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Jenny Vaughan

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Jenny leads BSR’s human rights team and portfolio across consulting and collaboration. In addition to directing BSR’s Human Rights Working Group, Jenny leads human rights assessments and partners with companies to develop human rights strategies and stakeholder engagement plans. She works across industries with a focus on energy, technology, and conflict-affected and high-risk contexts.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenny worked at Mercy Corps for over a decade in field management and advisory roles to prevent and mitigate conflict, promote inclusive economic development, and build civil society capacity. As the organization’s first Peace and Governance Director in Myanmar and later as the Director of the Peace and Conflict technical advisory team, she designed and implemented programs to reduce violence, promote peace and development, and address critical and emerging threats like climate change, disruptive technology, and poor governance. She has experience in context analysis, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, project design and implementation, and strategic planning. Jenny has lived and worked in countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. 

Jenny holds a MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Nina Hatch

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Nina works with BSR member companies across industries, on climate topics such as climate scenarios, TCFD, and decarbonization and net zero transformation.

Nina also works with companies across industries on developing robust sustainability strategies and conducting materiality assessments, among other topics.

Prior to joining BSR, Nina worked with a mission-driven consumer products company that makes menstrual products for women. There, she helped to create a long-term strategy to establish its leadership in sustainability, social impact, and health. In her early career, Nina worked at an environmental health advocacy firm in Maine and collaborated with industry leaders to remove harmful chemicals from food products. She also worked at a landscape architecture firm, promoting climate resilience through parks in New York City. 

Nina holds a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences from the Yale School of Public Health, and a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Colby College.

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Francesca Manta

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Francesca brings more than 12 years of experience in human rights, sustainability management, and responsible supply chains to her work with companies in the infrastructure, financial services, and consumer products sectors. After spending her first years at BSR with the human rights team and successfully leading numerous engagements as Nordics lead in Copenhagen, Francesca is now based in New York City and leads our global membership team. 

Prior to joining BSR, Francesca worked at a global Danish retailer, where she was responsible for human rights programs at the corporate and local level. Francesca has also previously worked with the Danish Institute for Human Rights as well as Vestas and Maersk, where she was part of their sustainability teams and helped to establish social compliance systems and managed broader sustainability initiatives such as materiality, reporting, and ethics. She has done field work in East Africa, India, Myanmar, China, and South Korea.

Francesca holds a M.S. in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from LUISS University Rome. She speaks Danish, English, and Italian.

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Jonathan Drimmer

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Jonathan Drimmer is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Paul Hastings LLP, where he focuses on cross-border compliance, enforcement and disputes. He is a recognized international expert in anti-corruption compliance as well as business and human rights.

He most recently was the deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer at Barrick Gold Corporation, the world’s largest gold mining company, where he helped oversee the company’s anti-corruption and human rights programs, global investigations, and major disputes. Before Barrick, he was a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP and was deputy director in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. 

He is a former Bristow Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General and a former judicial clerk on the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has testified twice before the U.S. Congress, and for the past 19 years, he has taught courses related to international humanitarian law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is a strategic advisor to the Secretariat of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and an advisor to the ISR Committee of the Mining Association of Canada. He serves on the boards of directors of the UN Global Compact’s Canada Network, Transparency International Canada, Fund for Peace, and the TRACE Foundation. He is on the steering committee of the UN Global Compact Business for Peace Initiative, on the expert advisory board for the US OECD National Contact Point, on the faculty of Competent Boards, and he is a subject matter expert at Canada’s Centre for Excellence on Anti-Corruption. 

Among his awards and recognitions are the Charles Fahy Award for teaching at Georgetown and the first U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Award for Human Rights Law Enforcement. He has repeatedly been recognized by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the world’s leading attorneys in Ethics and Compliance, has been identified by the National Law Journal as a Regulatory and Compliance Trailblazer, was named by The Law 500 as one of the 100 most influential in-house counsel in both the United States and in Canada, and was recognized as one of the top 100 in-house counsel in the world by Legal Era.  He graduated from Stanford University and UCLA Law School.

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Nine Weijenborg

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Nine supports BSR’s work across various industries, including financial services, industrials and utilities, and energy and extractives. She focuses on design and implementation of sustainability strategies, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and governance.

Prior to joining BSR, Nine worked in PwC’s sustainability services practice, where she advised multinational companies on sustainability strategies. She focused on how organizations could integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into their strategies and practices to increase their positive impact and mitigate their negative impact. She also audited social and environmental data. Nine is a One Young World ambassador.

Nine holds an M.Sc. in Food Safety Law from Wageningen University and an L.L.M. in Law from the University of Amsterdam. She wrote her master’s thesis at the University of Cape Town, focusing on food innovations for local farmers.

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Maria Bennici

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Maria provides digital communications, email marketing, content, and event support to BSR.

She produces online content, including blogs, reports, and eblasts, and manages our marketing tools. She also executes events and provides support to communications in the EMEA region.

Prior to joining BSR, Maria worked at AUSY, a French engineering consulting company, for two years as its international communications coordinator. She also previously worked at UNESCO.

Maria received a BA in Foreign Affairs and French Language and Literature from the University of Virginia and an MA in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po Paris.

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Adam Fishman

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Adam works with BSR member companies across industries on sustainability management, including stakeholder engagement, materiality, strategy and reporting, among other topics.

Prior to BSR, Adam was a thematic expert on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, focusing on the linkages between climate, development, business, and sustainable consumption and production. He previously worked on the SDGs team at World Resources Institute. During his graduate studies, Adam interned at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and was a Coca-Cola World Fund fellow with Conservation International, researching the strategic connections between the SDGs and corporate sustainability.

Adam holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, specializing in Business and the Environment. He has a BA in Environmental Studies and Government, with a concentration in International Politics, from Wesleyan University.

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Isadora Loreto

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Isadora leads the RISE Respect - Tackling Gender Based Violence and Harassment program, which focuses on preventing and remediating gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the garment industry.

Isadora was a manager at HERproject, where she led the HERrespect pillar globally and HERproject operations in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India. She was originally based in BSR’s Hong Kong office when she started at HERproject in 2018. Prior to joining BSR, Isadora worked at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)’s Bangkok office, where she was part of the gender and social inclusion division. In this role, she focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment policies in the Asia-Pacific region.

Isadora holds a Master’s Degree in International Law and Economics, with a focus on International Development and Humanitarian Action, from the Institut d'Etudes Humanitaires - Université Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille III. She is a native French speaker and is fluent in English and Spanish.

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Laura Hansson

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Laura supports BSR’s sustainability management work across industries. She has also worked on several of BSR’s multistakeholder collaborations, including the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition and Maritime Anti-Corruption Network.

Prior to joining BSR, Laura was the director of the Copenhagen branch of a global social impact consultancy advising startup companies and social enterprises on fundraising and communications strategies as well as social impact creation and measurement. She also held an internship position at a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the rights of women journalists. Laura speaks German, English, and Spanish.

Laura holds an M.Sc. in Business and Development Studies with a Minor in Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship and a B.Sc. in Business, Language, and Culture, both from Copenhagen Business School.

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Alexander Wood

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Alexander manages BSR’s IT infrastructure, primarily focusing on technology advancement projects to increase both efficiency and security throughout all of our systems.

He also works directly with technology vendors to ensure our staff requests are serviced quickly and efficiently.

Prior to joining BSR, Alexander worked in multiple technology and operations roles, including service desk, IT engineering, and learning and development. He was also a small business owner and operations lead. His career in technology started in 2010 in the private banking sector, where his passion for security compliance and automation sparked.

Alexander holds a B.A in Media Arts and Animation from the Art Institute of California, San Francisco.