GBCAT is composed of global businesses from across sectors committed to ending all forms of human trafficking. Founding members have access to all workstreams and join the initiative’s decision-making body, the Steering Committee. Associate members participate in one of the initiative’s workstreams and do not exercise voting rights.
Founding Members
Associate Members
Advisors
Members of the Advisory Group are individual experts or representatives of relevant organizations. They are selected based on their expertise on the intersections between technology, modern slavery, human trafficking and forced labor research, programming, and advising, including to business.
Amb. Mark Lagon, Chief Policy Officer, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Theresa Loar, BSR Senior Advisor and Former Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs, CH2M
Phil Bennett
The Global Initiative
The OSCE
RESPECT
Survivor Alliance
TechUK
Unseen
A BSR Collaboration
BSR provides executive leadership and secretariat support for GBCAT. BSR is a global nonprofit business network and consultancy dedicated to sustainability. BSR collaborations bring together more than 400 companies, spanning multiple sectors and geographies, to strengthen company performance, improve markets and industries, and contribute to systemic change for a more just and sustainable world.
BSR Staff
Claudio Formisano
Associate Director, Human Rights
+ About Claudio
Claudio leads BSR’s portfolio on addressing modern slavery, human trafficking, and forced labor. He develops guidance for companies seeking to prevent and mitigate human trafficking and forced labor risks and advances policies to scale impact through BSR’s collaborative initiatives like Tech Against Trafficking, the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and Building Responsibly.
He brings 15 years of experience in managing multidisciplinary programs on criminal justice, human rights, and security in multilateral settings. Prior to joining BSR, he worked at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), establishing and leading the Secretariat of the UN Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT). As a senior advisor to the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), he oversaw country needs assessments in North America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
Claudio holds a MA in Advanced International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria and an Executive Certificate from Harvard JFK School of Government in building and leading diverse organizations. He speaks English, French, and Italian.
alice pease
Manager, Human Rights
+ About Alice
Alice advises companies across industries on human rights strategies, assessments and multi-stakeholder collaboration, with a particular focus on anti-trafficking. She manages the Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT) and Building Responsibly collaborative initiatives.
Prior to joining BSR, Alice managed a campaign at the British Parliament on an initiative to strengthen the supply chain transparency requirements of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Previously, she had policy and research roles with a human rights focus at the Argentine Council for International Relations, the European Commission, and the Italian National Research Council. Alice is the co-author of Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, published by Polity in 2018.
Alice holds an MA in International Relations: Latin America—Europe from the University of Bologna and an MA in History and Spanish from the University of Edinburgh. She speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Kelly metcalf
Manager, Human Rights
+ About Kelly
Kelly works with BSR member companies to develop sustainability strategies, assess human rights impacts, and engage rightsholders. Her areas of expertise include modern slavery and anti-human trafficking and the rights of workers and communities in the energy transition. Kelly works with companies across industries, including renewable energy and extractives and consumer products.
Prior to joining BSR, Kelly worked as a consultant on various human rights projects, including issues of modern slavery and labor rights in global supply chains. Kelly has also worked extensively on women’s rights, including two years leading a women’s economic empowerment program in Surkhet, Nepal and four years working with the United Nations Foundation on international reproductive health and rights.
Kelly holds an MA in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University.
Kathryn Doyle
Manager, Technology and Human Rights
+ About Kathryn
Kathryn works with BSR member companies at the intersection of technology and human rights issues.
Prior to joining BSR, Kathryn worked for Global Partners Digital where she led programs and advocacy efforts - working with civil society organizations, governments and companies - with a focus on business and human rights within the tech sector, platform regulation and content governance. Previously she worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Brussels, Economic Mobility Pathways in Boston and as a high school teacher in the Federated States of Micronesia. She has experience developing and implementing organizational strategies and complex projects as well as with obtaining and managing large, multi-year public and privately funded grants, notably from the U.S. Department of State and European Commission.
Kathryn holds a Masters in Social Work from Boston College, with a focus on global policy issues and organizational management, and a BA in English from Loyola University Maryland.
Lale Tekişalp
Associate Director, Technology Sectors
+ About Lale
Lale works with BSR member companies across industries to incorporate human rights into business operations and strategy. She focuses on the intersection of human rights and technology, and she leads the Tech Against Trafficking collaborative initiative.
Prior to BSR, Lale worked with the Partnership on AI to help build its AI for Social Good strategy. Previously, she held several different marketing roles at Microsoft, where she played a key role in establishing the company's cloud business across Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa.
Lale holds a MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, where she focused on responsible business and social sector leadership. She received a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.