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Liz is responsible for coordinating KLD's human rights research. A key focus of her research is supply chain labor standards in the retail, footwear, apparel and toy industries, although her work also covers a range of human rights issues affecting other industries. She sits on KLD’s ratings review and index committees, and is a member of working groups at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and CERES. Liz has participated as an invited expert in United Nations initiatives such as the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and the International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) initiative on social indicators for corporate reporting. She works remotely from Geneva, Switzerland.
Prior to KLD, Liz was the manager of policy research at OXFAM America, where her work covered areas such as humanitarian aid, extractive industries, and the effects of drug patents on developing countries. She was previously a Program Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, where she focused on environmental issues, such as conflicts over natural resource use, arising in the context of refugee camps and settlements.
Liz received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. Her dissertation, entitled Environmental Non-Governmental Networks: The Mexican Case in Theory and Practice, examined environmental NGO networks and environmental policy in Mexico, where she conducted her doctoral field research. Liz holds a B.A. in Spanish from Harvard University. She is fluent in Spanish and French, and enjoys writing light verse. | 