Hannah works with multinational companies to align business and human rights strategies and facilitate incorporation of sustainable practices into business operations across sectors.
She focuses on the intersection of human rights and new, disruptive technology and leads the Tech Against Trafficking collaborative initiative.
Prior to joining BSR, Hannah worked with the Skoll Foundation, where she co-led the portfolio and investments team’s efforts to identify social entrepreneurs with the potential to drive large-scale social change. Her work led to over US$20 million in grants and investments between 2015 and 2018. Before Skoll, Hannah spent six years working in anti-human trafficking in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Bay Area. She is fluent in French.
Hannah holds a Master’s in NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of Michigan. She currently serves on the advisory boards of Oxfam’s Women in Small Enterprise initiative and Convening17.
Insights From Hannah Darnton
- The Human Rights Impacts of AI / June 4, 2024 / Audio
- The EU AI Act: 11 Recommendations for Business / May 21, 2024 / Blog
- The EU AI Act: What It Means for Your Business / April 25, 2024 / Blog
- A Business Guide to Responsible and Sustainable AI / March 27, 2024 / Insights+
- A Human Rights Assessment of the Generative AI Value Chain / February 9, 2024 / Blog
- 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
- AI and Human Rights in Healthcare / October 5, 2023 / Reports
- AI and Human Rights in Extractives / July 20, 2023 / Reports
- AI and Human Rights in Financial Services / July 20, 2023 / Reports
- Navigating Data Privacy in Post-Roe America / June 28, 2023 / Blog
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Twitch / April 18, 2023 / Blog
- Twitch Human Rights Impact Assessment / April 18, 2023 / Reports
- Why Every Business Needs to Think about Responsible AI / April 13, 2023 / Blog
- AI and Human Rights in Retail / April 3, 2023 / Reports
- Human Rights Everywhere All at Once / September 8, 2022 / Blog
- Harnessing the Power of Data to Combat Human Trafficking / May 17, 2022 / Blog
- Advancing Human Rights in the SaaS Sector / May 12, 2022 / Blog
- Human Rights Assessment of the Software-as-a-Service Sector / May 12, 2022 / Reports
- Applying the UNGPs to Technology: Our Point of View / March 7, 2022 / Blog
- Climate Change: Building Resilience While Protecting Human Rights / September 21, 2021 / Reports
- Responsible Product Use in the SaaS Sector / July 15, 2021 / Reports
- Accelerating the Use of Technology to Combat Human Trafficking / June 30, 2021 / Blog
- Five Considerations for Companies Setting up Digital Ethics Advisory Boards / June 21, 2021 / Blog
- Science: A Human Right for Our Times / April 20, 2021 / Blog
- The Human Rights Impacts of Workplace Monitoring Technology / March 9, 2021 / Blog
- Why Worker Data Protection Should Be Central to a 21st-Century Social Contract / July 9, 2020 / Blog
- Accelerating Toward Data Insights / February 20, 2020 / Blog
- Google’s Human Rights by Design / October 30, 2019 / Blog
- Responsible Use of Technology / September 20, 2019 / Blog
- Scaling Impact: Tech Against Trafficking Launches Accelerator Program / July 2, 2019 / Blog
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: We Need to Talk about the Use Phase / May 15, 2019 / Blog
- Global Tech Companies, Partners Identify Tools to Fight Human Trafficking / January 17, 2019 / Blog
- Four Reflections on the Human Rights Implications of Artificial Intelligence / October 25, 2018 / Blog
- Announcing a New Collaboration Using Tech to Combat Human Trafficking / June 28, 2018 / Blog