Juggling Human Rights And Business Priorities - Striking A Balance Between People, Planet And Profit

Caroline Rees is President of the non-profit organization Shift - the leading center of expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Shift works with companies, governments, international and civil society organizations to put the Guiding Principles into practice. Caroline was a lead advisor to Professor John Ruggie, author of the Guiding Principles, during his UN mandate. From 2009 to 2011 she directed the Governance and Accountability Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. Caroline previously spent 14 years as a British diplomat, latterly representing the UK in the UN Human Rights Council, where she chaired its first negotiations on business and human rights.