Webinar on 'The future of business and human rights under the Trump Administration'

Join Macquarie University's Business & Human Rights Access to Justice Lab via zoom for an online webinar on 'The future of business and human rights under the Trump Administration'. The webinar will be moderated by Professor Surya Deva, Director, B&HR Access to Justice Lab, featuring panellists Ms Joanne Bauer, Co-Founder, Rights CoLab; and Ms Marti Flacks, BHR practitioner and former US Government official.

How are the business and human rights initiatives in the United States (US) likely to change under the new US Administration? Will the Trump Administration's stance towards business and human rights have impacts on legal and policy initiatives beyond US borders? Are US businesses and investors able to speak out for human rights, diversity, equity and inclusion, and climate change? To gain insights on some of these issues, join a moderated conversation with two leading experts.

Joanne Bauer is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and Co-Founder of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. In 2018, she Co-founded, Rights CoLab, which seeks to incubate outside-the-box solutions to closing civic space and pressing human rights challenges. At Rights CoLab, Joanne focuses on leveraging finance for corporate accountability, including better integrating human rights into investor backed sustainability standards. Current Rights CoLab projects include working to combat the ESG backlash in the US.

Marti Flacks served in the US Government for more than a decade at the White House, State Department, and most recently Commerce Department, working on a range of human rights, governance, and economic and national security issues. Outside government, she has served as Khosravi Chair in Principled Internationalism and Director of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as Deputy Director and Head of the North America Office of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.