Board of Directors

Caroline Rees

Caroline is Director, Governance & Accountability Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also an advisor to Professor John Ruggie, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights and member of the Board of the Institute for Human Rights and Business. Caroline previously spent 14 years with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

From 2003-2006 she was posted at the UK’s Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, where she led the UK’s human rights negotiating team. She was closely involved in negotiations on issues such as human rights in Sudan and the Middle East, the right to development, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and business and human rights.

In 2005 she chaired the negotiations that created the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for business and human rights. Her prior foreign service career covers Iran, Slovakia, the UN Security Council and the negotiations leading to the 2004 enlargement of the European Union.

Caroline has a BA from Oxford University and an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.