Joanne Bauer is Adjunct Professor at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where she teaches business and human rights. She is also Senior Researcher at Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and co-founded the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum, based at Columbia, which involves over 280 faculty from over 150 institutions in 40 countries. From 2006-2012 she was Senior Researcher with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre where she led the Asia program. Prior to that, from 1994 to 2005, Joanne was Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (New York), where she founded the Carnegie Council’s research programs on human rights and environmental values. An Asia specialist for more than 25 years, she has traveled extensively in the region and has published books and articles on human rights in Asia. Bauer is a Senior Fellow, Melbourne University Law School, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
