With over 50 million people estimated to be living in modern slavery conditions and rising economic and social instability, human rights risks are becoming a critical financial concern for companies and investors.
In response, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) launched the third edition of its landmark publication, ‘Investor Toolkit: Human Rights in Global Value Chains’.
This edition builds on the success of the 2018 and 2021 versions, offering a refreshed and highly practical and action-oriented guide for asset owners and managers. It helps investors to engage constructively with companies on managing human rights risks across operations, supply chains and broader value chains.
Volunteers from RIAA's Human Rights Working Group have come together to update and present the third iteration of the Human Rights in Global Value Chains Toolkit. For this online launch we will be lucky to be joined by the Co-leads of the toolkit Måns Carlsson OAM, Head of ESG and Co-Portfolio Manager, Ausbil Active Sustainable Equity Fund and Timothy Stamp who is a Principal within Sustainable Investment at Mercer Australia. Moderated by the toolkit Lead Editor, Rachel Alembakis, Stewardship Manager at U Ethical Investors, we will also be joined by more of the toolkit team to be announced soon.
While this toolkit provides ideas for engagement on modern slavery issues, this third edition maintains the same scope as previous editions and continues to assess human rights issues in the context of supply chains and broader value chains of businesses.
Join us for a deep dive into better practices that can lead to better outcomes both from an investor and human rights perspective.
About the contributors
About the speakers
Rachel Alembakis
Stewardship Manager
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U Ethical Investors
Rachel Alembakis is stewardship manager at U Ethical Investors. In her role, she is responsible for managing U Ethical’s active ownership activities. She was previously the managing editor and founder of FS Sustainability, a Rainmaker title that examines how investors and companies integrate environmental, social and corporate governance issues into their decision-making processes and host of the ESG podcast The Greener Way. She has more than a decade’s experience as a financial journalist covering a broad range of investment issues.
Rachel holds an MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a BA in journalism and a BS in political science from Boston University.
Måns Carlsson OAM
Head of ESG & Co-Portfolio Manager, Active Sustainable Equity Fund
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Ausbil
Originally a financial analyst, since 2007 I have specialised in proprietary ESG research and company engagement as well as policy advocacy.
The proprietary ESG research is tailored to Ausbil's investment philosophy and focuses on earnings revisions, earnings sustainability and management quality. From previous roles I also have experience in ESG integration for fixed income and international equities products.
Specialties: ESG and sustainability research / engagement across a wide range of sectors and issues, including: climate change, labour rights / human rights in supply chains, corporate governance, ESG disclosure, corporate culture and more.
I have presented on ESG and ESG integration at various investment industry events, including PRI in person, the ACSI Conference, the RIAA Conference, the Thomson-Reuters Stop Slavery Summit, the CSR Asia Summit, AIRA and more. I have also presented at numerous industry events, such as the KPMG/SEDEX conference, BAML's ESG series, the Australian Sustainable Fashion Conference and much more.
Chair of RIAA’s Human Rights Working Group and also a Director of the board of RIAA. Co-chair of workstream 1 and steerco member of Investors against slavery and trafficking, IAST-APAC.
Order of Australia Medal in 2022 for contribution to the sustainable investment industry and letter of commendation from Anti-Slavery Australia in 2019.
Timothy Stamp
Principal, Sustainable Investment
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Mercer Australia
With over 50 million people estimated to be living in modern slavery conditions and rising economic and social instability, human rights risks are becoming a critical financial concern for companies and investors.
In response, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) launched the third edition of its landmark publication, ‘Investor Toolkit: Human Rights in Global Value Chains’.
This edition builds on the success of the 2018 and 2021 versions, offering a refreshed and highly practical and action-oriented guide for asset owners and managers. It helps investors to engage constructively with companies on managing human rights risks across operations, supply chains and broader value chains.
Volunteers from RIAA's Human Rights Working Group have come together to update and present the third iteration of the Human Rights in Global Value Chains Toolkit. For this online launch we will be lucky to be joined by the Co-leads of the toolkit Måns Carlsson OAM, Head of ESG and Co-Portfolio Manager, Ausbil Active Sustainable Equity Fund and Timothy Stamp who is a Principal within Sustainable Investment at Mercer Australia. Moderated by the toolkit Lead Editor, Rachel Alembakis, Stewardship Manager at U Ethical Investors, we will also be joined by more of the toolkit team to be announced soon.
While this toolkit provides ideas for engagement on modern slavery issues, this third edition maintains the same scope as previous editions and continues to assess human rights issues in the context of supply chains and broader value chains of businesses.
Join us for a deep dive into better practices that can lead to better outcomes both from an investor and human rights perspective.
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