Vicky Bowman

Senior Advisor, IHRB

Vicky Bowman CMG has over thirty-five years experience in international relations and responsible business, including in diplomacy, mining and Myanmar.  She is on the boards of two multistakeholder business and human rights initiatives, focussed on technology, and private security.

Vicky is one of IHRB's Senior Advisors working across a number of human rights themes in sectors including commodities and security. Vicky is the Chair of the Global Network Initiative (GNI), and a member of the Board of the International Code of Conduct Association (ICoCA).

Vicky has been the Director of Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) since July 2013, based in Yangon until November 2022, and currently based in London. She is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL).

From 2011-2013 she led global mining company Rio Tinto's policy approach to transparency, human rights and resource nationalism/resource curse issues. She was Director of Global & Economic Issues and G8 sous-Sherpa for the United Kingdom from 2008-2011 and Head of the Southern Africa Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government from 2006-2007. Vicky served as ambassador of the UK to Myanmar from 2002-2006 and as second secretary in the Embassy from 1990-1993. She has also worked in Brussels as Member of Cabinet of European Commissioner Chris Patten (1999-2002) and as press spokeswoman for the UK representation to the EU (1996-1999).