Academy

Learning

The Institute for Human Rights and Business offers a range of training on issues across the business and human rights agenda. Drawing on its roster of international experts, IHRB Academy provides standard, advanced, or bespoke training to meet the needs of any organisation interested in:

  • increasing understanding of business and human rights issues;
  • refining skills to implement human rights due diligence;
  • developing internal competencies on specific topics;
  • addressing real world human rights dilemmas.

The IHRB Academy Faculty includes members of IHRB staff, Research Fellows and Advisory Council, as well as other global experts from the worlds of business, academia and civil society.  

We provide business and human rights training for students, corporates and NGOs as outlined below. 

Academic

Since 2016, IHRB has been running its highly-respected annual business and human rights masters course in partnership with Rafto Foundation and Bergen University in Norway. The course is open to global applicants from across business, government, academia, and civil society.

IHRB also offers experienced professionals an international certificate in Social Risk and Opportunity in the Built Environment, in partnership with Ove Arup Foundation and NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. 

IHRB's staff are regularly invited to provide guest lectures on business and human rights at leading universities, including Oxford University, University of Washington, Korea University, Cambridge University, IIM Bangalore (India), Singapore Inst. of Management, the Norwegian School of Economics, HEC Paris, the London School of Economics, and others. For enquiries, please contact academy@ihrb.org

Corporate

IHRB provides bespoke training for teams that regularly address human rights-related issues. Training covers industry-sector, country-specific, or thematic human rights dilemmas and challenges tailored to support a range of functions - legal and compliance, supply chains and procurement, corporate communications, human resources, corporate responsibility, sustainability. 

Organisations that would benefit from IHRB Academy training include businesses, trade associations, embassies, academic institutions, government departments, and not-for-profit entities. To discuss your organisation’s human rights training needs, contact academy@ihrb.org

IHRB runs a dedicated Built Environment Academy, focusing on buildings and infrastructure. Find out more.

NGOs

IHRB has designed training specifically for non-governmental and civil society organisations to help them navigate the complicated process of engaging with the myriad different complex layers of multinational corporate entities. In particular IHRB will provide training on corporate supply chains.  For more information, contact academy@ihrb.org

Team

Meet the Academy team and learn about their expertise.

Salil Tripathi

Senior Advisor, Global Issues, IHRB
Francesca Fairbairn

Oceans, Commodities, and Academy Programme Manager, IHRB