Speakers

Rola Abimourched

Investments Manager, Humanity United

As Investments Manager, Rola supports Humanity United’s Human Trafficking in Labor Migration portfolio.

Before joining HU, Rola was a Program Specialist with Polaris, where she was in charge of building partnerships and delivering trainings in the Middle East and North Africa with the goal of improving protection and services for victims of human trafficking and forced labor. Prior to that, Rola was a Program Manager at KAFA (Enough) Violence & Exploitation, a Lebanese non-profit organization, where she led a team in implementing activities aimed at increasing migrant women’s capacity to advocate for their rights and pressuring the government to implement reforms. In addition to supporting other program areas such as addressing violence against women and human trafficking in Lebanon. Rola was a consultant with the International Labour Organization, working on labor migration research and projects. Rola specializes in issues related to migration, human trafficking, gender, and human rights.

She completed her master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown University with a concentration in gender and humanitarian emergencies.

Marie Apostol

CEO, The FAIR Hiring Initiative Inc

Marie is the founder and creative energy behind The FAIR Hiring Initiative (TFHI) and brings a worldwide reputation and vast knowledge of the international labor migration arena to the operation of The FAIR Hiring Initiative Inc (a social enterprise ethical recruitment agency that serves as a living laboratory to develop and test ethical recruitment approaches and strategies that are in turn used as basis for ethical recruitment-related training, assessment and consulting). She is currently leading the development of a labor agency certification program (On The Level). Previously with Verité, she spearheaded supply chain initiatives worldwide to address recruitment-related debt bondage and modern-day slavery.  Marie is certified by the International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA) as a Lead Tutor for the Electronics Industry’s Auditor Accreditation Program, that she helped to develop, and served on the Global Reporting Initiative’s Stakeholder Council. Marie advises a number of different stakeholder groups, including businesses, NGOs, investors and academe on market-led recruitment reform. 

Menno Bart

Public Affairs Specialist, Adecco Group

Menno Bart is Public Affairs Specialist at the Adecco Group. As such, he is responsible for managing the Group’s relationship with global and European institutional stakeholders, and for positioning the Group as a labour market leader. Previously, Menno worked as a lobbyist in Brussels for the World Employment Confederation, the industry federation representing the HR services industry, and before that for Russchen Consultants. Menno is a former diplomat for the Dutch government in Prague and Aruba. Menno is currently based at the Adecco Group’s headquarters in Zurich.

Didier Bergeret

Director Social Sustainability & GSCP, The Consumer Goods Forum

Didier Bergeret is Director of Social Sustainability and the Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP). The main focus of his work is to develop collaborative and practical solutions for the industry to advance responsible supply chains. He notably supports the implementation of the first industry resolution to fight forced labour in global supply chains recently launched by the CEOs of the Board of the Consumer Goods Forum. This resolution is supported by Priority Industry Principles stating that Every worker should have freedom of movement; No worker should pay for a job; No worker should be indebted or coerced to work. Didier engages stakeholders, institutions and governments with the industry to coordinate efforts on such issues and to drive positive change for companies’ own operations and supply chains.

With professional experience in both private and public organisations, Didier’s expertise lies in building key partnerships to foster sustainable business performance, NGO management, procurement and consulting services for private and public actors. From an educational background in Political Science and International Economics in France, Germany, Spain and the UK, his international experience and language skills serve him well in his daily work.

Jay Celorie

Global Program Manager, Human Rights, HP Inc

Jay Celorie leads the Human Rights Office at HP Inc. Jay also leads the conflict minerals program and responsible mineral sourcing programs. Jay has and continues to engage with a variety of stakeholders on human rights, anti-human trafficking, and responsible minerals. Jay is a part of the Sustainability team at HP, driving programs to implement social responsibility into HP’s products and supply chain, from design and materials through manufacturing, distribution, and end-of-life. 

Jay joined HP in 1998. Prior to his work at HP, he was a Senior Project Manager at CH2M HILL where he directed multi-million dollar environmental remediation projects.  

Jay holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University. Jay is also a registered professional engineer.

Catherine Chen

Director of Investments, Humanity United

Catherine is a Director of Investments focused on leading Humanity United’s work to address human trafficking and exploitation in South Asia and the Middle East. She also leads the Partnership for Freedom, a public-private partnership announced by President Barack Obama and led by HU and key federal government agencies to combat human trafficking.

Catherine has spent more than a decade developing and implementing anti-trafficking programs internationally and in the US. Prior to joining HU, she led a US Department of Justice program to train and build capacity of more than 40 anti-trafficking task forces across the United States to better identify and assist human trafficking victims. She also served as the anti-trafficking and child protection advisor for Save the Children US for several years, including two years working in Indonesia following the Indian Ocean tsunami to prevent child sex trafficking and exploitation of domestic workers.

Catherine began her career as a management consultant at Towers Watson in San Francisco. She received her master’s degree in public health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health with a focus on forced migration, and her bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University.

Suchita Dutta

Executive Director, Indian Staffing Federation

Suchita comes from a background of spearheading roles in marketing communications, technology and research for over 14 years with private and non-profit sectors.

Her experience stems from managing roles in a global staffing firm for establishing & streamlining marketing communications, brand development and technology initiatives. Her experience encompasses strategizing across industries and companies for marketing communications and media management with teams across APAC, EMEA and US. 

She is an alumna of IIM Kolkata (Strategic Management) as an advanced degree, Post Graduate of Marketing communications and an honors graduate of Economics and Psychology.

Tristan Forster

Founder & CEO, FSI Worldwide

Tristan is the founder, CEO and major shareholder of FSI Worldwide (FSI). He is also a founder and former Chairman of the UK charity Freedom Matters, a non-profit organization focused on the rescue and rehabilitation of Nepalese children who have been victims of human trafficking.

From FSI's inception in 2006 to its current strength providing Security Services and ethical manpower for diverse industries, Tristan has played the leading role. Leveraging his deep understanding of security strategy and operations from lengthy service with British Army Gurkhas, Tristan has built a highly-differentiated, profitable business, marked by annual step change in revenue, contract size, and repeat business metrics. He has grown significant client relationships with government foreign service departments, leading multinationals and NGOs.

Tristan is the lead architect of FSI's unique recruiting, training and contract management model, frequently cited by clients as 'best in class' for quality and efficiency in the provision of manpower from Nepal, India, Kenya and the Philippines. Increasingly this model is being adapted for resources from other countries and in new sectors. This now includes the provision of ethically recruited construction personnel to Qatar and consultancy services to construction companies whose labour supply chains are exposed to labour exploitation.

His work in providing customised offers, rooted in the provision of ethical manpower, free from age-old corrupt practices, has attracted widespread plaudits from clients, humanitarian organisations and employees alike. This includes a UN Global Compact Business Leaders Award presented to Tristan at the World Economic Forum at Davos.

Tristan's career in the British Army spanned 12 years, many continents and diverse operational environments. His final command, as a major, was that of the elite Gurkha Parachute Company.

He served on operations in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo, has in-depth civilian security experience in Iraq and Afghanistan and has worked extensively in Nepal.

Tristan is married with two young boys and lives in Jersey.  As well as founding Freedom Matters Tristan is actively involved in various anti trafficking charities and ex-servicemen organisations.  Tristan is a keen kitesurfer and skier.  His favourite pastime is teaching his boys survival skills and hopes one day to play the guitar well enough to join his brother on stage.

William Gois

Regional Coordinator, Migrant Forum Asia

William Gois is the Regional Coordinator of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), a regional network of migrants' organizations, NGOs, advocates, grassroots organizations and trade unions working to promote the rights and well being of migrant workers and members of their families. As MFA’s regional coordinator he also leads MFA’s recruitment reform campaign through the Open Working Group on Labour Migration and Recruitment a platform working on collective advocacy to bring about positive change in recruitment regimes. He is also the current chair of the Global Coalition on Migration, a coalition of regional and international networks of migrant associations, migrants rights organizations and advocates, trade unions, faith groups and academia, covering every region around the world.

Over the last twenty years, he has been at the forefront of international advocacy efforts engaging and influencing international and multilateral organisations to promote equitable and fair migration and development policies. He works closely with UN Treaty Bodies, with the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Committee on Migrant Workers and other special mandates. He also heads a team of MFA members to the International Labour Conference (ILC) of the International Labour Organization to monitor the development of labour migration issues within the ILO framework.  

Ramzy Haddad

Creative Producer, The Workers Cup

Ramzy Haddad is the Creative Producer of The Workers Cup which premiered on Day 1 of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary competition. Ramzy grew up in a much smaller Qatar before immigrating to Canada to continue his higher education in 1995. After making a start as a Production Assistant in Montreal on feature fiction films, he returned to the boomtown of his youth, Doha, Qatar, and shadowed the director of the first feature length documentary shot there Linda and Ali: Two Worlds Within Four Walls. Ramzy seeks to challenge dominant narratives with his work; in The Workers Cup he embraced the opportunity to bring out the nuances of the migrant workers story in Qatar to the world. Ramzy has directed and produced factual programs for AJE, Discovery and HBO and has covered the migrant workers story extensively in Qatar. He currently lives in Beirut, Lebanon.

Dionne Harrison

Director, Impactt

Dionne Harrison is one of Impactt Limited’s Directors. She has over 13 years’ experience in ethical trade leading our work and teams in UK, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Cambodia and Vietnam, amongst others. Dionne spearheads Impactt’s work to understand workers’ journey and motivations, improve performance of labour users and recruitment agencies and facilitated remediation of vulnerable migrant workers and repayment of fees. Other experience includes strategic advice, stakeholder management, making the links between policy, process and implementation and organisational change projects across various industries.

Frances House

Deputy Chief Executive, Institute for Human Rights and Business

Frances has twenty years’ experience in the field of business and human rights and brings an important blend of strategic planning and practical programme delivery on the ground in a number of regions. In her current role, Frances is responsible for the overall operational management of IHRB as well as having a particular focus on delivery of IHRB’s Migrant Worker programme and its leadership activities with global brands around tackling modern slavery in supply chains. She works closely with IHRB’s trustees on strategy, governance and financial oversight.

Before joining IHRB, Frances was Policy Director at the International Business Leaders Forum, Vietnam Researcher with Human Rights Watch, and worked with the European Commission in Brussels and Vietnam on humanitarian programmes with asylum-seekers. A former trustee of Amnesty International UK, Care International UK and Streetkids International UK, she also sits on IKEA’s Stakeholder Advisory Board.

Kevin Hyland OBE

UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

Kevin Hyland OBE is the first UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, as appointed by the then Home Secretary Theresa May MP. The creation of the Commissioner role is one of the key provisions of the landmark Modern Slavery Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2015.

Mr Hyland spearheads the UK’s fight against modern slavery, with a concerted focus on strengthening law enforcement efforts in the UK and internationally, ensuring that public authorities identify and support victims effectively, and working to prevent modern slavery crimes from occurring in the first place, both in the UK and other source countries. Mr Hyland played a key role in ensuring ending modern slavery was included as a target in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030.

Prior to undertaking this role, Mr Hyland was head of the London Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking Unit, which was internationally recognised for developing best practice in anti-trafficking operations. He has over 30 years’ experience of investigating serious and organised crime and was successful in securing convictions of international organised crime groups behind some of the most challenging cases of slavery and trafficking.

Mr Hyland was also instrumental in the establishment of the Santa Marta Group, a high-level strategic partnership between international law enforcement agencies, the Catholic Church and civil society, which was launched by Pope Francis at the Vatican in April 2014.

Mr Hyland was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for "services to Combating Human Trafficking" in the 2015 New Year Honours.

Ray Jureidini

Professor, Migration Ethics and Human Rights, Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Ray Jureidini is an Australian professor of migration ethics and human rights at the Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. His human and labor rights based research and activism centers on migrant labor exploitation, human trafficking, racism, debt bondage and slavery-like practices in the Middle East. He completed his doctorate in 1986 in economic and industrial Sociology at Flinders University in South Australia. After teaching Sociology in several universities in Australia, he spent 6 years at the American University of Beirut from 1999 where he began researching and publishing on human rights issues concerning migrant domestic workers and conducted the first survey of domestic workers in the region. At the American University in Cairo from 2005-2011, he became director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies and conducted a number of research projects on migrant and refugee issues, including household domestic workers, child domestic workers, Egyptian families of migrant workers abroad and trajectories of Somali and Ethiopian asylum seekers in Yemen, Syria and Turkey. In 2012, Dr Jureidini spent a year as research consultant for the Center of Design Innovation at Qatar Foundation in Doha. He was one of the authors of the Qatar Foundation’s 2013 Mandatory Standards for Migrant Worker Welfare and the author of a 2014 report, Migrant Labour Recruitment to Qatar for the Qatar Foundation. More recently, he authored the ILO White Paper publication, Ways Forward in Fair Recruitment of Low-skilled Migrant Workers in the Asia-Arab States corridor. Dr. Jureidini is also a consultant and advisor on human trafficking, labour recruitment, labour supply chain evaluations and migrant labour reform advocacy.

Theresa Loar

International business and human rights consultant

Theresa Loar has been working at the nexus of business, human rights and diplomacy for over thirty years with leadership positions across corporations, NGOs and the US government.  Most recently, she was Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs at CH2M, a Fortune 500 engineering consulting firm.  In this capacity, she initiated and led a global response to modern slavery issues raised in CH2M infrastructure programs in the Middle East.  She built a team to embed preventive measures in management systems and engaged with governments, clients, NGOs and industry peers to forge effective alliances to prevent slavery in supply chains.

During the Clinton Administration, Ms Loar worked in the White House and the US Department of State to promote and protect women’s human rights under the leadership of First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.  She co-led a presidential task force to develop policy to combat human trafficking and introduced the Prevention, Protection and Prosecution framework into testimony before the US Congress.  She was also the founding president of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, founded by Hillary Clinton to invest in women to improve the world.  As a Foreign Service Officer, Ms. Loar served in diplomatic assignments overseas and in Washington, DC.  She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group and RAD-AID International, a Trustee of the Social Mobility Foundation in London and a member of the Vital Voices DC Council.  She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband, grown sons and their families.

Shawn MacDonald

CEO, Verité

Shawn MacDonald is CEO of Verité, a civil society organization that works to promote workers’ rights in global supply chains through research, consulting, training, assessments, and policy advocacy.  Before his appointment as CEO in 2016, Shawn had led Verité’s research, program, and policy work since 2003.  Shawn has broad international and domestic experience in labor rights, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, workplace health, and multi-sector partnerships. Before joining Verité, he was Director of Accreditation at the Fair Labor Association, Vice President of Ashoka, Senior Advisor at Meridian Group International, and co-founder of the Development and Employment Policy Project. Additionally, he worked for a variety of civil society organizations in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and an AB in History from Harvard University.

Marina Manke

Head of Labour Mobility and Human Development Division, International Organization for Migration

Marina Manke currently heads Labour Mobility and Human Development Division in the Department of Migration Management, IOM Headquarters in Geneva. She joined IOM in 2004 as a migration data specialist at the Vienna Technical Cooperation Centre for Europe and Central Asia. Since then, evidence based migration governance and policy development have become her prime areas of specialization, proven by co-authorship of such flagship publications as “Sharing Data – Where to Start”, “Migration Profiles – Making the Most of the Process”, as well as expert interventions at high-level international and national fora. A certified instructor of the Essentials of Migration Management, Marina Manke has been delivering capacity building and technical support to governments in Europe, Asia, Middle East and the Americas. From 2007 till 2010, she advised the Government of the Russian Federation in her capacity of a manager of a large-scale re-admission programme funded by the EU, Germany and Finland. From 2011 till 2016, Marina Manke worked as a Senior Regional Thematic Specialist on labour mobility and human development at the IOM Regional Office for South-East Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Vienna, Austria. Marina Manke has an M.A in Political Science from the Central European University and a Ph.D in International Relations from Cambridge.

Marcela Manubens

Vice President Social Impact, Unilever

Marcela Manubens is 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 ambitions, specifically driving Unilever agendas on Human Rights and Women’s Empowerment. In 2016, her role was expanded to assume new responsibility for all areas of Supply Chain Social Sustainability in addition to continue leading its human rights agenda.

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 US business in the launching of the Global Report on Child Labour by the ILO at the United Nations. In September 2013 she spoke alongside the UK Foreign Secretary and the UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills at the unveiling of the UK Action Plan to implement the UN Guiding Principles.

Ms Manubens taught Business and Human Rights at Columbia University, New York. She has been a Board, Association and Advisory Group member on various organizations such the Consumer Good’s Forum Social Sustainability Committee, Vice-Chair of the WEF Council on Human Rights; Hillary Clinton's International Council on Women’s Business Leadership (ICWBL) and the Advisory Group on Human Rights to the UK Foreign Secretary.

Ed Marcum

Managing Director, Humanity United

A founding member of the Humanity United team, Ed has for the past decade played a leadership role in the establishment and direction of HU’s work across both the peacebuilding and anti-human trafficking program areas including work in Sudan, South Sudan, Liberia, and Nepal. Ed contributed to the creation of the Freedom Fund and serves as a founding board member. He currently oversees HU’s work addressing forced labor in corporate supply chains.

Ed brings more than 20 years of experience working on issues related to social justice including human rights, entrepreneurship/micro-enterprise development, and non-profit leadership. He has experience working across the for-profit, not-for profit, and public policy arenas. He has held senior management positions at World Links and Global Education Partnership as well as positions at the Oracle Corporation and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ed received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California Berkeley, and his master’s degree in business administration/master of arts from The Wharton School/Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bob Mitchell

Vice-President, Social & Environmental Sustainability, Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition

As VP of Social & Environmental Responsibility at the EICC, Bob leads the strategy development and implementation for environmental and human rights programs for the industry.  He is a 16-year veteran of Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, with over 11 years in sustainability. He was most recently the Director, Global Social & Environmental Responsibility at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading a team of professionals in human rights, supply chain responsibility and conflict minerals, among other issue areas. Bob also served on the EICC Board of Directors for nearly four years and was Vice Chair in 2016. He holds an MBA from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.

Kilian Moote

Project Director, KnowTheChain, Humanity United

Kilian is an expert in supply chain transparency and legal disclosure. He is the Project Director for KnowTheChain, a Humanity United project dedicated to helping businesses and investors understand and address labor abuses within their supply chains. In this role he oversees all aspects of KnowTheChain’s strategy, publications, and business engagement.

In the past, Kilian has facilitated innovation workshops that have helped both private and public sector groups accelerate solutions to challenging supply chain management problems. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies and used that experience to create guidance documents and engagement best practices for national governments, including the US Department of Labor and the European Commission. Prior to joining HU, Kilian conceptualized and led Free2Work, a risk assessment and evaluation tool designed to inform brands how they can reduce human trafficking risks in their supply chains.

As Vice President of Programs for Not For Sale, he oversaw programs in six countries that enhanced the livelihoods of those vulnerable to human trafficking. Kilian’s work is grounded in a deep understanding of the needs and nuances of protecting human rights in decentralized global systems.

Kilian has lectured on sustainable supply chain management and corporate social responsibility at the University of Technology Sydney, and the University of San Francisco, where he developed and taught a new MBA course on Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

John Morrison

Chief Executive Officer, IHRB

John Morrison has extensive experience working with leading companies on issues of corporate responsibility and human rights. He worked previously with The Body Shop International plc and led the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights from 2003 to 2009. He has also worked for a number of civil society and governmental organisations on issues of migration, human trafficking and forced labour.

John has acted as an advisor to a number of governments during their presidencies of intergovernmental organisations and has chaired a wide range of conferences and initiatives in many parts of the world.

Michael Murphy

Chief Executive Officer, Daruna

After successful careers in the Armed Forces and as a Certified Financial Manager at Merrill Lynch, in 2005 Murphy launched Global Building Solutions, (www.globalbuilding.net) a manufacturer of Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). Since then, GBS has grown from a regional manufacturer to an international design/build firm with manufacturing, design/build and construction interests in the United States, Middle East, Caribbean, and Africa. GBS projects range in scope from the hundreds of thousands to the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Murphy is an honors graduate of The Citadel, Military College of South Carolina and served as a commissioned combat arms officer in the US Army. He served as Protocol Specialist and Spokesman for The Citadel, and went on to serve in the enviable position of Special Aide in the Office of United States Senator Ernest F. Hollings.

With an extensive education and background, coupled with an ongoing, perpetually developing sphere of Presidential, Princely, Governmental and Ministerial contacts he manages a core contact group of businessmen, military leaders, statesmen and foreign dignitaries that he cultivates to this day.

In 2013 he arrived in Qatar to develop high-quality Workers’ Accommodation Villages that comply with International and Qatari Standards, including Qatar Foundation’s Mandatory Standards for Migrant Workers’ Welfare (2013).

Murphy serves on the Corporate Boards of: Daruna for Real Estate Brokerage (Qatar); The Fermoy Group (USA); Security Resources Limited (UK); Gozump, Inc. (USA); Global Procurement & Supply (UAE); and on Non-Profit Boards of The Haile Selassie Fund for Ethiopian Children (USA) and The Citadel Catholic Endowment Board (USA). He is a former Governor of the American College of Heraldry and former Commissioner of the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry.

Louise Nicholls

Head of Human Rights, Marks & Spencer

Louise Nicholls leads M&S Corporate Human Rights as well as Food Sustainability and Food Packaging Technology teams. M&S is currently ranked as the leading Global business for both Food and Apparel by the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark. 

Louise’s background is more than 25 years in M&S initially as Food Technologist, then worked in HR, IT before establishing the Foods ethical trade and sustainability team. She was part of the small ground breaking team that developed M&S award winning Plan A, eco and ethical plan.

Louise has held board roles in Ethical Trading initiative 2004-2007, Global Social Compliance Programme board 2011- 2013 LOCOG stakeholder oversight 2010-2013 and IHRB leadership group 2016 - ongoing. 

Louise founded SEDEX and sat on the Board from inception (2001) until April 2016, as well as chairing Sedex stakeholder Forum which developed the most widely used ethical auditing methodology. A key part of her role is interaction with a wide range of stakeholders and suppliers. In the last 12 months, she has travelled to America, South Africa, Kenya and Europe meeting with over 800 suppliers and local stakeholders to understand their issues and perspectives.

Greg Priest

Head of Sustainability Policy, Inter IKEA Group

Greg has been a key figure in the development of IKEA Group sustainability strategy, “People and Planet Positive”.  He leads the development, integration and compliance of sustainability approaches, policies and standards including the IKEA supplier code of conduct, IWAY. 

An ongoing priority is the integration of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights with a special focus on issues related to the ethical recruitment of migrant workers, living wage and children’s rights.  Greg is also responsible for Inter IKEA’s external engagement on sustainability and for developing partnerships to support the company’s social and environmental goals.

Greg has been working in the sustainability area for the past 18 years, with both a consumer facing and supply chain focus. He has been on the board and advisory group of several global sustainability related initiatives.

Greg is Canadian and lives in Sweden with his wife and son. He has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, with a major in Business Sustainability.

Mustafa Qadri

Executive Director, Equidem Research

Mustafa Qadri is the Founder and Executive Director of Equidem Research and Consulting, a specialist human rights and labour rights investigations consultancy. He is a human rights research and advocacy expert with over 15 years of interdisciplinary experience in government and public international law, journalism and the non-governmental sector. Mustafa is the author of several landmark human rights reports into the construction industry, civil and political rights issues, and media freedom, including most recently The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game – the first independent human rights investigation to uncover labour abuse on Qatar 2022 World Cup construction sites.

Mustafa has carried out human rights investigations, advocacy and training on several countries including Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE, UK, and USA. He has worked at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (Australia), the Attorney-General’s Department of Australia, and the Pilbara Native Title Service. As a journalist reporting for The Guardian (UK), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and others, he has carried out investigations in the Middle East and South Asia. Before founding Equidem, Mustafa was a senior human rights researcher with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Rachel Rigby

Deputy Division Chief for Research and Policy, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, US Department of Labor

Rachel Phillips Rigby is Deputy Division Chief for Research and Policy in the US Department of Labor’s Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT), where she has worked since 2005.  She initially managed grants to combat child labor in the South Asian subcontinent and conducted research on child labor and forced labor in that region.  Since 2007, she has managed the development and publication of the Department’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, mandated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor pursuant to Executive Order 13126.  She is also the lead author of the Department’s 2012 publication, Reducing Child Labor and Forced Labor:  A Toolkit for Responsible Businesses.  Ms. Rigby’s background includes several years in the nonprofit sector with international microfinance and public health organizations.  She holds an MBA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, a BA from Grinnell College, and has studied and volunteered abroad in Switzerland, France, England, and Bolivia. 

Jan Saumweber

Senior Vice President, Responsible Sourcing, Walmart

Jan Saumweber joined Walmart in September 2013 as Vice President of Responsible Sourcing.  Prior to that, she spent 25 years in Sales and Marketing for Consumer Products companies.  Most recently, she was Senior Vice President, Global Wal-Mart Team, for Sara Lee Corporation.  Prior to that assignment, she served in leadership roles in both sales and marketing at Sara Lee.  Before joining Sara Lee, Jan was an executive with ConAgra Frozen Foods and the Minute Maid division of The Coca-Cola Company.

Jan is currently a member of BYU’s Marriott School of Management National Advisory Council and served on the board of directors for Enactus (formerly Students in Free Enterprise).  She also serves on the board of directors for the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.  

Jan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Jan and her husband, Les, have three children.  They enjoy sailing, scuba diving, gardening and cooking, traveling and working out.

Eric-Paul Schat

Senior Director Sustainability, Environment, Health & Safety, NXP Semiconductors

Eric-Paul Schat has thirty years of experience in the electronics industry in a variety of functions including 10+ years in social responsibility, environment, health and safety. He has on the ground, practical, experience with managing factories and workers in Asia (Taiwan, Japan & Philippines) and Europe.

Eric-Paul is passionate about maintaining safe working conditions, minimizing the environmental impact of the industry, and making sure that all workers in the industry are treated humanely and with respect. He is designer & implementer of NXP Semiconductors’ corporate social responsibility programs, and is a certified EICC-VAP auditor with practical experience in executing and managing audits.

Eric-Paul has extensive experience with managing different cultures and representing the industry in global platforms, associations and vis-a-vis governments and authorities.

In November 2016, the Thomson Reuters Foundation awarded NXP with the Stop Slavery Award in the “Policy and Implementation” category.

David Schilling

Senior Program Director - Human Rights, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

David Schilling joined the staff at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) in 1994 and has worked with ICCR members and allies to engage corporations, cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder initiatives on human rights in corporate operations and global supply chains.  He has participated in delegations to a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America visiting factories and meeting with workers and non-governmental organizations.  For the past ten years, David has provided staff leadership for ICCR’s programmatic initiatives to counter human trafficking and modern day slavery in the US and globally.

David is coordinator of ICCR‘s  Bangladesh Investor Initiative, a global collaboration in support of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety, a member of the Steering Committee of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment, the Advisory Group of the newly formed EICC’s Responsible Labor  Initiative and former chair of the Advisory Board of the Global Social Compliance Program.

David has a bachelor's degree from Carroll College in Wisconsin in philosophy and religion; masters of divinity from Union Theological Seminary; a graduate of the International Fellows Program, Columbia University and has an advanced professional studies certificate from Pacific School of Religion.

David Segall

Policy Associate, NYU Stern, Center for Business and Human Rights

David Segall is a research scholar and policy associate with the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. The Center, based at New York University’s Stern School of Business, is a pro-rights, pro-business organization that conducts research and advocacy on issues at the intersection of these two realms. At the Center, David focuses on the recruitment and migration of construction workers from South Asia to the Arabian Gulf region. From 2012 to 2015, David directed the Human Rights in Iran Unit at The City University of New York, which supported the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. From 2010 to 2012 he served as an Associate in the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, and from 2009-2010 he was a research assistant at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Sarah Tesei

Director of Social Innovation and Human Rights, Vinci

Elana Tyrangiel

Director and Associate General Counsel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Elana Tyrangiel serves as Director and Associate General Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where she leads the Social and Environmental Responsibility team in the Ethics and Compliance Office. Prior to joining HPE, Ms Tyrangiel worked at the United States Department of Justice in a variety of capacities, including Deputy Associate Attorney General, head of the Department’s Office of Legal Policy, and Assistant United States Attorney. Ms Tyrangiel also worked on ethics and regulatory reform issues in the Office of the White House Counsel in 2009. Ms Tyrangiel graduated from Brown University with a degree in political science and earned her law degree from the University of Michigan. 

Enes Ün

Director-EMEA, Social and Environmental Affairs, adidas

Hüdaverdi Enes Ün, Director-EMEA, Social and Environmental Affairs - adidas, has been working in the field of social and environmental compliance in supply chains since 2003. He started as a field auditor to monitor and mitigate/remedy non-compliances in textile factories in EMEA. By time, being a teacher previously, focused more on capacity building and sustainability through establishing effective delivery and implementation of management systems in supply chains. Having a solution oriented mindset, looked beyond the existing methodologies and always supported the idea of empowering workers for a better workplace and collaboration with stakeholders for sustainable solutions to merging issues. Three recent projects he is deeply involved in nowadays are the engagements and collaborations with various stakeholders in EMEA to address issues around the employment and integration of Syrian Refugees in the region, wage discrepancies in Georgia, and FoA related issues in Egypt.

Dan Viederman

Managing Director, Humanity United

Dan Viederman is a Managing Director at Humanity United, focused on efforts to engage entrepreneurs and tech innovators in pursuit of new tools to scale improvements for vulnerable workers in global supply chains.

Before joining HU, Dan was CEO of Verité, a leading non-profit organization working against global forced and child labor through in-depth research and corporate engagement. In recognition of Verité’s impact, Dan was winner of a 2007 Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was named Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011. He has also managed China offices for World Wildlife Fund and Catholic Relief Services.

Dan is a graduate of Yale University, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the Chinese language program at Nanjing Teacher’s University.

Lara White

Senior Labour Migration Specialist, International Organization for Migration

Lara White is the Senior Labour Migration Specialist for the Labour Mobility and Human Development (LHD) division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), based in Geneva, where she provides technical and policy guidance related to temporary and permanent labour migration. She also acts as the division’s primary liaison with the private sector and other governmental, intergovernmental or civil society stakeholders on the protection of migrant workers’ rights throughout the labour migration process, including the promotion of ethical labour recruitment practices. In this capacity, she is one of the principle architects of the International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS), a voluntary multi-stakeholder certification process for international labour recruiters.

Before joining IOM, Lara worked for the Government of Canada, bringing with her extensive experience in policy development and implementation of labour market programs administered by Economic and Social Development Canada (ESDC).  Most recently she was manager of the operations unit of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), charged with the national implementation of federal legislation, regulations and policies governing the program.  Prior to this, she was the senior policy analyst for the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), a bilateral managed migration program designed to facilitate the movement of temporary foreign workers in the Canadian agricultural sector.  Additionally, she has worked in several divisions of the Employment Insurance program as a policy analyst, adjudicator and training development officer.

Brent Wilton

Director, Global Workplace Rights, The Coca-Cola Company

Having trained as a labor lawyer in New Zealand, Brent has spent the last 28 years representing companies and their representative organizations across a range of labor and human rights issues in countries around the world.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola as director of Global Workplace Rights in April of 2015, for the last 15 years, Brent has been based in Switzerland with the International Organization of Employers (IOE) representing the interests of business in 150 countries on global labor and social policy matters across the UN and wider multilateral system, particularly within the International Labour Organization. As a result, Brent has directly engaged with Global Union Federations, NGOs, Governments, other stakeholders and opinion makers in the negotiation and resolution of issues.

In particular, Brent was engaged from the outset in the stakeholder discussions that led to the creation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, working closely with Professor John Ruggie and his team, and more recently with the UN Human Rights Working Group on their follow up to the implementation of the Principles. Brent also served on the Board of the UN Global Compact in his last role as IOE Secretary General and was co-chair of their multi-stakeholder Labor and Human Rights Working Group.