Moira is Head of Business and Human Rights, and a core member of our sustainability practice. She has broad international experience across all aspects of sustainability, with a particular focus on governance, integrated risk management, and reporting advice.
Moira spent twelve years working in senior roles at BT and Vodafone, leading work on responsible business conduct, environmental management, and human and digital rights. She has deep experience applying both legal requirements and global standards, such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, to international business operations. Her work has included human rights governance and policy development, stakeholder engagement, due diligence assessments, artificial intelligence ethics, children's rights, operating in conflict settings, digital rights, sports broadcasting, and supply chain standards and management.
Moira is described by Legal 500 as an authority on human rights governance and risk management practices. She frequently speaks, and chairs panels, at sustainability conferences. She is an active member of the Business and Human Right Lawyers Association, and chairs the Responsible Business Conduct group at techUK. She is the author of a chapter on sports broadcasting and human rights in the Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights.
Advisory work includes:
- Sustainability governance, due diligence and reporting frameworks for companies in the finance, luxury retail, consumer goods and engineering sectors
- Assisting companies in human rights training, policy development and crisis management responses
- Numerous companies, across multiple sectors including tech, luxury retail, pharmaceutical and finance, on modern slavery reporting requirements
- The EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Due Diligence Directives, Forced Labour Regulation and Deforestation Regulation: advising numerous clients on whether they are in scope and when, their regulatory obligations and undertaking policy gap analyses to plan a path for compliance
- A multinational group on its revised health and safety policy for their UK operations and health and safety policy framework for the entire group
- A multi-state collaboration on an agreement for the transfer of e-waste between them in compliance with the Basel Convention and other relevant treaties
- Various companies on operating in, and sourcing from, conflict affected countries
Moira is a trustee of the Board of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights.
Her work has been recognised by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards and she was the winner of the Legal 500 Corporate Social Responsibility Award.