ANDREW SLIGHT | SENIOR ASSOCIATE
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As a Senior Associate at Shift, Andrew advises companies and financial institutions on how to put the UNGPs into practice, with a particular focus on the nexus between human rights and climate change. Andrew combines expertise in environmental issues with experience developing and implementing human rights policies, due diligence approaches, reporting and grievance systems at major multinational companies.
Prior to Shift, Andrew worked in public policy and sustainability roles at Tesco in the UK and PepsiCo in both the UK and the US. He has worked across a wide range of challenging issues, leading company approaches to land rights, labor rights in apparel and palm oil supply chains and the provision of access to remedy for affected stakeholders, among many others.
Andrew has extensive experience engaging with affected stakeholders to set environmental and human rights priorities, improve company goals and commitments, and address specific challenges and grievances raised directly, and through proxies. He is also an expert in the connections between human rights and a responsible approach to corporate political engagement.
Andrew has a law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is based in New York City.
