Powering a Just Transition through Electrification

BSR Members Only

London

June 25, 2026

9:30 - 10:30 am BST

Registration

As electricity becomes central to economic growth and everyday life, this shift offers a critical opportunity to ensure the benefits of cleaner, more reliable energy systems are shared broadly. Electrification is not only a technological shift—but also a pathway to more inclusive economies that support decent work, affordable services, and long-term resilience.

As electricity increasingly underpins transport, building infrastructure, light and medium industries, and digital services, it is transforming energy from a source of volatility into a driver of stability and opportunity. Beyond reducing emissions, electrified systems can improve energy affordability and security, strengthen competitiveness, and enhance health outcomes, creating value for businesses, workers, and communities alike.

Learn how your company can help scale electrification in equitable and inclusive ways that align with enterprise priorities. Through a facilitated discussion as part of the We Mean Business Electric Advantage program, explore implementation challenges, sector-specific insights, and emerging solutions—from skills development to affordable products and responsible supply chains. Exchange perspectives and help to start shaping an electrified future that delivers shared prosperity and lasting impact.

Scheduled Speakers

Paloma Muñoz Quick, Director, Human Rights and Inclusive Business, BSR

Director, Human Rights and Inclusive Business, BSR

Copenhagen

Paloma leads BSR’s work on Human Rights Standards, including standard-setting, knowledge management, and helping companies respond to emerging standards and regulation. She is also Senior Advisor to BSR’s Finance & Human Rights Practice.

Prior to joining BSR, Paloma was Advisor to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Senior Consultant of the UN B-Tech Project, where she developed a vision for promoting the uptake of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights among investors and guidance on responsible investment in digital technologies. Prior to the UN, Paloma launched and led the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, where she developed thought leadership on the investor responsibility to respect human rights and supported stewardship engagements across industries. She also worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights advising companies, governments, and civil society on business and human rights.

Paloma is a member of the US government’s Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. She sits on the Editorial Board of Developments in the Field of the Business and Human Rights Journal of Cambridge University.

She holds a Master of International Affairs (M.I.A.) in Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science, also from Columbia University.

Paloma is Chilean-American and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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Beatriz Osorio Marugán, Manager, BSR

Manager, BSR

Paris

Beatriz is part of the nature and climate change teams, aiming at strengthening and developing BSR’s nature offering as well as tapping into the interconnectedness between these two areas and crafting solutions that uplift members’ climate and nature commitments and their overall impact.

Prior to joining BSR, Beatriz was the Consulting Director and Board Member at the Paris branch of a global social impact student consultancy, where she managed a range of missions, especially within the education, consumer, and financial sectors. She also worked for over two years as a public sector consultant at EY Madrid, where she mostly assisted public bodies in project definition, strategy, and implementation under the European Regional Development Fund scheme, participating in a wide array of projects focusing on social inclusion, the circular economy, green mobility, and smart cities.

Beatriz holds a MS in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris, a MS in Management Consulting from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and a BSc in International Management and Modern Languages (IMML) from the University of Bath. She speaks Spanish, English, and French.