Speakers
As global supply chains grow increasingly complex, investors face mounting pressure to address human rights risks across high-risk sectors such as technology, renewables, and garments. From forced labour to child exploitation, and persistent wage and safety violations, these challenges pose significant legal, reputational, and financial risks. Brought to you by the RIAA Human Rights Working Group, this panel will explore how investors can leverage influence to drive responsible practices, comply with emerging due diligence regulations, and integrate human rights considerations into investment strategies. Together with this panel of experts, explore these risks through practical tools and sector-specific case studies.
Co-Chair of RIAA's Human Rights Working Group & Senior Director, ESG & Stewardship, Workforce Integration at AustralianSuper
In her role at AustralianSuper, Antonia is focused on integrating workforce considerations into investment decisions, stewardship, and policy advocacy to support investment value for members. Antonia has previously held senior leadership, operational and legal roles at the Fair Work Ombudsman, the Fair Work Commission, and the National Union of Workers (now the United Workers Union). She has been an active member of RIAA’s HRWG, contributing to various outputs including most recently the Human Rights in Global Value Chains toolkit which was launched at RIAA Australia Conference 2025.
NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner
Dr James Cockayne is NSW’s first independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, with responsibilities that include helping NSW public buyers ensure they do not buy products of modern slavery. Prior to his appointment, James worked with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Liechtenstein and the Netherlands to found and lead Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST), developing the FAST Blueprint and training over 15,000 finance professionals in anti-slavery measures. Later, he helped stand up Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking-APAC. James has also advised multilateral development banks, export credit agencies and institutional investors on modern slavery in ESG strategies. James previously spent two decades working in international affairs, serving as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Equity and Social Justice, leading the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research in New York, the US Council on Foreign Relations Study Group on Human Trafficking, the Center for Global Counterterrorism Cooperation’s work in New York and Africa, and the Transnational Crime Unit of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra.