Dunstan leads BSR’s work at the intersection of technology and human rights.
Previously, Dunstan led BSR’s information and communications technology, heavy manufacturing, and human rights teams.
He brings significant experience working on a diverse range of engagements and issues, including human rights due diligence, privacy and freedom of expression, sustainability reporting and strategy, and stakeholder engagement.
Dunstan facilitated the multistakeholder process of developing global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. He also helped create the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a collaborative initiative of more than 100 ICT companies improving conditions in their supply chains. Dunstan participated in the process of creating the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines, and he is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, reporting, and human rights. He also co-authored the 2010 book Big Business, Big Responsibilities.
Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications' corporate responsibility team.
Dunstan has an M.Prof. in Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.
Insights From Dunstan Allison-Hope
- Effective Engagement with Technology Companies / May 23, 2024 / Reports
- 25 Insights, 25 Years / April 17, 2024 / Blog
- Human Rights and the Future of Compliance with Dunstan Allison-Hope / November 28, 2023 / Audio
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Tech Coalition’s Lantern Program / November 7, 2023 / Blog
- Tech Coalition Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Lantern Program / November 7, 2023 / Reports
- How New Regulations Are a Game-Changer in Just and Sustainable Business / June 1, 2023 / Insights+
- Twitch Human Rights Impact Assessment / April 18, 2023 / Reports
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Twitch / April 18, 2023 / Blog
- Human Rights Due Diligence of Meta’s Impacts in Israel and Palestine in May 2021 / September 22, 2022 / Blog
- “And” May Be the Most Important Word / September 14, 2022 / Blog
- Human Rights Everywhere All at Once / September 8, 2022 / Blog
- How the SEC Can Mandate Climate-Related Disclosures and Drive Corporate Action / June 8, 2022 / Blog
- A Human Rights Assessment of Meta’s Expansion of End-to-End Encryption / April 4, 2022 / Blog
- Applying the UNGPs to Technology: Our Point of View / March 7, 2022 / Blog
- Impact-Based Materiality / February 3, 2022 / Blog
- The Stars Are Aligning / October 8, 2021 / Blog
- Human Rights Are Not Just an “ESG Factor” / September 23, 2021 / Blog
- Human Rights Impact Assessment: Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism / July 20, 2021 / Reports
- A Human Rights Assessment of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) / July 20, 2021 / Blog
- Responsible Product Use in the SaaS Sector / July 15, 2021 / Reports
- The Shared Opportunity to Promote: A Second-Decade Priority for the UNGPs / June 22, 2021 / Reports
- The Case for SEC-Mandated Climate and ESG Disclosure / June 17, 2021 / Blog
- Science: A Human Right for Our Times / April 20, 2021 / Blog
- Beyond Former User @realdonaldtrump: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Governance / March 2, 2021 / Blog
- One Year On: A Human Rights Review of the Oversight Board / December 21, 2020 / Blog
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. / December 15, 2020 / Reports
- COVID-19 and Beyond: Technology, Responsible Decision Making, and Public Health Emergencies / December 15, 2020 / Blog
- Is Your Company Ready for the Future of Reporting? / October 6, 2020 / Blog
- A New Social Contract That Enables Social Justice / July 30, 2020 / Blog
- Why Worker Data Protection Should Be Central to a 21st-Century Social Contract / July 9, 2020 / Blog
- The Business Role in Creating a 21st-Century Social Contract / June 24, 2020 / Reports
- A Post-COVID-19 Agenda for Sustainability Reporting / May 19, 2020 / Blog
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook In Cambodia / May 12, 2020 / Blog
- Sustainability Reporting and Early Lessons from COVID-19 / May 4, 2020 / Blog
- The Urgency of a New Social Contract / April 1, 2020 / Blog
- COVID-19: A Rapid Human Rights Due Diligence Tool for Companies / March 30, 2020 / Blog
- Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Innovative Approaches for the Technology Sector / February 25, 2020 / Blog
- Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Applying UNGPs in the Technology Sector / February 11, 2020 / Blog
- Five Insights on the Future of Reporting from Uber’s Safety Report / January 21, 2020 / Blog
- A Human Rights Review of the Facebook Oversight Board / December 12, 2019 / Blog
- Google’s Human Rights by Design / October 30, 2019 / Blog
- Q&A with BSR Senior Advisor Susan Morgan / October 7, 2019 / Blog
- Responsible Use of Technology / September 20, 2019 / Blog
- Human Rights Insights: Trends from the Human Rights Working Group’s Spring Meeting / July 8, 2019 / Reports
- Is Stakeholder Engagement the Key to Successful Community Standards? / June 19, 2019 / Blog
- Time’s Up: Women Should Be Front and Center of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence / June 3, 2019 / Blog
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: We Need to Talk about the Use Phase / May 15, 2019 / Blog
- Supply Chain Sustainability in a Rapidly Changing World / April 16, 2019 / Blog
- A New Transparency Challenge for Business and Human Rights / February 25, 2019 / Blog
- Five Reporting Trends for 2019: Insights on the Future of Reporting / February 19, 2019 / Reports
- Are You Prepared for the Future of Business and Human Rights? / December 11, 2018 / Blog
- Our Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook in Myanmar / November 5, 2018 / Blog
- Four Reflections on the Human Rights Implications of Artificial Intelligence / October 25, 2018 / Blog
- Artificial Intelligence: A Rights-Based Blueprint for Business / August 28, 2018 / Reports
- A Human Rights-Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence / August 28, 2018 / Blog
- Announcing a New Collaboration Using Tech to Combat Human Trafficking / June 28, 2018 / Blog
- Three Hot Debates in Sustainability Reporting Today / February 5, 2018 / Blog
- A Practitioner’s View of Sustainability Reporting: Challenges and Solutions / February 5, 2018 / Reports
- Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility / Medium / February 1, 2018 / News
- Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World / January 29, 2018 / Reports
- The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On / January 18, 2018 / Blog
- Seven Things Every Company Should Know about Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Business / January 11, 2018 / Blog
- Children’s Rights Online: A Conversation with UNICEF / January 3, 2018 / Blog
- Surveying the Human Rights Landscape: Collaboration on the Rise / December 10, 2017 / Blog
- Remedy against the Machine / December 6, 2017 / Blog
- The Sustainability Reporting Landscape: Q&A with GRI and SASB / November 30, 2017 / Blog
- The Sustainability Form 10-K: A Proposal / November 9, 2017 / Blog
- Introducing the Sustainable Business Playbook / September 26, 2017 / Blog
- Insights from Telia Company’s Human Rights Impact Assessments / July 12, 2017 / Blog
- Human Rights by Design / February 17, 2017 / Blog
- Calling All Sustainability Reporting Practitioners / February 15, 2017 / Blog
- Corporate Transparency under a Trump Administration / February 7, 2017 / Blog
- Rethinking Stakeholder Engagement for the New Millennium: Part I / FCPA Compliance Report / November 1, 2016 / News
- Big Data and Human Rights: 5 Frequently Asked Questions / September 20, 2016 / Blog
- Boldly Moving Beyond the Hype of Hyper-Transparency / August 3, 2016 / Blog
- The Future of Reporting Is Triangular / July 18, 2016 / Blog
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with the IIRC / July 13, 2016 / Blog
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with GRI / June 29, 2016 / Blog
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with SASB / June 24, 2016 / Blog
- The Fallacy of the Apple and Orange Defense for Sustainability Reporting / May 16, 2016 / Blog
- Translating the Climate Agreement into Business Strategies: BSR’s Four-Part Methodology / May 3, 2016 / Blog
- Inclusive by Design: BSR’s Project on Technology and Access in China / December 2, 2015 / Blog
- Can Global Companies Increase Renewables Use in Chinese Supply Chains? / September 16, 2015 / Blog
- How to Fix Reporting / July 24, 2015 / Blog
- Is Reporting Bloated, Burdensome, and Broken? / July 17, 2015 / Blog
- The Internet of Green Electronics / July 13, 2015 / Blog
- Sustainability Reporting: A Love-Hate Story / April 24, 2015 / Blog
- Don’t Forget the Ethics / April 6, 2015 / Blog
- Sustainability in the ICT Industry: Our 2015 Plan / December 15, 2014 / Blog
- Why We Are Measuring Our Impact at BSR / November 21, 2014 / Blog
- How Tech Companies Can Engage with (Billions of) Users on Human Rights / September 17, 2014 / Blog
- Does Transparency Matter? / August 11, 2014 / Blog
- What Vodafone’s New Law-Enforcement Report Says About the Future of Sustainability Reporting / June 11, 2014 / Blog
- Law Enforcement Reporting Shouldn’t Stop with the Telcos / March 10, 2014 / Blog
- Integrated Report, or Integrated Reporting? / September 10, 2013 / Blog
- Navigating the Materiality Muddle / August 13, 2013 / Blog
- Take That, Cynics! As Companies Detail PRISM Involvement, Transparency Proves Its Value / June 18, 2013 / Blog
- In the Era of PRISM, ‘Knowing and Showing’ on Human Rights / June 13, 2013 / Blog
- Planning for GRIIIRCSASB: How to Untangle Sustainability Reporting Strategy / April 25, 2013 / Blog
- What the New Telecommunications Human Rights Principles Mean / March 27, 2013 / Blog
- Microsoft Reports: What ïthe LawÍ Is Asking of Internet Companies / March 22, 2013 / Blog
- My Wish List for the Information and Communications Technology Industry / March 1, 2013 / Blog
- Zero Dark Thirty: The Human Rights Responsibilities of Entertainment Companies / February 24, 2013 / Blog
- An ICT Company’s To-Do List on Human Rights / October 2, 2012 / Blog
- The GRI Misses Some of the Most Important Human Rights Issues of Our Age / August 1, 2012 / Blog
- Taking Ethics to the Cloud / April 10, 2012 / Blog
- Time to Open the Myanmar Office? / April 5, 2012 / Blog
- Top Five Reporting Mistakes (An Unofficial List) / March 15, 2012 / Blog
- Sustainability Reports: Worth the Effort? / February 15, 2012 / Blog
- Transparency in China: A New Generation of Sustainability Reports / January 24, 2012 / Blog
- Integrated Reporting: A New Vision for Disclosure / October 4, 2011 / Blog
- Four Improvements for the Global Reporting Initiative’s ‘G4’ Guidelines / September 20, 2011 / Blog
- VIDEO: How the Tech Sector Should Address Human Rights / August 16, 2011 / Blog
- Four Priorities for the Tech Sector in Applying the New UN Guiding Principles / July 27, 2011 / Blog
- The Danger of ‘Web 2.0’ Enthusiasm for Sustainability Reporting / July 25, 2011 / Blog
- A Letter from San Francisco / May 17, 2011 / Blog
- Technology, Collaboration, and Human Rights: A Slightly Unfair (but Somewhat Useful) Comparison / April 14, 2011 / Blog
- Egypt and the Realization of Human Rights in the Digital Age / February 14, 2011 / Blog
- Egypt and the Complicated Ethics of the Telecommunications Industry / February 1, 2011 / Blog
- Protecting Human Rights in a Networked Age / August 6, 2010 / Blog
- The Big Responsibilities of Big Business / July 20, 2010 / Blog
- What Does the Global Network Initiative Tell Us About the Value of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives? / July 9, 2010 / Blog
- Google and China: When Should Business Leave on Human Rights Grounds? / March 22, 2010 / Blog
- Comparing Like With Like: Privacy, Security, and Content Issues / March 2, 2010 / Blog
- Should You Stay or Should You Go? What’s the ‘Right’ Decision on Entering or Leaving a Market? / February 23, 2010 / Blog
- BSR Debates: Should Sustainability Reporting Be Mandatory? / February 2, 2010 / Blog
- Mandatory Reporting: BSR Debates the Pros & Cons of Requiring Companies to Report on Sustainability / February 2, 2010 / Blog
- Integrating Financial and Corporate Responsibility Reporting / November 10, 2009 / Blog
- ICT as a Sustainability Solution: Moving from Theory to Practice / September 1, 2009 / Blog