Flex

Paul is the President of Manufacturing and Services, and former Chief Human Resource Officer at Flex Ltd.—the third largest global electronics manufacturing services company by revenue, with approximately 175,000 employees across 30+ countries. In addition to his corporate career, Paul conducts academic research in the areas of sustainable human resource management, migration and SDGs.

Copenhagen Business School

Mary Yoko is Honorary Professor of International Business at the Copenhagen Business School. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, having served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies for two consecutive elected terms (2011-2016). She is internationally recognized as an expert in cross-cultural management, ethno-methodology and qualitative studies of complex cultural organizational phenomena.

University of Reading

Chris is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He had substantial experience as a practitioner and gained his doctorate from the London School of Economics before becoming an academic. He researches in the field of international and comparative Human Resource Management, and has published more than twenty-five books and well over two hundred articles.

RCW Strategic Consulting Ltd

Rachel is a Strategic Business and Human Rights Consultant. She spent 16 years at Unilever, where she served as the Global Head of Human Rights, guiding the company’s strategy, policies, reporting, and advocacy on human rights. Earlier in her career, Rachel worked at the UK Prime Minister’s Office at 10 Downing Street and served as Head of International Relations for the Labour Party. Listen to Rachel’s podcast series BHR Unfiltered.

Senior Development Economist and International Policy Advisor

Jason specializes in migration, development, forced displacement, diaspora engagement, and skills. He is a Research Affiliate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, an Associate at ECDPM, and co-leads the IRD CoSAV on Migration. Until 2025, he headed the Migration and Skills Unit at the OECD Development Centre, where he worked for 18 years. He advises international organizations and governments on migration and development policy, including through assignments with IOM and other partners.

Pepperdine University

Cristina is Dean's Distinguished Professor of Management at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Her expertise is at the nexus of organizational science, international management, and cross-cultural psychology. For three consecutive years, she has been awarded the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Distinction, indicating that she is among the top 1% in the world in terms of impact in the fields of Economic and Business disciplines based on citation counts.

Harvard Business School

William (Bill) is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the Unit Head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and the Faculty Chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award.

Fragomen

Raj Mann is an Immigration Advisory Director at Fragomen, a global immigration services firm, and a Fellow of its Center for Strategy and Applied Insights. With over 17 years’ experience in the UK and Singapore, she advises multinational organizations on global workforce strategy, resilience during crises, and the impact of geopolitical shifts on immigration policy. Raj is also pursuing a PhD, focusing on immigration law as a technology of belonging, the ‘migratisation’ of British citizenship, and how transnational and geopolitical forces shape identity and belonging.

Ethical Impact

Neill is the former Head of the Migrant Workers Programme at the Institute for Human Rights and Business, where he oversaw the development of the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity: a key framework addressing the challenges faced by migrant workers at all stages of the migration cycle. Neill also led work to promote responsible recruitment and the Employer Pays Principle. He is now an independent consultant specializing in migrant workers’ rights.

University of Oxford

Alex is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs and William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His research examines the political economy of refugee protection, refugees’ access to socio-economic rights and opportunities, the role of refugees in world politics, international refugee assistance, and humanitarian innovation. He has conducted field research across East Africa and Southern Africa, and his TED Talks on refugees and migration have garnered more than five million views.

EiQ by LRQA

Kevin is CEO of EiQ and Chief Product Officer and Chief Growth Officer at LRQA, a global business assurance company operating in more than 150 countries with over 5,000 employees. He brings extensive expertise in compliance, supply chain risk, cybersecurity, and ESG, advising multinational companies on sustainability reporting and the development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies. Kevin holds a master’s degree in Policy and Planning and a PhD from Warwick Business School.

University of Manchester

Philip holds the Sir Terry Leahy Chair of Urban and Regional Economics at The Productivity Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School. He specializes in spatial economics and economic geography and is one of the UK’s most highly cited social scientists. He was a member of Labour’s Commission on the UK’s Future, led by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and gave evidence to the Commission on the UK’s Future report on geographic inequality in the UK. He has also served as a Special Advisor to two European Commissioners and advised the European Commission, the OECD, the European Investment Bank, government ministries, and research institutes in several countries.

The World Bank Group

At the time of his service on Migration, Business & Society Advisory Board, Dilip Ratha was Lead Economist and Economic Adviser to the Vice President of Operations at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank. He is also the Founder of KNOMAD (the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development), a World Bank–hosted global hub for migration research and policy dialogue that operated from 2013 to 2023. According to the New York Times, “No one has done more than Mr. Ratha to make migration and its potential rewards a top-of-the-agenda concern in the world’s development ministries.”