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 leads BSR’s efforts on tackling modern slavery through consulting and the cross-industry collaboration Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and she supports BSR’s consulting and collaborative initiative efforts on human rights, including BSR’s Human Rights Working Group. Shubha has supported companies on a range of human rights consulting projects. Shubha’s engagements include developing human rights policies and strategies, conducting human rights impact assessments, and developing internal human rights management systems. 

Prior to joining BSR, Shubha managed the human rights program at the United Nations Global Compact, where she worked closely with business to provide solutions on various human rights challenges. 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.  

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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. 

With more than 10 years of experience in sustainability, Roberta focuses on the intersection of infrastructure and financial sectors, particularly supporting Industrials and Utilities and Energy and Extractives companies thanks to her knowledge on the sustainability challenges and trends across these sectors’ value chains. She also applies her expertise on human rights and supply chain issues with companies across a variety of industries and is responsible for the global coordination of the Human Rights Working Group.

She has experience with human rights due diligence and impact assessments, code of practice and policy development, sustainability strategy and integration, sustainability reporting, and materiality assessments.

Prior to joining BSR, Roberta spent six years with Enel, a multinational electric utility, as a CSR specialist. She managed projects across various countries, particularly in Latin America, focusing primarily on integrating sustainability into business operations and developing the company's human rights approach. An Italian native speaker, Roberta also speaks English, Spanish, and French fluently.

Roberta holds an M.A. in Economics and CSR and a B.A. in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Trento in Italy.

Jenny leads BSR’s human rights practice across consulting and collaboration.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenny worked at Mercy Corps for over a decade in both field management and advisory roles to better understand, prevent, and mitigate conflict. As the organization’s first Peace & Governance Director in Myanmar and later as the Director of the Peace & Conflict technical advisory team, she launched, built, and implemented programs that aimed to reduce violence, build the preconditions for peace and development, and address critical and emerging threats – from climate change and disruptive technology to poor governance and gender inequality. She has experience in context analysis, stakeholder engagement, mediation and negotiation, project design and implementation, and strategic planning. Jenny has lived and worked in countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. 

Jenny holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.