Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking

Claudio leads BSR’s portfolio on addressing modern slavery, human trafficking, and forced labor. He develops guidance for companies seeking to prevent and mitigate human trafficking and forced labor risks and advances policies to scale impact through BSR’s collaborative initiatives like Tech Against Trafficking, the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and Building Responsibly.

He brings almost two decades of years of experience in managing multidisciplinary programs on criminal justice, human rights, and security in multilateral settings. Prior to joining BSR, he worked at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), establishing and leading the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT). As a senior advisor to the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he oversaw country needs assessments in North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.

Claudio holds a MA in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria and an Executive Certificate from Harvard JFK School of Government in building and leading diverse organizations. He speaks English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Recent Insights From Claudio Formisano

• From Innovation to Impact: Key Takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit / November 19, 2025 / Blog
• Advancing Forced Labor Supply Chain Data Standardization / June 18, 2025 / Reports
• A Launchpad for Action: Key Tech and Human Trafficking Priorities in 2025 / December 19, 2024 / Blog
• From Commitments to Action: A Business Guide to Address Forced Labor Across Value Chains / December 17, 2024 / Insights+
• Building an Effective Supply Chain Data Ecosystem to Prevent Forced Labor / April 24, 2024 / Blog

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Kelly works with BSR member companies to develop sustainability strategies, assess human rights impacts, and engage rightsholders. Her areas of expertise include modern slavery and anti-human trafficking and the rights of workers and communities in the energy transition. Kelly works with companies across industries, including renewable energy and extractives and consumer products.

Prior to joining BSR, Kelly worked as a consultant on various human rights projects, including issues of modern slavery and labor rights in global supply chains. Kelly has also worked extensively on women’s rights, including two years leading a women’s economic empowerment program in Surkhet, Nepal and four years working with the United Nations Foundation on international reproductive health and rights.

Kelly holds an MA in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University.

Recent Insights From Kelly Metcalf

• From Innovation to Impact: Key Takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit / November 19, 2025 / Blog
• Three Approaches for Integrating Human Rights into Company Risk Registers / February 27, 2024 / Blog
• Tech Against Trafficking Summit: Leveraging Technology to Eradicate Forced Labor / December 7, 2023 / Blog
• Just Transition and Modern Slavery / November 28, 2023 / Reports
• Nine Ways to Mitigate Risk of Child Labor Across the Supply Chain / October 4, 2023 / Blog

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Alice works with members across sectors to advance human rights through cross-industry and multi-stakeholder collaboration. She manages several collaborative initiatives, including Building Responsibly, the Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT), and the Healthcare and Human Rights Forum.

At BSR, Alice has supported members in designing and implementing human rights governance, strategy, and due diligence, with a particular focus on anti-trafficking.

Prior to joining BSR, Alice managed a campaign at the British Parliament on an initiative to strengthen the supply chain transparency requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Previously, she had policy and research roles with a human rights focus at the Argentine Council for International Relations, the European Commission, and the Italian National Research Council. Alice is the co-author of Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, published by Polity in 2018.

Alice holds an MA in International Relations: Latin America—Europe from the University of Bologna and an MA in History and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Recent Insights From Alice Pease

• From Innovation to Impact: Key Takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit / November 19, 2025 / Blog
• Advancing Forced Labor Supply Chain Data Standardization / June 18, 2025 / Reports
• A Launchpad for Action: Key Tech and Human Trafficking Priorities in 2025 / December 19, 2024 / Blog
• From Commitments to Action: A Business Guide to Address Forced Labor Across Value Chains / December 17, 2024 / Insights+
• Should ‘Modern Slavery Act’ Implementation be Pushed Back? / August 15, 2023 / News

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Lale focuses on the intersection of human rights and technology, helping companies integrate human rights considerations into their technology products, services, and broader business operations. She specializes in responsible AI, end-use risks of tech products and services, and online platform risks. 

Lale leads BSR's Tech Against Trafficking collaboration, which brings together some of the largest tech companies in the world to advance the use of technology to fight human trafficking and modern slavery, and to address human trafficking on online platforms and in global supply chains. Lale also leads BSR’s new multi-company working group focused on Labor Rights in the AI Data Supply Chain, which aims to promote labor rights for data enrichment workers preparing datasets and training algorithms that form the basis of AI.

Prior to BSR, Lale worked at Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division, where she played a key role in establishing the company's cloud business across Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa. She also worked with the Partnership on AI to help build its AI for Social Good strategy. ​

Lale holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where she focused on responsible business practices. She received a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Recent Insights From Lale Tekişalp

• Taking a Responsible Approach to AI: A Guide for Business / March 5, 2026 / Insights+
• From Innovation to Impact: Key Takeaways from the 2025 Tech Against Trafficking Summit / November 19, 2025 / Blog
• Harnessing AI in Sustainability: Emerging Use Cases / September 17, 2025 / Reports
• Protecting Children in the Digital Environment: The Role of Impact Assessments / February 26, 2025 / Blog
• Child Rights Impact Assessments in Relation to the Digital Environment / January 30, 2025 / Reports

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