Axel Marx is Deputy Director Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven. His research interests include voluntary sustainability standards, business and human rights, global governance and EU trade policy. He has worked as an expert for inter alia the European Parliament, the European Commission, International Labour Organization, United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards and several governments and private organizations. On human rights he has published inter alia in ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, World Trade Review, European Yearbook on Human Rights, Business and Politics, Global Policy and International Labour Review.