Summit speakers, made up of keynotes, business and investment leaders and practitioners will:
• Provide overall context and emphasise the importance of this issues to be discussed
• Speak about their own experience and challenges and reinforce the need to engage with this agenda as a key concern for all business
• Set out and share examples of the challenges, what is happening and what could be done
David Abramowitz, vice president for policy and government relations, Humanity United
David is vice president for policy and government relations at Humanity United. He previously served as chief counsel to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked on the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and the Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. David worked at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State for 10 years on arms control, the Middle East, and legislation relating to foreign relations.
Motoko Aizawa, international expert on ESG sustainability and human rights
Motoko is an expert on environmental, social and governance dimensions of sustainability, as well as policy initiatives to help governments and companies improve their sustainability performance, particularly in the financial and extractives sectors. Motoko played a leading role in the International Finance Corporation and then the World Bank looking at the way financial incentives and safe-guards can be developed for a range of environmental and social issues - but in particular human rights. She is the principal author of the 2006 IFC Performance Standards, and the human rights provisions in the 2012 version of these Standards.This work has also affected the commitments made by a broad range of companies, such as the 'Equator Principles' signatory banks and the IFC Performance Standards are now the benchmark for the OECD as well as many export credit agencies around the world.
Nazma Akter, executive director, AWAJ Foundation
Nazma is one of the most respected labour leaders in Bangladesh. A former garment worker herself, she founded AWAJ Foundation in 2003 – Awaj means "Voice" in Bangla. This innovative foundation seeks to promote the welfare of workers, and in particular women garment workers, employed throughout Bangladesh and migrant workers returning home. AWAJ offers health care and legal advice and support to workers. They undertake programmes to create awareness and provide training regarding workers' rights and responsibilities, environmental pollution and occupational health and safety. They also seek to foster better relationships between factory management and workers to avoid confrontation and disputes and build public awareness and take legal action against sexual harassment, rape, and human trafficking.
Beate Andrees, head of special action programme to combat forced labour, ILO
Beate has ten years of experience managing projects in the field of core labour standards, in particular forced labour and human trafficking. Beate has played a key role in the expansion of the Special Action Programme through research, development of training tools and policy guidance. Published widely on trafficking and forced labour issues, she is co-editor of the book "Forced labour: Coercion and exploitation in the private economy". Beate currently leads the Work In Freedom Programme which includes the fair hiring initiative which seeks to prevent the trafficking and exploitation of women and girls from India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Jean Baderschneider, chair, Global Leadership Council, Polaris Project
Jean serves on the board of Polaris Project where she is focused on a global anti-human trafficking strategy (Vision 2020). She is also working with Made in a Free World to engage the business community in a supply chain risk assessment initiative. She recently became an operating partner and advisory board member of Tau Investment Management, focused on social transformation of global supply chains.
With 35 years of business experience, Jean retired from ExxonMobil in 2013 where she was vice-president, Global Procurement. She had global responsibility for all procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, warehousing and accounts payables. Over the years, Jean has travelled and worked extensively all over the world, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Jean has a masters degree from University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She is the recipient of Cornell's 2013 Jerome Alpern Award and Nomi Network's 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility Award.
Tristan Forster, chairman, FSI Worldwide
Tristan is the founder and chairman of FSI Worldwide (FSI). From FSI's inception in 2006 to its current strength providing manpower for diverse industries, Tristan has built a highly-differentiated, profitable business based around ethical recruitment, whose clients include 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 other countries and in new sectors. 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.
Dr Liliya Gelemerova, enhanced due diligence manager, Finance Against Trafficking
Liliya is a member of the Steering Committee of Finance Against Trafficking (affiliated with Stop the Traffik) and enhanced due diligence Manager at the Royal Bank of Canada, London. Formerly head of international contacts and legal coordination at Bulgaria's Financial Intelligence Unit, Liliya has a background in financial intelligence that includes many years of training in anti-money laundering practices. After a spell at Transparency International in Berlin, in 2004 Liliya moved to London where she worked for several investigative consultancy firms, managing a wide range of due diligence and financial crime investigation projects, prior to joining the Royal Bank of Canada.
Carmel Giblin, chief executive, Sedex
Carmel is the CEO of Sedex and has been with the organisation since April 2010. Sedex was created in 2004 in response to an increasing need for greater transparency across complex global supply chains.
Now the world's largest collaborative platform for managing ethical supply chain data, Sedex has succeeded in ensuring that this needed transparency has become a reality without placing huge burdens on supplying organisations and as a result the lives of millions of workers worldwide have improved.
Before joining Sedex Carmel was head of corporate responsibility and accessibility at the UK's largest digital broadcaster Sky. Here she developed their responsibility strategy, part of Sky's Bigger Picture programme. Prior to Sky Carmel worked across many sectors in a variety of roles including those of buyer at retailers Somerfield, Waitrose and Exxon Mobil and in supplier organisations including Britvic Soft Drinks and Allied Domecq in roles that included customer management, risk management and organisational design and effectiveness reviews.
Kohl Gill, chief executive, LaborVoices Inc
Kohl, a quantum physicist turned social entrepreneur, founded LaborVoices in 2010 after observing local labour conditions while working in several South Asian countries as a labour affairs and CSR officer with the U.S. Department of State. He has led LaborVoices to several awards, including the Echoing Green Fellowship in 2013. LaborVoices has developed a platform for engaging supply chain workers via mobile phones, for long-term two-way communication, and a methodology for sharing crowd-sourced supply chain intelligence among workers, suppliers, consumer brands and consumers, themselves. LaborVoices prevents trafficking and other labour abuses, while improving supply chain operations.
Isabel Hilton, journalist, the Guardian
Isabel is an international journalist, broadcaster and columnist for The Guardian. She previously worked for the Daily Express and the Sunday Times before joining the launch team for The Independent in 1986. In 1992 she became a presenter of the BBC's flagship news programme, The World Tonight. In 1999 she joined the New Yorker as a staff writer. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, Index on Censorship and many other publications. Isabel is CEO of independent online media platform Chinadialogue.net.
Aidan McQuade, director, Anti-Slavery International
During Aidan's tenure as director, Anti-Slavery's achievements have included holding the state of Niger to account in an international court for failing to protect its citizens from slavery, obtaining a new statute in British law proscribing forced labour, and mounting a series of investigations identifying where forced labour is used in the production of goods for western markets.
Before joining Anti-Slavery International, Aidan worked for over 13 years in humanitarian response, development and human rights. This included periods working on emergency relief programmes in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Angola.
Stephanie Maier, head of corporate responsibility, Aviva Investors
Stephanie is responsible for the corporate responsibility programme at Aviva Investors. She undertakes engagement on environmental, social and governance ('ESG') issues and leads on the corporate responsibility element of Aviva Investors Corporate Governance and Corporate Responsibility Voting policy. Prior to joining Aviva Investors, she was head of research at EIRIS, where she headed up a team of over 30 researchers and six international research partners providing research on ESG performance of developed and emerging market companies. She has significant experience in assessing corporate responsibility performance. Prior to EIRIS she was at corporate governance consultancy PIRC. In September 2013, Stephanie was elected to the Board of Directors of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association.
Marcela Manubens, global vice president for social impact, Unilever
Marcela leads the livelihoods pillar of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan. She is also responsible for leading the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights at Unilever, with a special focus on women's and economic inclusion and workers throughout the value chain. Prior to joining Unilever, Marcela was chief corporate social responsibility officer at PVH Corp where she established the first global human rights programme in the early 1990s. Marcela was an expert witness in the United States Congress upon the invitation of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.
John Morrison, executive director, Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
John 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.
Randy Newcomb, president and chief executive, Humanity United
Randy is president and CEO of Humanity United, a philanthropic foundation dedicated to building peace and advancing human freedom.
Previously, Randy was a vice president of Omidyar Network, and he served for 14 years as executive director of Golden Gate Community Inc.
Randy was a fellow at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University and an International Development Fellow at the University of Bath, England. He holds a doctor of education from the University of San Francisco and a master of science degree in development economics from the University of Bath.
Louise Nicholls, head of responsible sourcing, Marks & Spencer plc
Louise is head of responsible sourcing, with responsibility for setting strategic direction of Marks & Spencer's Food sustainability plan. Her team work closely with buying teams on a day to day basis with issues as diverse as ethical trade, water stewardship, global community programmes, lean manufacturing and sustainable raw material procurement. Louise is a board member of Sedex and 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 South America, Africa, Asia and Europe meeting with over 1,000 suppliers and local stakeholders to understand their issues and perspectives.
Robert Rigby-Hall, executive vice president and chief human resources officer, NXP Semiconductors
Robert is the executive vice president and chief human resources officer for NXP Semiconductors. NXP is a global semiconductor company with operations in more than 25 countries, 26,000 employees and revenues in excess of US$4 billion. They supply electrical components to all the major technology companies including Apple, Bosch, Continental, Delphi, Nokia, Siemens and Samsung. Robert has over 25 years of global experience as an HR leader for large global corporations in the UK, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the United States. Robert is involved in industry organisations and is a speaker at business conferences around the world. He sits on the advisory boards of Kiddy & Partners. He is the past chair of Boys Town of New York; past chair of the Somaly Mam Foundation; and co-chair of the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking. In 2010 he was awarded the "Business Leader Award" by the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking and UN Global Compact.
Professor John Ruggie, former UN special representative on business and human rights
John, of Harvard University, has served as the UN special representative for business and human rights from 2005-2011. His mandate was to propose measures to strengthen the human rights performance of the business sector around the world. The end result was the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, drafted by John and unanimously endorsed by the U.N. Human Rights Council in June, 2011. As one of the premier authorities on corporate citizenship and responsibility, John has made significant contributions to the study of international relations, focusing on the impact of globalization on global rule making.
David Schilling, senior programme director - human rights and resources, Interfaith Centre for Corporate Responsibility
David has been with ICCR since 1994 and works with ICCR members and allies to engage corporations on issues of human rights in corporate operations and global supply chains, and social, environmental and economic sustainability. He has co-authored, ICCR's Social Sustainability Resource Guide; Effective Supply Chain Accountability: Investor Guidance on Implementation of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and Beyond with CBIS and Calvert and "Investing in the Rights Way: A Guide for Investors on Business and Human Rights. David is chair of the advisory board of the Global Social Compliance Program and member of the International Advisory Network of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.
Steve Trent, executive director, the Environmental Justice Foundation
Steve has worked for 25 years in environmental advocacy, campaigning for the protection of natural resources, the environment and human rights, taking action to bring about tangible positive change and implementing solutions to ensure genuine long-term sustainability. He has conducted investigations and trained environmental and human rights advocates in over 25 countries including China, India, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam and managed media campaigns in over 15 countries. Steve has been involved in campaigns on marine issues, the illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances, illegal wildlife trade and illegal logging, orangutan conservation, illegal pirate fishing and environmental governance. His advocacy experience includes US Congress, European Parliament and Commission, national governments, and at a range of international conventions including the Montreal Protocol, the Commission on Sustainable Development and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
The Environmental Justice Foundation, where Steve is currently executive director, aims to address both environmental abuses and the human rights violations that so often go with them, understanding that in the 21st century the protection of our natural heritage and of human rights must go hand-in-hand.
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