Jean-Baptiste leads BSR’s consulting and collaboration efforts on human rights in EMEA, including Building Responsibly—BSR’s global initiative to help promote the rights and welfare of workers in the engineering and construction industry.

He also supports companies from a wide range of sectors to conduct human rights impact assessments, develop policies and strategies, deploy training, and engage stakeholders and rights-holders.

Previously, Jean-Baptiste was a staff consultant for Ergon Associates, a U.K.-based labor issues consultancy, where he focused on helping multistakeholder initiatives develop and implement their codes of practice and improve their assurance mechanisms. He also worked for the International Labor Organization in Dakar, investigating child labor issues in Senegal and Burkina Faso.

Jean-Baptiste holds an M.A. in CSR Management from Paris XII University, an LL.M. in Employment Law from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and an LL.M. in Labor Law and Industrial Relations from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shubha brings her expertise to BSR’s consulting and collaboration efforts on human rights, including the cross-industry Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking and Human Rights Working Group.

Prior to joining BSR, Shubha managed the human rights program at the UN Global Compact. In this role, she worked closely with companies across sectors to demystify the business case for human rights and develop guidance on various human rights topics. She also served as legal counsel for the organization under its chief legal officer.

Shubha began her career in business and human rights working on international human rights cases at a Washington, D.C., law firm. In law school, Shubha worked at several human rights organizations and at the U.S. Department of Justice. She also worked in western Kenya on a peace-building and conflict mitigation project funded by the European Union.

Shubha holds a J.D. from New York Law School and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. 

Salah leads BSR’s consulting and collaboration efforts on human rights for companies in New York, including the cross-industry Human Rights Working Group. He supports companies through various human rights projects and has expertise in consumer products, food and agriculture, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. 

Salah’s engagements include developing human rights policies, training programs, and strategies; conducting human rights impact assessments; and implementing field-level projects. 

Prior to joining BSR, Salah worked at a major media conglomerate where he ensured compliance with labor law requirements within the company’s manufacturing supply chain. He also worked with a standard-setting organization that developed the first auditable program for labor standards enforcement in manufacturing. Additionally, he practiced as an attorney in New York City, focusing on civil rights issues.

Salah holds a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science, Spanish, and Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Michigan. He speaks Arabic, English, and Spanish.  

Margaret leads BSR’s global human rights work and brings more than 20 years’ experience working with companies and international institutions to promote sustainable business practices.  

Prior to joining BSR, Margaret held a special appointment from the United Nations as a member of the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Business. She was the working group’s first chair, spearheading the drive to promote measuring states’ and companies’ human rights performance and to increase the capacity of the UN to engage the private sector on human rights.

Before joining the working group, Margaret was the founder and director of the business and human rights department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, where she developed and launched the human rights compliance assessment for companies and grew the department to the largest team of business-focused human rights experts at a national human rights institution. In her capacity at the Danish Institute, she led projects with many global companies to help them integrate human rights into their business strategies and operations, including in complex environments.

Margaret holds a Ph.D. in political science, specializing in international human rights law, from the University of Cambridge. 

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Michaela advises multinational companies on how to drive impact through human rights, sustainability, and multistakeholder collaboration. She specializes in the intersection of tech and human rights and covers the cross-industry implications of issues like privacy, security, and free expression. 

She also supports the cross-industry Human Rights Working Group and Building Responsibly.

Before joining BSR, Michaela was awarded the CORO Fellowship in Public Policy, through which she drove cross-sector collaboration among government, business, labor, and nonprofit organizations. She has also done field research in West Africa to examine the use of mobile phones and educational apps by women-led microfinance and savings groups. She has additional experience with an international policy firm helping companies open, access, and expand into international markets in the food, beverage, and agriculture sectors. She is proficient in French.

Michaela holds a B.A. in International Relations and a B.A. in Economics from University of California, Davis. 

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Peter leads BSR’s consulting and collaborative initiative efforts on human rights, including BSR’s cross-industry Human Rights Working Group. He has supported companies through a range of human rights consulting projects, with expertise in the information and communications technology, extractives, food and agriculture, and financial services industries.

Peter’s engagements include conducting human rights impact assessments, developing human rights policies and strategies, and implementing field-level projects involving internal capacity-building, stakeholder and rights-holder engagement, and internal human rights management system development.

Prior to joining BSR, Peter was an attorney at an international law firm based in the United States. He spent significant time in China working as a journalist with the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a freelance strategy consultant in Shanghai.

Peter holds a J.D. from the University of Washington and a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College, and speaks Mandarin Chinese and English.