Jen Herink

Senior Manager, Human Rights, Responsible Business Practices

Microsoft

Jen Herink is Senior Manager, Human Rights on Microsoft’s Responsible Business Practices team, where she leads external stakeholder engagement to help the company understand and address human rights impacts across its global value chain. In this role, she develops and manages engagements with civil society organisations, international institutions, and subject matter experts; leads Microsoft’s Human Rights Advisory Council operations; and helps shape strategic partnerships focused on responsible AI, cybersecurity, and human rights due diligence.

She previously worked on Microsoft’s Democracy Forward team, where she helped develop a strategy to strengthen corporate civic responsibility and employee civic participation.

Before Microsoft, Jen served at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Myanmar, leading programs to strengthen economic and democratic governance in the areas of elections, human rights, anti-human trafficking, rule of law, and responsible business practices.  She worked closely with governments, civil society organisations, and international institutions to advance policy reforms and expand civic participation during a period of significant political transition.

Earlier in her career, Jen worked as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an independent consultant supporting USAID-funded initiatives, United Nations agencies, and international nonprofit organisations across Asia. Her work focused on economic development, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and organisational effectiveness.

A graduate of William & Mary, Jen is the Vice-Chair of William and Mary’s Reves Global Engagement Board.