Speakers

Prof. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is a Professor at Geneva University’s School of Economics and Management and directs the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights. Since 2013, she has also served as the Research Director at the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. In these roles, she works with companies to advance human rights in corporate practice. Dorothée’s applied research focuses on embedding human rights in organizations and developing business models that enable profits and human rights principles to coexist. She also teaches business and human rights and co-edited the first textbook on the topic (Routledge 2016). In 2016, she co-founded the Global Business School Network’s Business and Human Rights Impact Community (GBSN for BHR) to integrate human rights in business education as well as the Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit (BHR YRS) for emerging scholars. She earned her PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) at the University of Zurich in 2010 while working for the Fair Labor Association, a multi-stakeholder initiative with the mission to improve labor rights in global supply chains.