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Explore our library of useful member resources, including implementation toolkits, deep-dive topic briefings and reports, and other valuable content from our global team of sustainability experts. You can also access past video recordings of BSR webinars and events that you may have missed.

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Our Experts

Depth of Experience and Knowledge

Our Focus Area team consists of global experts across multiple focus areas, bringing a depth of experience and knowledge to integrating focus areas and sustainability strategies.

Elisa Niemtzow

Vice President, Consumer Sectors and Global Membership

Paris

Vice President, Consumer Sectors and Global Membership

Paris

Elisa leads BSR’s consumer sectors practice globally and oversees the BSR global membership network. She works with companies in the luxury, beauty, fashion, hospitality, retail, and food industries to better integrate sustainability into core business strategy, products, and operations.

She helps companies understand the world’s big disruptions, create resilient and inclusive business models and practices, and evolve brand strategy to integrate changing consumer expectations. Elisa also leads BSR’s Responsible Luxury Initiative and the Southeast Asia Reptile Conservation Alliance (SARCA).

Prior to joining BSR, Elisa was an account manager at CHANEL and a consultant at Accenture and Ernst & Young.

Elisa is French-American. She holds an M.B.A. in Luxury Goods Marketing and Management from Sup de Luxe, an M.A. in International Relations from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris, and a B.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania.

Francesca Manta

Associate Director, Global Membership

Copenhagen

Associate Director, Global Membership

Copenhagen

Francesca brings more than 12 years of experience in human rights, sustainability management, and responsible supply chains to her work with companies in the infrastructure, financial services, and consumer products sectors. After spending her first years at BSR with the human rights team and successfully leading numerous engagements as Nordics lead in Copenhagen, Francesca is now based in New York City and leads our global membership team.

Prior to joining BSR, Francesca worked at a global Danish retailer, where she was responsible for human rights programs at the corporate and local level. Francesca has also previously worked with the Danish Institute for Human Rights as well as Vestas and Maersk, where she was part of their sustainability teams and helped to establish social compliance systems and managed broader sustainability initiatives such as materiality, reporting, and ethics. She has done field work in East Africa, India, Myanmar, China, and South Korea.

Francesca holds a M.S. in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from LUISS University Rome. She speaks Danish, English, and Italian.

Matthew Charlesworth

Manager, Operations

San Francisco

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Due Diligence Legislation Developments in Europe, Member Briefing

European Commission CSDDD, Member Briefing

Member Insights, 2023 Q2

Governance and Oversight of Just and Sustainable Business

Stakeholder Engagement

AI and Human Rights in Retail

Human Rights Policy Review Tool

Sustainable Aviation Fuel Primer

Hydrogen Primer

Electric Vehicles (EV) Primer

Carbon Capture and Storage Primer

Modern Slavery Member Briefing

Best Practices: Sustainability Governance

Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas Risk Tool

Human Rights Grievance Mechanism Gap Assessment Tool

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Vice President, Consumer Sectors and Global Membership

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Manager, Operations

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