How can investors engage with companies to prevent and address human rights abuses? RIAA’s Human Rights Working Group is an initiative to support members in their stewardship responsibilities respecting human rights in their business operations and their portfolio of companies.
The Human Rights Working Group is a way for RIAA members to come together in the interests of building stronger stewardship capabilities through more deeply understanding human rights, being able to identify and comment on due diligence processes and understand investor and company roles in remedying human rights abuses and violations.
The focus of the first Human Rights Working Group meeting for 2025 will be on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) with an investor lens. Given the current discussions globally relating to DEI, what is the evidence base for improving the overall effectiveness and performance of companies.
To explore this, we're pleased to be joined by Sarah Hill, Senior Responsible Investment Associate at HESTA, and Sudip Hazra, Director of the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute. Both Sarah and Sudip are leaders in this field, and we look forward to the discussion.This presentation will then be followed by the regular meeting items including updates from the subgroups (including an update on progress with the Human Rights and Value Chains toolkit drafting) and RIAA's policy and advocacy work.
About the contributors
About the speakers
Sudip Hazra
Director
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First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute
Sudip Hazra is Director of the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, which publishes research on a variety of ESG thematics relevant to investors, corporates and the sustainability community. Previously Director of ESG Research at asset manager Invesco and Co-Head of ESG Research at financial services firm Kepler Cheuvreux in London he has worked to lead teams at the forefront of sustainable investing, covering regulatory changes such as the EU SFDR, global engagement practices, Net Zero implementation and broad ESG integration. His thematic reports have been regularly shortlisted for the City of London Farsight awards and his study “Tax me if you can: Game over” previously won the prize for best long-term oriented investment research. At Bloomberg in London, his team launched ESG functionality on the terminal globally. Prior to this, Sudip worked with Arthur Andersen, 3M and Henkel. He has a BA from Oxford University and an MA from QMUL and was a student mentor at these universities.
Sarah Hill
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HESTA
How can investors engage with companies to prevent and address human rights abuses? RIAA’s Human Rights Working Group is an initiative to support members in their stewardship responsibilities respecting human rights in their business operations and their portfolio of companies.
The Human Rights Working Group is a way for RIAA members to come together in the interests of building stronger stewardship capabilities through more deeply understanding human rights, being able to identify and comment on due diligence processes and understand investor and company roles in remedying human rights abuses and violations.
The focus of the first Human Rights Working Group meeting for 2025 will be on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) with an investor lens. Given the current discussions globally relating to DEI, what is the evidence base for improving the overall effectiveness and performance of companies.
To explore this, we're pleased to be joined by Sarah Hill, Senior Responsible Investment Associate at HESTA, and Sudip Hazra, Director of the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute. Both Sarah and Sudip are leaders in this field, and we look forward to the discussion.This presentation will then be followed by the regular meeting items including updates from the subgroups (including an update on progress with the Human Rights and Value Chains toolkit drafting) and RIAA's policy and advocacy work.
