Nom complet
Elin Wrzoncki
Profession
Department Director Human Rights and Business
Entreprise
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Biographie

Elin Wrzoncki is Department Director for Human Rights and Business at the Danish Institute for Human Rights since June 2020. Between 2014 and 2020 she was Programme Manager of the Business & Accountability Programme. Elin has extensive experience with the intersection between business and human rights and in working directly with various actors including business actors, NHRIs and civil society. Amongst other projects she has developed a blended learning programme for NHRIs on business and human rights, she has also supported the development of tools and methods for state actors on the implementation of business and human rights standards in particular through National Action Plans. She led DIHR’s contribution to the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business and in particular worked on a Sector-Wide Impact Assessment of the mining sector. Before joining DIHR in 2014, she was the Head of the Globalization and Human Rights Desk at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), where she was in particular supporting national human rights NGOs to document business impacts on human rights and advocating for corporate accountability. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Sciences from Sciences-Po in Paris (1999) and from Uppsala University in Sweden (2000).

Elin Wrzoncki