Inside the ICAR Studio with Motoko Aizawa
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IHRB's Motoko Aizawa will be participating in the latest speaker series organised by the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) on 24 August 2016, 16:30 EST.
The “Inside the ICAR Studio” Speaker Series is an initiative to empower the next generation of advocates, lawyers, and campaigners with access to innovators and path-pavers from the human rights, labor rights and environmental justice movement.
IHRB's Managing Director for the USA, Motoko Aizawa is an expert on environmental, social and governance dimensions of sustainability, as well as policy initiatives to help governments and companies improve their sustainability performance, particularly in the financial and extractives sectors.
She is the principal author of the 2006 IFC Performance Standards, and the human rights provisions in the 2012 version of these Standards. Before joining IHRB, Motoko led efforts by the World Bank to update its Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies. Motoko is a member of the Human Rights Commission of the District of Columbia, a civic group appointed by the Government of Washington, DC that adjudicates private sector discrimination complaints brought under the D.C. Human Rights Act.