Join us at the next Human Rights Working Group meeting for the opportunity to hear from the New South Wales’ first Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dr James Cockayne. He will discuss modern slavery statements, challenges with scalable modern slavery data, and explore the significance of these issues, covering the responsibility to protect, moving towards a value creation exercise, and examples of specific supply chains. This will be followed by the standard agenda items, including a series of industry updates as well as updates from our subgroups.
We will then have the opportunity to reflect on our work plan as well as receive updates from RIAA’s Head of Policy and Advocacy.
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About the speakers
Dr James Cockayne
NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner
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Office of the 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's Department in Canberra.
Join us at the next Human Rights Working Group meeting for the opportunity to hear from the New South Wales’ first Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dr James Cockayne. He will discuss modern slavery statements, challenges with scalable modern slavery data, and explore the significance of these issues, covering the responsibility to protect, moving towards a value creation exercise, and examples of specific supply chains. This will be followed by the standard agenda items, including a series of industry updates as well as updates from our subgroups.
We will then have the opportunity to reflect on our work plan as well as receive updates from RIAA’s Head of Policy and Advocacy.
View RIAA's Privacy Collection Statement here.
