieh

Third World Network

Senior Researcher and Legal Adviser

Edgar Mojica

CUT Colombia

Secretario General

Krishnendu Mukherjee

Doughty Street Chambers

Barrister

Adriana Greaves Muñoz

TOJIL

Cofounder

Mwambus Mwamba

NHRI of DRC

President

Sandile Ndelu

Centre for Applied Legal Studies

Advocacy Coordinator

Yves Nissim

Orange

VP Head of transformation and operation in CSR

Justine Nolan

Faculty of Law at The University of New South Wales

Professor

Leslie Norton

Canada Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and...

NN

Naomi Nwokolo

UN Global Compact Network Nigeria

Executive Director

Phyllis Omido

Center for justice governance and environmental action

grassroots environmental activist and co- founder

AO

Austin Onuoha

Africa Center for Corporate Responsibility ACCR

Executive Director

DO

Douglas Opio

Permanent Mission of Mexico in Geneva

adviser

Marcos A Orellana

Procedimientos Especiales de las Naciones Unidas

Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the...

José Aylwin Oyarzún

Observatorio Ciudadano (Citizens’ Rights Watch) / FIDH

Coordinador Programa Globalización y Derechos / Deputy Secretary...

Gerald Pachoud

Advisor to the UNWG projects on conflict and UNGPs10+

Advisor to the UNWG projects on conflict and UNGPs10+

ZP

Zainab Patel

KPMG India

Director of Inclusion and Diversity

Claudia Paz y Paz

Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional · Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)

Director of the Central America and Mexico Program,

Antonella Pellegrini

ENEL Chile

Head of Sustainability and communities relations

Migdalia Ma. Pellicier

Indigenous Peoples' Caucus

Co-Chair

Emmanuel Peni

Project Sepik, Papua New Guinea

Coordinator

Gladice Pickering

Ministry of Justice, Republic of Namibia

Deputy Executive Director

Netithorn Praditsarn

C.P. Group (Thailand)

Executive Assistant to Group CEO; Senior Vice President, Global...

Paloma Muñoz Quick

UN B-Tech Project and UNGPs10+

Advisor

TR

Trinanjan Radhakrishnan

Oxfam India

Coordinator-Responsible Supply Chain & Sustainable Development

Namrata Raju

Equidem

India Director

TR

Therese Randazzo

US Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection

Deepika Rao

Cividep India

Programme Director

Caroline Rees

Shift

President

Jimena Reyes

FIDH

Director for the Americas

Humberto Cantu Rivera

Institute of Business and Human Rights, University of Monterrey

Executive Director

Arianna Rossi

Senior Researcher and Policy specialist, Better Work Global

ILO

OR

Odile Roussel

Ambassadrice chargée de la bioéthique et de la responsabilité...

Raymond Saner

Professor, Basel University and Science Po in Paris

Director CSEND in Geneva and Co-chair of the academic network of the...

YS

Yeb Sano

Livio Sarandrea

UNDP

Chief Adviser and Manager, Business and Human Rights in Asia

Vani Saraswathi

Migrant-Rights.Org

Associate Editor and Director of Projects

RS

Rana Sengupta

Mine Labour Protection Campaign Trust (MLPC)

Managing Trustee & CEO

Gbenga Sesan

Paradigm Initiative

Executive Director

Andrea Shemberg

Global Business Initiative on Human Rights

Chair

BS

Bidya Shrestha

Lorraine Sibanda

Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Association

President

PS

Penelope Simons

Gyaneshwar Kumar Singh

Republic of India

Joint Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Ganga Somasekarappa

Karnataka Garment Workers Union

Vann Sophath

Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)

Business and Human Rights Project Coordinator

Ruwan Subasinghe

International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)

Legal Advisor

Saunoamaali'i Karanina Sumeo

Human Rights Commission

Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner

Pensri Suteerasarn

Thai Listed Companies Association (TLCA)

President and Secretary General

Daisuke Takahashi

Shinwa Sohgoh Law Offices / Business and Human Rights Lawyers Network Japan

Partner Attorney / Steering Committee Officer

Monica Tepfer

CGT Argentina

Abogada

Michele Thatcher

PepsiCo

Chief Human Rights Officer

KT

Katy Thompson

UNDP

Team Leader, Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights

Matthias Thorns

International Organisation of Employers - IOE

Deputy Secretary-General

HT

Halla Tómasdóttir

B Team

CEO

Deniz Utlu

German Institute for Human Rights / Business and human rights working group of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

Senior Policy Advisor / Chair

Deniz Utlu

German Institute for Human Rights / Business and human rights working group of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

Senior Policy Advisor / Chair

Olena Uvarova

Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine

Head of the International Lab on Business and Human Rights

Martina Vandeberg

The Human Trafficking Legal Center

President

Oyu Vasha

Government of Mongolia

Director-General of the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation...

José Luis Blasco Vazquez

Acciona

Global Sustainability Director

FV

Filippo Veglio

World Business Council on Sustainable Development

Managing Director

Sanjay Kumar Verma

Birla Cellulose- Aditya Birla Group

Sr. President & Unit Head

VV

Verónica Vidal

Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (ProDESC)

Deputy Director

Eady vuthy

Equitable Cambodia

Executive Director

Vic Van Vuuren

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Director of the Enterprises department

Yuyun Wahyuningrum

AICHR

Representative of Indonesia

Jackline Wanjiru

UNEP

RW

Romesh Weeramantry

Clifford Chance

Lene Wendland

OHCHR

Chief, Business and Human Rights

Dominika Wierzbowska

Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy

Head of the Unit for CSR and NGOs cooperation

Elizabeth Wilde

Permanent Mission of Australia

Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative

EW

Elin Wrzoncki

DIHR

Department Director, Human Rights and Business

Anil Yilmaz

University of Essex School of Law and Human Rights Centre

Lecturer and Co-director of the Essex Business and Human Rights...

Jennifer Zerk

OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project

Chief Legal Consultant

Joe Zhang

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Senior Law Advisor

Salome Zurabishvili

Global Compact Network Georgia

Executive Director