Caroline Rees is President and Co-Founder of Shift, a non-profit organization with the mission to build a world in which business gets done with respect for people’s dignity and equality. Caroline oversees the organization’s strategy and thought leadership work on key challenges and opportunities in advancing respect for human rights in business practices. In recent years, she has focused on corporate reporting as a catalyst for better human rights risk management, and on improving the data and methods used to evaluate companies’ social performance. From 2006 to 2011, Caroline was lead advisor to Professor John Ruggie in his role as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative (SRSG) on Business and Human Rights, and was closely involved in the development of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. From 2009 to 2011, she was also Director of the Governance and Accountability Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Corporate Responsibility Initiative. In her prior career, from 1992 to 2006, Caroline was a British diplomat with a focus on multilateral affairs in the EU and UN. In 2004 she chaired the UN negotiations that led to the creation of the role of SRSG on business and human rights. Caroline is a Commissioner on the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality, a member of the Steering Committee of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures, and on the Board of the Capitals Coalition.