Andrea is a sustainability practitioner and business and human rights expert with nearly twenty years of experience leading policy and practice to advance social sustainability across sectors and geographies. Andrea has extensive experience in devising and implementing actionable strategies to address complex sustainability challenges, with special emphasis on human rights, having worked with major multinational corporations, global financial institutions, governments, and civil society organisations.
Andrea also brings a wealth of experience as an international lawyer. She has worked alongside legal, commercial and operational teams to position human rights within organisations, engaging with teams across the business to support the implementation of human rights policies and processes and ensure regulatory and reporting compliance. She has ample experience with the financial sector including as a member of the roster of experts of the project complaint mechanism at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, an advisor to a group of Dutch banks in the context of the Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on International Responsible Business Conduct and as the head of the social policy team at Barclays.
She is committed to working collaboratively and engaging with stakeholders to explore constructive approaches to identify and manage sustainability risks, with a keen ability to forge consensus to move forward in sensitive contexts and establish fruitful collaborations.