Vanessa is CEO of Pillar Two, a global specialist business and human rights advisory firm with team members in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. She was previously part of the core team drafting the internationally recognised UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and managed Rio Tinto’s human rights programme for 10 years. Vanessa is Chair of the Human Rights Technical Advisory Group at the UN Global Compact Network Australia, Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Business and Human Rights Committee and amongst other advisory roles has been appointed to the Australian Government’s Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group, the National Roundtable on Human Trafficking and Slavery and the Governance and Advisory Board to the Australian National Contact Point under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Vanessa has been recognised as one of the Australian Women of Influence, received the inaugural Human Rights Medal from Anti-Slavery Australia and is a member of Chief Executive Women, the pre-eminent organisation representing more than 1400 of Australia’s most senior women leaders from the corporate, public and not-for profit sectors. Her qualifications include a Master of Laws from Harvard University.
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