Search Results

People

Emma Giloth

Preview

Emma Giloth is a social impact and brand strategist working at the intersection of human rights and consumer sectors at BSR. Her expertise lies in food, beverage, and agriculture; consumer marketing; and ethical supply chains.

Prior to BSR, Emma worked in the consumer packaged goods industry, where she led marketing and innovation for a food company that specialized in ethical sourcing of climate-smart ingredients. A social entrepreneur at heart, she co-founded a sustainable natural products brand in Senegal as well as an Africa-focused intercultural communication consultancy. She is dedicated to strengthening employment opportunities for youth and is a business advisor to several African brands. Before working in the private sector, Emma managed programs on human rights, early childhood development, and youth empowerment in West Africa and the Caribbean.

Emma holds a BA in International Relations and Economics from American University and a MBA specialized in Social Enterprise and Sustainability Management from Colorado State University. She speaks French and Wolof.

People

Raluca Bumboiu

Preview

Raluca works with BSR member companies across various industries on sustainability management projects, with a focus on the financial services industry. She also supports the Healthcare Working Group collaborative initiative.

Prior to joining BSR, Raluca was a Production Manager at Vigeo Eiris (part of Moody’s ESG Solutions), a socially responsible investment rating agency. She focused on evaluating the positive contribution of public companies’ commercial activities to sustainable development. 

Raluca holds a MA in Environmental Policy from Sciences Po Paris and a BA in International Relations from the University of Bucharest. She speaks English, Romanian, and French.

People

Jenna Kowalevsky

Preview

Jenna brings 20 years of experience working in human rights, sustainability, and stakeholder relations at global companies to her work with BSR member companies.

She works closely with companies as an expert on human rights and just transition, including focusing on the energy sector’s transition to net zero. She previously managed BSR’s Just Transition Collaborative Initiative.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenna held several senior roles at global organizations. She advised Suncor Energy on integrating sustainability into business processes, ensuring projects managed social and environmental impacts and risks, and led their human rights activities. While at Repsol, she developed and implemented a global community relations, Indigenous Peoples and human rights approach, and supporting management system. Jenna held multiple roles at Talisman Energy, where she led the global ethics program, implemented a supplier code of conduct and risk assessment process, analyzed company-wide safety and environmental performance, and conducted land consultation and stakeholder engagement. Jenna also held a key role at Interpol, guiding the organization on its strategic direction and was instrumental in developing its new organizational strategy.

Jenna holds an MBA and a Graduate Diploma in Social Performance Management from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Commerce in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Calgary.

People

Norah McKee

Preview

Norah leads the Global Talent and DEI functions at BSR as part of the People and Culture team.

Norah is responsible for developing and executing a best practice talent management and DEI strategy to ensure that BSR attracts, retains, and develops diverse talent in an inclusive working environment. Norah strongly believes People and Culture teams are the conscience of an employer and have a duty to ensure the best possible quality of work in the best possible environment, allowing employees and their communities to thrive.

Prior to BSR, Norah worked across a variety of human resources (HR) roles in Talent Acquisition, Global Mobility, HR Consultancy, and most recently as an HR Business Partner. She has delivered projects such as social mobility recruitment programs, DEI strategy and implementation, organization design, talent development and succession planning. She has also lived and worked in Senegal, assisting a local NGO specializing in early-year education.

She holds a MA in Geography from the University of Glasgow, a MSc in Human Resource Management from Edinburgh Napier University, and is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

People

Ameer Azim

Preview

Ameer leads BSR’s climate work in the US and works closely with BSR’s financial services practice. Ameer helps BSR members develop strategies to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and enhance business resilience through climate scenario analysis and planning. He also contributes to collaborative initiatives at BSR and currently supports the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions.

Prior to joining BSR, Ameer was the chief financial economist at Climate Advisers Trust and Orbitas, where he conducted research on climate scenario analysis and financial research for the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector and engaged institutional investors on deforestation risks in investment portfolios. Ameer also brings over a decade of capital markets experience at financial institutions like ABN Amro, Citi, and Barclays Bank.

Ameer holds a MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a BA in Economics and Government from College of William and Mary.

People

Ariela Levy

Preview

Ariela works with BSR member companies across various industries on sustainability management, with a focus on climate change and human rights.

Prior to joining BSR, Ariela was an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps fellow with Sustainable Jersey, where she helped New Jersey municipalities implement energy efficiency projects. Previously, she worked as a consultant with Amnesty International, where she helped develop the organization’s platform on tear gas. Ariela was also a research assistant for the Mexican Ministry of Health, where she researched the impacts of changing climactic conditions on dengue. Ariela’s experiences focus on the intersection of climate change, human rights, and health.

Ariela holds an MPA from Columbia University in Environmental Science and Policy as well as a B.S. in Society and Environment and B.A. in Public Health from UC Berkeley. She is a native Spanish speaker and is proficient in French.

People

Batoul Bennani

Preview

Batoul works with BSR member companies across industries in human rights.

Prior to joining BSR, Batoul was a project officer at Thinkers & Doers, a French think tank, where she conducted interviews, collected data, and created visuals for reports. She also coordinated the think tank’s flagship conferences. Before this role, Batoul worked at the United Nations for the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and at Groupe SOS, where she was organized a high-level conference on social and inclusive economy.

Batoul holds a Bachelor of Private Law and a Master’s in Business Law from Université Paris II - Panthéon Assas and a Master’s in Comparative Law from Université Paris - Descartes. She also went on an academic exchange program at the University of Buenos Aires, where she studied international law and women’s rights.

Batoul is fluent in French and English and is proficient in Spanish and Arabic.

People

Alison Berthet

Preview

Alison supports companies in embedding respect for human rights across their organizations and value chain. She brings a strong, collaborative spirit and expertise in developing and implementing strategies and governance, due diligence, and engagement mechanisms to effectively manage human rights risks. 

Alison joined BSR from BT Group plc, a BSR member company, where she led the development of a new human rights strategy geared at ensuring a responsible approach to how the organization buys, sells, develops, and uses technology. Highlights included setting up a new steering group, engaging key internal stakeholders through innovative workshops, and integrating human rights risks in BT’s group risk management framework. Before that, Alison trained and practiced as a corporate lawyer at the global law firm Hogan Lovells, specializing in international arbitration and business and human rights disputes. Her experience included advising a European energy company and its executives against a potential criminal prosecution for complicit liability in war crimes committed by a state military.

Alison holds a LLM in Public International Law and a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Alison is fluent in English and French.

People

Beatriz Osorio Marugán

Preview

Beatriz is part of the nature and climate change teams, aiming at strengthening and developing BSR’s nature offering as well as tapping into the interconnectedness between these two areas and crafting solutions that uplift members’ climate and nature commitments and their overall impact.

Prior to joining BSR, Beatriz was the Consulting Director and Board Member at the Paris branch of a global social impact student consultancy, where she managed a range of missions, especially within the education, consumer, and financial sectors. She also worked for over two years as a public sector consultant at EY Madrid, where she mostly assisted public bodies in project definition, strategy, and implementation under the European Regional Development Fund scheme, participating in a wide array of projects focusing on social inclusion, the circular economy, green mobility, and smart cities.  

Beatriz holds a MS in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris, a MS in Management Consulting from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and a BSc in International Management and Modern Languages (IMML) from the University of Bath. She speaks Spanish, English, and French.

People

Rose Stuckey Kirk

Preview

Rose Stuckey Kirk is senior vice president and chief corporate social responsibility officer for Verizon. She is responsible for the company’s CSR investment strategy and programmatic buildout, and as a senior leader in the marketing organization, oversees the strategic direction for all of Verizon’s social impact marketing activity. 

Rose’s background as a senior leader in various P&L functions has primed her to advance the social innovation work of Verizon. 

Rose is a member of the board of directors of BSR, Casella Waste Systems, and the World Childhood Foundation. She is a member of the Leadership Board of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Leadership Council, the Executive Leadership Council, and C200—a preeminent global organization for women business leaders. Rose is also a Vanguard member of the NationSwell Council, a membership community of service-minded leaders. 

Rose held former positions as Chair of the Board, Executive Committee Chair, and Governance Committee, member of Dress for Success Worldwide, as well as Strategic Planning Chair, and Finance Committee member for Gill Saint Bernard’s School.

An award-winning journalist and the executive producer of the documentary Without A Net: The Digital Divide in America, Rose holds a BS in Journalism from Arkansas State University and is completing a Masters in International Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.