GRI Topic Standard project for Labor
Advisory group experts biographies
December 2023

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ContentsContents
Advisory group members .........................................................................................................................3
Joana Barata Correia ...........................................................................................................................3
Tariq Desai ...........................................................................................................................................3
Caroline Eriksen ...................................................................................................................................4
Antoine Heuty .......................................................................................................................................4
Sachiko Ichikawa ..................................................................................................................................5
Muhammad Azizul Islam (Aziz) ............................................................................................................6
Dongsoo Kim ........................................................................................................................................7
Erik Nyman ...........................................................................................................................................7
Abiola Okepechi ...................................................................................................................................8
Dr Sepideh Parsa .................................................................................................................................9
Rachel Phillips Rigby..........................................................................................................................10

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Advisory group members
In accordance with due process, the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) has selected thefollowing experts to participate in the advisory group responsible for supporting and advising the laborTechnical Committee (T.C.) in the content development process. The members represent diverse,
multi-stakeholder backgrounds and bring an excellent combination of relevant knowledge andexperience in Labor.

Joana Barata Correia
IWAY Development Manager, Inter IKEA Group
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Joana is leading the development of IWAY, the IKEA way of
responsibly procuring products, services, materials and components
for the IKEA value chain. IWAY includes both the requirements forsuppliers and the supply chain, and the framework that secures thatIWAY remains a credible and robust system, in terms of governance,capacity building, assurance, due diligence, performance reporting,and monitoring and evaluation.
Joana represents IKEA in several collaborations, such as the ILO Child
Labour Platform, the ISEAL Technical Committee, the ISEAL
Stakeholder Council, and the Advisory Committee of IRIS convened by
the U.N. International Organisation for Migration.
Joana has 25 years of experience in sustainability development andleadership positions in different industries and geographies. Joana
holds a master's degree in Environmental Engineering from Nova
School of Science & Technology, and an MBA from CatólicaNova
Lisbon MBA.

Tariq Desai
Human Rights Lead, Position Green
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Tariq leads Position Green's human rights work. He has worked withclients to identify salient human rights issues, assess the quality of
their due diligence programmes, implement processes and procedures.
A qualified solicitor, Tariq previously worked for the human rights
organisation, Justice, as well as the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
Tariq has also contributed to SPOs for sustainability-linked bonds,
TCFD analyses, and assisted companies in producing ESG policies.
Tariq's work on the human rights impact of large internet companies
has been published in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
Tariq holds an M.A. in International Human Rights Law from Lund
University in Sweden.

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Caroline Eriksen
Head of the Social Initiatives, Corporate Governance, Norges
Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
Constituency: Investment Institution
Caroline Eriksen heads the Social Initiatives team within the Corporate
Governance area at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM). In
this role, she is responsible for NBIM's engagement with portfolio
companies on social topics, including human rights, anti-corruption,
human capital management and tax transparency.
Prior to joining NBIM in 2018, Eriksen worked for the NorwegianParliamentary Ombudsman. She has experience working on broad
range of social topics, in particular human rights and responsible
business conduct, including from Human Rights Watch and UNESCO.
Eriksen holds a B.A. in International Affairs from the American
University of Paris and an M.A. in Human Rights Studies fromColumbia University.

Antoine Heuty
CEO, Ulula
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Antoine Heuty is a social entrepreneur and an economist with over 20
years of experience in governance, technology, business and humanrights.
He is the founder, and CEO of Ulula- a B-Corp software and analytics
platform collecting social, labor and human rights impact data andengaging stakeholders to create more transparent and responsible
supply chains.
He previously held senior positions at the International Natural
Resource Governance Institute and the United Nations Development
Program. He is the co-author of various publications on transparency,
technology, fiscal policy, natural resource governance and supply
chains.
He has graduate degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris,
Oxford University and Columbia University's School of Internationaland Public Affairs.

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Sachiko Ichikawa
Partner lawyer at the law firm Tanabe and Partners
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Sachiko Ichikawa is a Partner lawyer at the law firm Tanabe andPartners and is an independent director at two companies listed on
the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market. She is also a director atBDTI.
Ms. Ichikawa has been a lawyer at Tanabe and Partners since 1997,
certified in Japan and the state of New York in the United States ofAmerica. She graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1989 andfrom Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M.) in May 2004. She
specializes in employment laws and the legal side of human resource
management. She is also familiar with the representation of issuers insecurities fraud litigations and matters regarding corporate
governance. She is a US CPA and FSA credential holder.
As an advisor and litigator, she gained deep knowledge about labor
related national laws and global norms such as UNGP, ILO
conventions and OECD guidelines. She has been a member of thelabor law committee at Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association and led theresearch at the foreign law subcommittee.
After she obtained firsthand experience in the impact of the failure ofissuers' internal control and board governance through securities
fraud litigation, she joined the public interest organization, Board
Directors Training Institute, which aims to provide high quality andpractical training for board directors. She provides lectures to issuers'
board directors and officers about the importance of disclosure
integrity, including ESG topics, and acquires a firsthandunderstanding of their endeavors and challenges.
She has been serving as an independent board director beginning in2015, when the Japanese Corporate Governance Code wasintroduced under the pressure that investors' viewpoints should berespected. She observes the process of issuing integrated reports,
including GRI tables, through board meeting discussions andunderstands the issuer's inside details and users' views.

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Muhammad Azizul Islam (Aziz)
Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability
Accounting & Transparency at the University of Aberdeen
Business School
Constituency: Civil Society
Professor Muhammad Azizul Islam (Aziz) is Chair in Accountancyand Professor in Sustainability Accounting & Transparency at theUniversity of Aberdeen Business School. Aziz grew up in an areain Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, surrounded by densely
packed garment factories supplying far-away retailers andwitnessed the tough life faced by garment workers. He made it his
life's research work to bring change. Now, his work is raisingawareness for ethical trade by giving a voice to the unheard
valuable garment workers of Bangladesh and other nations
Aziz is one of the world's leading sustainability accounting
researchers investigating some of the specific issues, including
human rights disclosures, corporate transparency on modern
slavery, SDGs & social audit and corporate anti-bribery
measures. Over the past 17 years, Aziz has been investigating
the use of social audits and disclosures in relation to the lives of
those who work in garment factories based in the global souththat supply goods to big retailers in the global north. His researchcollaborations are currently underway with international
institutions and researchers based in Australia, Bangladesh,
Canada, Egypt, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal, and the USA. Inaddition, he is actively engaged in doctoral and postdoctoralsupervisions.
Aziz is the recipient of many grants, including two prestigious
grants—UK AHRC and GCRF (Scottish Funding Council)— fortwo corporate accountability projects related to modern slavery.
He is a finalist for the UK Green Gown Award (in association withUKRI) and the winner of the University of Aberdeen's excellence
award for the outstanding research project (2022). He has also
been honoured with a prestigious Scottish Fair Trade Award(2022).
His research findings attract widespread media attention andinfluence policy changes. His research-based opinions appear in
BBC Radio (Scotland), Sunday Post, Conversation, The Age,
Sydney Morning Herald, Prothom Alo, The Times-Raconteur,
IFAC-Gateway, ICAEW feature articles.

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Dongsoo Kim
Director of the ESG Research Institute at Kim & Chang
Constituency: Mediating Institution
Dongsoo Kim is the Director of the ESG Research Institute at Kim &Chang. An expert in sustainability, his work in this field has helped
numerous multinational enterprises, public organizations, and thegovernment innovates their sustainability policies, strategies, andperformance.
Dongsoo is also a board member of the Council on Economic
Policies, a member of the standards board at AccountAbility, and anadjunct professor at Hanyang University. Prior to joining Kim &Chang, Dongsoo led the ESG Research Institute and the Sustainable
Management Division at KPC, a leading Korean government agency
under the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE). He wasalso Secretary-General of the Sustainability Center at MOTIE,
Secretary of the CSR Center at the Ministry of SMEs & Startups, andserved as an ESG advisor on the 20th Presidential Transition
Committee.
With his extensive experience in the public and private sectors,
Dongsoo is often invited to speak at ESG events and provide insights
through media outlets. Dongsoo was born in South Korea, studied inthe U.S., and holds a doctorate in management engineering from theKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Erik Nyman
Acting Senior Programme Manager (Children's Rights andBusiness) with UNICEF
Constituency: Civil Society
Erik Nyman serves as acting Senior Programme Manager(Children's Rights and Business) with UNICEF' Programme Group
Leadership Team in Geneva. In this function, he is responsible forleading UNICEF's global work to integrate children's rights into
responsible business conduct and address the negative impacts onchildren of business activities. Previous to this role, Mr. Nyman has
held various functions with the U.N. and civil society organizations as
an advocate and technical expert for human- and children's rights in
Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
Mr. Nyman holds an LLM from the University of Lund, Sweden.

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Abiola Okepechi
Regulatory & Sustainability Expert, ESG & Responsible
Sourcing with Assent Inc
Constituency: Business Enterprise
Abiola Okpechi is a human rights professional whose work focuseson the environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices ofcompanies and their impacts. In her role as a regulatory andsustainability expert at Assent Inc., she provides expert guidance tocompanies on integrating human rights considerations into theiroperations. This includes appropriate due diligence measures toprevent labor rights violations and other social issues in the supplychain.
Abiola previously served as lead specialist on human rights at
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, where she led implementation of thecompany’s human rights strategy, in accordance with the UnitedNations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Prior tothat, she led the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre’s
work in Africa, engaging companies on the social and environmental
impacts of their operations.
Abiola holds a Ph.D. in Public Law (Human Rights) from theUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Dr Sepideh Parsa
Associate Professor in Accounting, Middlesex University,
Member of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting(CSEAR)
Constituency: Civil Society
Sepideh's research has focused on how Transnational Corporations
report labour rights related issues along global value chains,particularly with reference to the GRI guidelines/standards. Her mostrecent work concentrates on how these themes resonate with therelated issue of Modern Slavery, which has become an issue ofincreased importance and visibility for governments around the world.
Currently, she is engaged in research project to support Local
Authorities in the identification and prevention of modern slavery intheir regions. Her other research includes corporate accountability,and social reporting in China.
Sepideh is the recipient of research funding from the British Academyfor two projects related to labour rights and sustainable humanresource management. Her work on sustainable reporting in China
was funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England andWales (ICAEW). More recently and in collaboration with a team ofresearchers from different disciplines, she has secured funding from
the Middlesex University Business School for projects related tolabour rights and governance mechanisms.
Teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Corporate
Governance and Corporate Accountability, Ethics, and Sustainability.

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Rachel Phillips Rigby
Senior Program Director at Verité
Constituency: Civil Society
Rachel Rigby is Senior Program Director at Verité – a U.S.-based
global non-profit that provides knowledge and tools to eliminate themost serious labor and human rights abuses in global supply chains.
Rachel’s focus is on salient human rights issues in raw materials
production, including child labor, forced labor, responsible recruitmentof migrant workers, gender equality, and the rights to freedom ofassociation and collective bargaining. Part of the role involves
collaboration with companies and multi-stakeholder coalitions toprovide insight on labor risks, deliver strategies and tools to manageand mitigate those risks, and develop strategies to advance sectorwide change.
Before joining Verite in 2023, Rachel had 5 years as Human Rights
Lead at the Rainforest Alliance, and 15 years at the United States
Department of Labor, first with domestic labor law enforcement
agencies and then with the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. In
the latter role, she conducted labor diplomacy with foreign
governments on behalf of the United States to promote
improvements in labor laws and enforcement; brokered partnerships
between the U.S., partner governments, and NGOs in the garments,
electronics, seafood and other sectors; and served as lead author ofseveral editions the Department's flagship publications, the List ofGoods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor and Comply Chain:
Business Tools for Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains.
Ms. Rigby holds a Master of Business Administration degree from theMiddlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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