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Marcela Manubens

Unilever
Global Vice President for Integrated Social Sustainability
Marcela Manubens is the Global Vice President for Integrated Social Sustainability at Unilever. She joined in 2013 and led the social impact strategy and the expansion of the USLP Enhancing Livelihoods ambition incorporating Human Rights, Women's Empowerment and Inclusive Business. In 2016, Ms. Manubens assumed expanded responsibility for all areas of Supply Chain Social Sustainability while continuing to lead the global Human Rights agenda.
Through her work, Ms. Manubens has led an integrated socially-sustainable business approach and advocated for responsible innovation, addressing fundamental principles in technology/AI, driving a responsible automation agenda and critically promoting transparency and pioneering the first stand-alone Human Rights report under UNGP’s Reporting Framework.
Prior to joining Unilever, Ms. Manubens was Corporate Social Responsibility Officer at PVH Corp., notably establishing one of the first Human Rights and Social Responsibility programmes in the early 1990s. Ms. Manubens participated in initiatives to eradicate sweatshops and advance human rights. She was a member of the Fair Labour Association (FLA) Board of Directors and its Executive Committee and chaired the Board of Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP) for three years. Ms. Manubens gave testimony in the United States Congress as an expert witness upon the invitation of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and represented U.S. business in the launching of the Global Report on Child Labour by the ILO at the United Nations.
At present, she is a Board Member of Sir Kensington’s Integrity Board; Member of the Advisory Group on Human Rights to the UK Foreign Secretary; Member of the Consumer Goods Forum Coalition of Action on Human Rights and an Advisory Board Member at the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights.
Ms. Manubens is a lecturer at the University of Bergen. She was a professor in Human Rights and International Business at Columbia University and on Microeconomics at her alma mater Universidad de Belgano, Argentina.

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Wednesday, November 18
 

15:15 CET

 
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