About IHRB: Research Fellows

Lucy Amis (Research Fellow)
Lucy has served as lead author for IHRB’s report on The UN Global Compact and Human Rights: Developing a Vision for 2020 and co-author of the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity. Lucy has advised multinational companies in developing human rights policies and she led the business and human rights programme at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) for nearly a decade. At IBLF her responsibilities included co-authoring path breaking reports such as Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide, and Human Rights: A Geography of Corporate Risk.

Kathryn Dovey (Research Fellow – Gender)
Kathryn Dovey is IHRB's Gender Research Fellow. She focuses on ensuring that gender perspectives are integrated throughout all IHRB reports and activities.

Kathryn is a Director of the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights and has been involved in the business and human rights field for several years. As an independent consultant she has provided expert advice to multinational companies and organisations including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the Hague Process on Refugees and Migration. Kathryn leads on gender issues within her field on behalf of the Institute for Human Rights and Business and Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative.

Nick Killick (Research Fellow – Conflict)
Nick Killick is IHRB's Conflict Research Fellow. His activities have included serving as lead author of IHRB's report From Red to Green Flags: The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in High-Risk Countries.

For over a decade, Nick has been working strategically with companies, governments, donors and multi-lateral institutions on political and conflict analysis. He has direct field experience in parts of Africa, South Asia and the former Soviet Union. A former manager of International Alert’s thematic programs, Nick served on the governance committee of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and was recently part of the Independent Panel reviewing the social impacts of the world's largest open-pit coal mine.

Amy Lehr (Research Fellow - Legal)
Amy Lehr is IHRB's Legal Research Fellow.

Amy provides research and advice to the Institute on a pro bono basis on behalf of Foley Hoag’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) practice. The CSR practice provides advice to multinational corporations on best practices with regard to human rights, labour rights, transparency, and indigenous rights issues, as well as on stakeholder relations with local communities, host governments, security providers, and non-governmental organisations. Amy's work with IHRB focuses primarily on deepening understanding of human rights due diligence. Amy served previously as a legal advisor to John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights.

Anita Ramasastry (Senior Research Fellow)
Anita Ramasastry is the UW Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. Her research interests include business and human rights, anti-corruption and law and development. Her current research focuses on the role of business in armed conflict.

She has authored numerous scholarly articles and reports focused on emerging issues in business and human rights including Commerce, Crime and Conflict (with Mark Taylor and Bob Thompson) and a recent study for the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable on Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States (with Olivier de Schutter, M. Taylor and R. Thompson).