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Vera Solveig

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Vera works with the Finance team and is responsible for payroll coordination, focusing on process efficiency and accuracy.

Prior to joining BSR, Vera worked in healthcare and non-profit university settings.

Vera is currently working on a BS degree in Data Science, Business Administration at Arizona State University.

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Anna Quinn

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Anna is BSR’s Campaign Strategy and Editorial Manager and is based out of the Paris office. In this role, Anna leads the development and execution of BSR’s global editorial strategy and supports the strategic planning of targeted marketing campaigns.

Prior to joining BSR, Anna managed the global communications and PR strategy at Efma, a member-based nonprofit for the financial services industry. She has broad experience in B2B communications across sectors, including tourism, agriculture, health, and beauty.

Anna holds a Master's degree in Bilingual Communications, Culture and Media from Paris Diderot University and a BA from the University of Leeds in Music and English Literature. An international-minded sustainable advocate, Anna is fluent in both French and English.

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May Wu

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May applies her strategic consulting and business development experience to BSR's global operations team to support the administrative and operational needs of BSR’s Collaborative Initiatives (CIs) portfolio, as well as global operations more broadly.

Before BSR, May worked as a Director of Business Development and Management Consultant at LBL Strategies, helping with designing, selling, and facilitating various strategic consulting projects and training programs. She also worked as a project consultant, representing Georgetown University in a global consulting project to provide innovative recommendations to improve operating performance while pursuing her MBA degree. Besides that, she also helped entrepreneurs design a business model and prepared a pitch deck for their startup projects. Meanwhile, she was one of the co-founders of a social media application. May speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

May has a MBA from McDonough School of Business, focusing on non-market strategy, and two BS degrees from Binghamton University, majoring in Financial Economics and Actuarial Science.

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Constance Flachaire

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Constance works with BSR member companies across various industries and areas of expertise with a focus on sustainability management and financial services.

Prior to joining BSR, Constance was an associate at Green Soluce, an entrepreneurial sustainability consulting firm based in Paris. In this role, she advised real estate and private equity investment managers on their ESG policies and impact rating tools, and she led a range of events, workshops, and trainings on sustainable investment. In addition to consulting, Constance was also an auditor for the newly launched French Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) label for real estate funds. This role consisted of analyzing responsible investment policy and its implementation at the fund level against the label's specifications.

Constance holds a Master’s in Business Management from EDHEC Business School and a Certificate in Science, Technology, Business and Society Challenges of Sustainability from Copenhagen Business School.

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Faraz Ansari

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Faraz works with BSR member companies across industries in human rights and technology.

Prior to BSR, Faraz was an Advocacy Fellow at Access Now, where he contributed to digital rights campaigns. Previously, he worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Human Rights Initiative, where he researched business, human rights, and technology.

Faraz holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Law and Economic Policy. Prior to SAIS, he graduated from the Ohio State University, where he served as a John Glenn Fellow at the US Department of Justice and as a Critical Language Fellow at the US Department of State.

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Maria Robold

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Maria supports BSR member companies across various industries in respecting human rights across their organizations and value chains.

Prior to joining BSR, Maria worked for the NGO Pact, where she acted as a key point of contact between donor and field teams for the International Tin Supply Chain Initiative, the largest traceability and due diligence program for tin, tungsten, and tantalum (3T minerals) in the African Great Lakes Region. She also advised mining companies on incident resolution and risk mitigation in mineral supply chains, with a focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu province. Before that, Maria worked in Myanmar for Human Rights Now, where she researched human rights violations in the supply chains of Japanese companies.

Maria holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied English and Japanese studies from the University of Paris and a joint Master’s Degree in Global Studies from the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig. She speaks French, German, English, and Japanese.

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Hugh W. Brown, Jr.

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Hugh is the Global Head of BSR’s Financial Services practice and partners with public and private companies across sectors.

He advises institutional investors, corporations, and other capital market participants on corporate strategy, sustainability, investment value creation strategy, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. 

Prior to joining BSR, Hugh was a senior director at Ceres, where he led investor engagement with global institutional investors representing over US$20 trillion in assets under management (AUM). Hugh managed research and analysis linking climate risks including land use change and water risks to investment portfolios and company supply chains to help investors and companies manage sustainability impacts and opportunities.  

Hugh has over 15 years of investment management expertise in various roles. At the $250 billion AUM Florida State Board of Administration, he worked on corporate governance, liquidity cash management, risk management across asset classes, and portfolio value creation strategy. He also worked at Morgan Stanley, where he provided investment management and consulting services to municipal entities.  

Hugh is a veteran of the US Air Force. He holds a BA in History and International Affairs from Florida State University and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University.  

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Julie Dugard

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Julie serves as Manager of BSR’s Climate team, where she brings over 10 years of experience in corporate sustainability and climate action and supports BSR members with their climate strategies.

After joining BSR in 2021, Julie worked on multiple projects helping companies implementing TCFD recommendations, conducting climate scenario analysis (for the tech, financial and insurance industry), accelerating Net Zero transition, implementing just transition approaches (extractive industry) and scope 3 strategies (consumer goods sector). Since 2023, Julie manages BSR grant-funded work dedicated to Climate Transition Plans.

Julie is also co-developing BSR’s work on alternative business models addressing the tension between business growth and sustainability targets.

Prior to joining BSR, Julie worked in Mazars’s sustainability services and risk practice, where she audited and advised companies on their ESG data and internal audit, control and risk approaches. During her time within Mazars, Julie also spent six months at the Mexico City office.

Julie holds a master’s degree in business from Kedge Business School and spent one semester at the University of Nottingham and another one at the University of Technology of Sydney. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.

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J.Y. Hoh

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J.Y. works with technology companies to incorporate effective human rights practices.

Before joining BSR, J.Y. worked as an international human rights lawyer at NGOs. He was previously a Legal Officer at the Centre for Law and Democracy, an international human rights NGO promoting freedom of expression and the right to information globally. Before that, he was a Staff Lawyer at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canada’s national human rights organization, where he was a recipient of the Law Foundation of Ontario’s Public Interest Articling Fellowship. He also acted as an international trade negotiator for the government of Singapore and was part of the negotiating team that closed the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.

J.Y. holds a BA in Law from the University of Oxford, Somerville College and a LLM (International Law) from the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Kayla Winarsky McKenzie

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Kayla collaborates with BSR member companies on projects centering on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, focusing on companies within the consumer sectors industry cluster. Her areas of expertise include energy transition, anti-corruption, and gender.

Prior to joining BSR, Kayla spent several years advising multinational companies and investors on human rights as an Adviser at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, during which she also served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on Business and Human Rights (BHR), international human rights, anti-corruption, and EU law. Previously, she worked on global anti-corruption investigations and cross-border white collar litigations as an Associate Attorney at the international law firm King & Spalding LLP, where she was the founding member of the firm's BHR initiative.

Kayla holds a JD and a Certificate in Global Human Rights from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, which included course work at the Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, and a BA, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude from Tulane University.