Profiles

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is the research director for the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. She oversees the Center’s research activities, including development of academic publications, case studies, the Center’s forthcoming textbook, and other teaching resources. Dorothée is a co-author of Five Years After Rana Plaza: The Way Forward.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and MA degrees in management and political science from the University of Constance (Germany) and Rutgers University of New Jersey. She joined NYU Stern in 2013.

Previously, Dorothée was a project officer and consultant for the Fair Labor Association where she helped revise the organization’s core program by developing assessment and impact measurement methodologies. She also oversaw supply chain auditing activities and supported workers’ representation projects in China. Dorothée worked as MFA-Forum country program manager at the London-based thinktank AccountAbility, managing multi-stakeholder dialogues in Bangladesh, Morocco, and Lesotho.

Dorothée also teaches CSR, Business and Human Rights and Business Ethics at HEC Lausanne (Switzerland) and NYU Stern. In 2013, she published a book entitled Managing Corporate Legitimacy – A Toolbox (Greenleaf Publishing).