Elin Wrzoncki is the Department Director for Human Rights and Business at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She joined the Institute in 2014 as a senior adviser on Business and Human Rights. Elin has extensive experience with the intersection between business and human rights and in working directly with various actors including companies, NHRIs and civil society. She has been active in the Working Group of the European Network of NHRIs (ENNHRI) on Business and Human Rights.
Before joining DIHR, she was the Head of the Globalization and Human Rights Desk at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), where she was in particular supporting national human rights NGOs to document business impacts on human rights and advocating for corporate accountability. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Sciences from Sciences-Po in Paris (1999) and from Uppsala University in Sweden (2000).