Deniz Utlu is a Senior Policy Advisor at the German Institute for Human Rights in the field of business and human rights, currently chairing the business and human rights working group of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions. His special areas of focus include trade in raw materials, supply chains, human rights impact assessment, corporate human rights due diligence, national action plans. He also examines the applicability of economic models and behavioural economics to human rights and the epistemic limits of economic theories.