Laura Treviño Lozano

PhD candidate · SAPIENS Network · company speakers →

Academically, Laura Treviño has a multidisciplinary background. She holds a Bachelor of laws (LLB) from Universidad Panamericana (Mexico), a one-year degree on international and comparative studies from Science Po (France), a specialization on human rights from Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain) and a MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Currently, she is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Phd candidate on sustainable public procurement and human rights at the University of Greenwich in London, UK as part of the Sapiens Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Professionally, she designed and managed the first Business and Human Rights Programme in Mexico’s National Human Rights Institution (NHRI). In the NHRI, she held positions as Director, Advisor and Researcher. Her work has focused on capacity-building through designing and implementing guidelines and trainings with multi-stakeholders, awareness-raising, policy advice and field fact-finding on business-related abuses on human rights in public procurement, mining, construction, education, transport and energy industries. She has also collaborated with several UN initiatives and agencies in Tanzania, The Netherlands, Cameroon, and Latin America. She has been panelist in 40+ national, regional and international fora on procurement, business and human rights, including the United Nations in Geneva. She has several publications on responsible business conduct, sustainable public procurement of infrastructure and indigenous consultation.

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