Forum Speakers

Forum speakers

(*according to plenaries and stakeholder groups - updated 11.11)

Plenaries

Sergei Alexandrovich Vice-President, Council of the Chairperson of the 2016 UN Forum Ordzhonikidze Civil Chamber of the Russian on Business & Human Rights Federation

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 OHCHR for Human Rights

Sara Hossain Honorary Director Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust

Albachir Macassar National Director for Human Ministry of Justice, Constitutional Rights and Citizenship and Religious Affairs, Mozambique

Amol Mehra Director International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

Githu Muigai Attorney General Government of Kenya

Geert Muylle Permanent Representative of Vice President, UN Human Rights Belgium 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 Harvard Kennedy School Rights and International Affairs

Johann Schneider-Ammann President The Swiss Confederation

Christiana Tah Counselor Former Attorney General / Minister of Justice in Liberia

Cristina Tébar Less Head, Responsible Business OECD Conduct (RBC) Unit

Mark Wilson CEO Aviva

Jasmine Whitbread Non-Executive Director BT Group & Standard Chartered Bank

Vanessa Zimmerman Business and Human Rights Former Legal Advisor to the Specialist UNSRSG on Business and Human Rights

Business

Libby Annat Ethical Trade and Sustainability Primark Controller

Kristina Åreskog Sustainability Coordinator AxFood

Khalil Benchekroun Purchasing Associate Director, Procter & Gamble MEA Region

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 Esprit Social and Environmental Sustainability Lord John Browne Executive Chairman L1 Energy

Jay Celorie Global Program Manager HP Inc.

Jaume Corbella Community relations and human Repsol rights advisor Nick Cotts Group Executive - Sustainability Newmont Mining Corporation and External Relations Rachel Cowburn-Walden Global Director - Human Rights Unilever Stewardship

Heloisa Covolan Social Responsibility Itaipu Binacional; & UN Global Coordinator; & Vice President Compact Brazil Network

Jo Gacheru Security and Human Rights Shell Advisor

Giulia Genuardi Head of Sustainability Planning Enel Group and Performance Management

Steve Heron Reward Consultant Unilever

Simon Henzell-Thomas Sustainability Policy Manager & Inter IKEA Group Head of Stakeholder Engagement Patrik Hiselius Senior Advisor Telia Company

Clare Iery Associate Director, Ethics & Procter & Gamble Compliance Office Marcel Jacobs Director of Supplier Philips Sustainability Mónica Jiménez González Secretaria General Ecopetrol S.A.

Nicole Karlebach Senior Legal Counsel, Business Yahoo Inc. & Human Rights

Richard Karmel Managing Partner Mazars LLP

Dickson Kimathi Field Technical / Agronomy Flamingo Horticulture Manager Anna Krutikov Head of Sustainable Glencore Development

Tom Mackall Vice President Global Labor Sodexo Relations 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 Marks & Spencer Plc Packaging & Plan A Yves Nissim VP, Head of Transformation & France Telecom - Orange Operation in CSR

Ian Peters Chief Executive Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors Ron Popper Former Head of Corporate ABB Responsibility

Violaine Du Pontavice Executive Director EY Société d'avocats

Paula Pyers Senior Director, Supplier Apple Inc Responsibility

Lea Rankinen Senior Vice President, S Group Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Jonathan Refoy Director of European Corporate CH2M HILL Affairs

Nili Safavi Human Rights Specialist BP

Jochanan Senf EU Director Ben & Jerry’s

Rodrigo Serrat Director of Corporate Social Aeromexico Responsibility

Bernard Shen Assistant General Counsel Microsoft

Katherine Stewart Ethical Trade and Environmental Primark Sustainability Director

Helen Simpson Global Voluntary Principles BP Advisor for Security and Human Rights Andrew Slight Director, Global Public Policy PepsiCo and Government Affairs

Matthias Stausberg Group Advocacy Director Virgin Management Limited

Minako Suzuki Corporate Citizenship Office Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Mathilde Tabary Director, Social Development & Carrefour Diversity Noel Tagoe Executive Vice President - CIMA (Chartered Institute of Academics Management Accountants)

Subathra Vaidhiyanathan Senior CSR Manager New Look

Brent Wilton Director of Global Workplace The Coca-Cola Company Rights

Yann Wyss Human Rights Specialist Nestlé

Business / Employers’ / Industry Associations

Shubha Chandra Manager, Social Sustainability, UN Global Compact Human Rights & Legal 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)

Roger McElrath Associate Director BSR

Mthunzi Mdwaba Regional Vice-President The International Organisation of (Africa); & Employers (IOE); & CEO Tzoro IBC

Bob Mitchell Vice-President, Environmental Electronic Industry Citizenship and Social responsibility Coalition (EICC)

Peter Nestor Associate Director, Human BSR Rights

Viviane Schiavi Senior Policy Manager, International Chamber of Corporate Responsibility and Commerce (ICC) Anti-corruption Catie Shavin Director Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI)

Roberto Suarez Deputy Secretary-General International Organization of Employers (IOE) Thomas Thomas CEO 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 & American Friends Service Co-Founder 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 Landesa Partnerships Phil Bloomer Executive Director Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Caio Borges Attorney in the Business and Conectas Human Rights Human Rights Project Ryan Brightwell Researcher & Editor BankTrack

Sarah Brooks Asia Programme Manager and International Service for Human Advocate Rights

Joan Carling Secretary General Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)

Virginia Carcedo General Manager Inserta Empleo Fundacion ONCE

Aruna Chandrasekhar Researcher Independent (India)

Björn Claeson Director Electronics Watch

Michael Clements Head of Environmental Rights Lawyers for Human Rights (South Programme Africa)

Rachel Davis Managing Director Shift

Caroline Dommen Consultant, Human Rights and Independent Economics

Heather Eisenlord Director for Economic Justice International Senior Lawyers Project and Accountability

Marya Farah Legal Research and Advocacy Al-Haq Officer

Gustavo Ferroni Policy and Advocacy Advisor Oxfam Brazil

Livia Firth Founder Eco-Age

Bennett Freeman Senior Advisor & Business for Social Responsibility Steering Committee member (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 Centro Vincular - PUCV Responsibility

Michael Ineichen Programme Manager and Human International Service for Human Rights Council Advocacy Rights Director Omar Jeronimo Coordinator Nuevo Dia Ch'orti Indigenous Association (Guatemala) Chris Jochnick CEO & Landesa & Chair of Board Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Leslie Johnston Executive Director C&A Foundation

Seema Joshi Head of Business and Human Amnesty International Rights

Mary Kambo Labour rights adviser, Economic Kenya Human Rights Commission and Social Justice (ESJ) Programme

Joseph Ole Kaunga Director IMPACT, Kenya

Harpreet Kaur Senior South Asia Researcher & Business and Human Rights Representative 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 Global Witness Environmental Rights Defenders Anselmo Lee Executive Director Korea Human Rights Foundation

Shauna Leven Director of Anti-Corruption Global Witness Campaigns Shawn MacDonald CEO Verité

Peter McAllister Executive Director Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)

Andreas Missbach Head of Commodities, Trade and Public Eye Finance Kilian Moote KnowTheChain Project Director Humanity United

Manuel F. Montes Senior Advisor, Finance and South Centre; & Development, & Independent Commission for the Member 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 Accord on Fire and Building Safety Stakeholder Engagement in Bangladesh

Gerald Pachoud Managing Partner Pluto Advisory

Geneviève Paul Program Officer Above Ground, Canada

Santiago Porto Associate Consultant PeaceNexus

Purarama Pradhan Posco Pratirodh Sagram Samiti (PPSS)

Sarah Saadoun Business and Human Rights Human Rights Watch

Prabindra Shakya Human Rights Programme Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Coordinator

Klara Skrivankova UK and Europe Programme Anti-Slavery International Manager

Irit Tamir Advocacy Manager, Private Oxfam America Sector Department Salil Tripathi Senior Advisor of Global Issues Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)

Simon Usher Chief Executive Bonsucro

Elena Villafuete Advocacy - Transnational ProDESC Justice Hector Jaime Vinasco Coordinator of Mining Issues Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta, Colombia Egbert Wesselink Senior Advisor PAX

Joseph Wilde-Ramsing Senior Researcher Centre for Research on & Multinational Corporations (SOMO) Coordinator & OECD Watch network

Rachel Wilshaw Ethical Trade Manager Oxfam GB Board Member Ethical Trading Initiative

Sarah Zoen Senior Policy Advisor, Private Oxfam America Sector Department

Pre-recorded video Affected community members - Porgera, Papua New Guinea; interviews - North Mara mine, Tanzania; - Bodo community, Nigeria

Financial Institutions / Organisations

Nico Ahn Project Manager, Environmental, Allianz Social & Governance Office Annie Bersagel Advisor on Responsible KLP (Norwegian life insurance Investments 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 CDC, UK Social Responsibility Daniëlle Essink Senior engagement specialist Robeco

Eliza Eubank Director of Environmental and Citi Social Risk Management

Giulia Guidi Executive Director, Global J.P. Morgan Environmental & Social Risk Management Claire Ighodaro Board member and Audit Lloyd’s of London and Flood Re Committee Chair Christian Leitz Head of Corporate Responsibility UBS Management Maria Lisiakova Risk Manager, Group Risk Swiss Re Management

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 Norwegian Government Ethics Pension Fund Global

Charlotte Scheltus Advisor, Sustainability & Human ASN Bank Rights

David Schilling Director, Global Corporate Interfaith Center on Corporate Accountability Responsibility (ICCR)

David Simpson Project Complaint Mechanism European Bank for Reconstruction Office and Development

Jaideep Singh Panwar Manager, Sustainability & APG Asset Management Asia Governance Asia Pacific

Mercedes Sotoca Head of Environmental and Social ING Risk

Jelena Stamenkova van Responsible Investment Advisor PGGM Investments Rumpt

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 Aviva Investors Officer

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 U.S. Department of State International Labor Affairs

Rémy Friedmann Senior Advisor - Desk Human Swiss Federal Department of Security and Business Foreign Affairs

Kevin Funk Senior Advisor U.S. General Services Administration

Paula Gaviria Betancur Presidential High Commissioner Government of Colombia on Human Rights

Pauline Gothberg National Coordinator Swedish County Councils and Regions

Susanne Hoffmann Director-General, European and German Federal Ministry of Labour International Employment and and Social Affairs Social Policies (ESF) Saut P. Hutagalung Adviser to the Minister of Marine Republic of Indonesia Affairs and Fisheries

Dame Carol Kidu Co-Convenor & Porgera Remediation Framework, Former member of Parliament Papua New Guinea

Sandra Lendenmann Head of Human Rights Policy Swiss Federal Department of Office 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 & UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Democracy Department

Rosemary McCarney Ambassador Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva

Fabrizio Petri President of the Italian Inter- Government of Italy ministerial Committee for Human Rights (CIDU) Jason Pielemeier Special Advisor, Bureau of U.S. Department of State Democracy, Human Rights & Labor Pedro Posada Director of Indigenous, Roma Ministry of the Interior, Colombia and Minority Affairs

Rachel Phillips Rigby Deputy Chief, Office of Child U.S. Department of Labor Labor, Forced Labor & Human Trafficking Margaret Purdasy Legal Counsellor UK mission to the UN in Geneva

Geneviève van Rossum Ambassador of Bioethics and Government of France Corporate Social Responsibility

Jens Schlyter Special Advisor, Sustainable Ministry of Enterprise & Innovation, Business Government of Sweden

Katherine Schwenn Purchasing Supervisor City of Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Alexandra van Selm Program Director, International Social and Economic Council of the Responsible Business Conduct Netherlands (SER)

Ricardo Sepúlveda Iguiniz Director General of Public Government of Mexico Human Rights Policy, Ministry of Interior

José Henrique Vieira General Coordinator for Trade Government of Brazil Martins Policy, Secretariat for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance

Kamil Zabielski Head of Sustainability Team Norwegian Export Credit Agency, GIEK/Export Credit Norway

International and Regional Organisations

Butch Bacani Programme Leader, UNEP FI UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative Albert Barume Member UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Solomon Dersso, Commissioner and chair of the African Commission on Human and Working Group on Extractive Peoples’ Rights Industries in Africa 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 ILO Policy Horacio Guido Chief of Application of ILO Standards, International Labour Standards Department Susan Hayter Senior Labour Relations ILO Specialist

Trinidad Inostroza President Inter-American Network for Government Procurement; Chile Compra Anthony Miller Coordinator of Sustainable Stock UNCTAD Exchanges Initiative 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 ILO Equality Department

Esteban Tromel Senior Disability Specialist ILO Global Business and Disability Network Elisabeth Tuerk Chief, Section on International UNCTAD Investment Agreements

Vic Van Vuuren Director, Enterprises Department ILO

Lene Wendland Advisor on Business & Human OHCHR Rights

Lawyers

Nicole Bigby Partner & Director of Risk Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

Robin Brooks Partner Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Heikki Cantell Secretary General & General Nordic Investment Bank Counsel

Christie Constantine Global Director of Corporate Baker & McKenzie Social Responsibility

Ricardo Cortes-Monroy Chief Legal Officer and Group Nestlé General Counsel Daniel D'Ambrosio Associate, International DLA Piper Business & Human Rights

Jonathan Exten-Wright Partner DLA Piper

Malin Helgesen Legal Counsel Statoil ASA

Arnaud Martin Partner, Attorney and Tax ABR Attorneys at Law LLC, Expert Switzerland

Robert McCorquodale Director British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)

Richard Meeran Partner Leigh Day

Adebola Ogunlade Legal Counsel in Human Rights, Total Compliance and Social Responsibility Moira Oliver Head of Policy & Chief Counsel, British Telecommunications plc Human/Digital Rights

Martijn Scheltema Partner Pels Rijcken

Maarten Scholten Senior Vice-President, General Total Counsel Jessica Simor QC Matrix Chambers and Lawyers Circle Frederike Stikkelbroeck Senior Legal Counsel AkzoNobel

Annelies Verlinden Partner DLA Piper

Media

Imogen Foulkes Geneva Correspondent BBC

National Human Rights Institutions

Justice H.L. Dattu Chairperson National Human Rights Commission of India

Lee Sung-ho Chairperson The National Human Rights Commission of Korea

Christopher Schuller Legal Adviser on Business and German Institute for Human Rights Human Rights

Stella Wangechi Human Rights Lawyer Kenya National Commission on Human Rights

Trade Union

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)

Universities / Schools / Academia

Dorothee Baumann-Pauly Research Director NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

Danny Bradlow SARCHI Professor of University of Pretoria International Development Law and African Economic Relations 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, University of Zurich constitutional & administrative law

Sarah Knuckey Lieff Cabraser Associate Columbia Law School Clinical Professor of Law

Sheldon Leader Director, Essex Business & University of Essex Human Rights Project

René Lefeber Professor of International University of Amsterdam Environmental Law (formerly Chair, Council of Europe CDDH-CORP) Faris Natour Director, Human Rights and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Initiative Business

Justine Nolan Associate Professor & University of NSW & Deputy Director Australian Human Rights Centre

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 Stellenbosch University, South Procurement Research Group 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