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GRI Topic Standard project for Labor
Technical committee member biographies
Sept 2022© GRI 2022

Contents
GRI Topic Standard project for Labor ....................................................................................1
Technical committee members ................................................................................................................3
Zuzanna Muskat-Gorska ......................................................................................................................3Peter Colley ..........................................................................................................................................3
Luis Rodrigo Morales Velez .................................................................................................................4Paul Mackay .........................................................................................................................................5
Emily Sims ............................................................................................................................................6
Yulia Gershinkova ................................................................................................................................6

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Technical committee members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected thefollowing members to participate in the technical committee that will be responsible for reviewing theLabor disclosures in the GRI Standards. The members represent diverse, multi-stakeholder
backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge and experience in Labor.

Zuzanna Muskat-Gorska
Legal Officer for the International Trade Union
Confederation (ITUC). Belgium
Constituency: Labor
Zuzanna Muskat-Gorska works as Legal Officer for theInternational Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). She
supports the organization’s legal advocacy before theInternational Labour Organization and other international
institutions and advises trade unions on labour law andpolicy. She cooperates with the Institute for Labour Law ofthe Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) as externalscientific collaborator. She holds LLM in international andEU law from the KU Leuven; MA in sociology of law fromthe Oñati IISL (Spain); MA in industrial sociology from theUniversity of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); and Masterof Laws from the UAM University, Poznan (Poznan).

Peter Colley
National Research Director Construction,Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union,
Australia
Constituency: LaborPeter has over 30 years' experience with Australian andglobal unions in research and advisory roles aroundeconomic policy, trade, investment, taxation and theenvironment. Active in climate change policy since theearly 1990s, his involvement in sustainability reporting
began over concerns about the accuracy and reliability ofhuman rights and labour practices reporting.
Peter was nominated by Global Unions to the GRI’s
Stakeholder Council from 2011 to 2017. Peter has since2019 been nominated by Global Unions to the GRI GSSB.
He has represented Australian unions on the Australianpilot and implementation phases of the global Extractive
Industries Transparency Initiative. He has provided expertopinion to the Responsible Mining Index and the Initiativefor Responsible Mining Assurance. Peter holds a Masters
in Economics from the University of Sydney.

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Luis Rodrigo Morales Velez
Senior Advisor at the International Organizationof Employers
Constituency: Business Enterprise (IOE)
Luis Rodrigo is Senior Advisor at the International
Organization of Employers since 2019. As such, he has has
been involved in different policy areas, such as industrial
relations, freedom of association, the ILO supervisory
mechanisms, the future of work, social protection, businessand human rights, among others.
From 2013 to March 2019, he served as Minister of Labour
Affairs in Europe for the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfareof Mexico at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United
Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. As such, he was responsibleof providing legal advice to the government on international
labour regulation and policy. He represented the governmentof Mexico in various international forums such as: theInternational Labour Organization (ILO) the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World
Trade Organization (WTO), the G20, the International
Organization for Migration (OIM), and the Global Forum onMigration and Development (GFMD).
He has participated in various negotiation processes
regarding labour policy at the international level, such as therevision of the Multinational Enterprises Declaration of theILO, the ILO Standards Review Mechanism and theCommittee to adopt the methodology to measure SDG 8.8.1
among others.
Luis Rodrigo holds a law degree from the Universidad
Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico and a master’s degree
in international business law (LL.M.) (cum laude), at theKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, School of Law, Leuven,Belgium.

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Paul Mackay
Manager Employment Relations Policy atBusiness New ZealandConstituency: Business Enterprise (IOE)

Paul Mackay is Manager Employment Relations Policy atBusiness New Zealand. He has over 30 years high-level
experience in the fields of industrial relations, employment
law, labour market policy, strategic planning, change
management and human resources in central government,
state owned enterprise and the private sector.
During the 1980s, as a government official, Paul wasextensively involved in the huge reforms of theenvironmental sector, public service and the “Tomorrow’sSchools” reforms of the education service. Paul spent
several years at national grid operator Transpower, anSOE, before joining the private sector, first in Ernst &Young as a change management consultant and then in
multinational forest products company Carter Holt Harvey
where he became General Manager Employment
Relations.
Since joining BusinessNZ in 2006, Paul has represented
New Zealand employers internationally on many occasions
at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as
acting as spokesperson for the International Organisationof Employers (IOE) on employment related topics. In 2021,
he was elected as a member of the Governing Body of theInternational Labour Organisation based in Geneva.

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Emily Sims
Senior Specialist in the ILO Programme on
Multinational Enterprises , Switzerland
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Emily Sims is a Senior Specialist in the ILO Programmeon Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy andmanager of the ILO Helpdesk for Business. She has
been involved in drafting of the labour component ofvarious key CSR instruments and has provided technicalassistance to a range of industry and multi-stakeholder
initiatives, as well as providing guidance to individualcompanies. Her work also focuses on promotion ofsustainable and responsible investment, including a joint
ILO-WAIPA course Investment facilitation, sustainable
development and building back better. She is the authorof numerous articles and co-author of two
books: Corporate Success through People and LabourManagement Cooperation in SMEs: Forms andFactors. Emily is trained at the graduate level in both lawand economics (Juris Doctor, Yale Law School; MSc ineconomics, London School of Economics). She is afaculty member of the Bocconi Business School Master in
Sustainability and Energy Management.

Yulia Gershinkova
Emily will be representing ILO in providing inputs to theupdate; however, the inputs will come from a range of
relevant experts and she will be closely assisted by Yulia
Gershinkova, an ILO Technical Officer in Business andDecent Work.

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