Andrea has a degree in Public Accounting and a postgraduate title in Tax Administration. Experience of 4 years as General Administrator in a private company. Independent accountant for 3 years and 2 years of experience in the area of Audit of last Control in the Internal Audit Unit of the Public Sector. In Bogota D.C. she has lived for the past 4 years working as an Accounting, Administrative and Audit Assistant at the level of non-profit organizations (NGOs), legal and natural persons. She has numerical and analytical skills, management of accounting programmes and cost centres, excellent management of the office package, good interpersonal relationships, and mastery of information technology and communication. Andrea is a Venezuelan citizen with a migrant permit in Colombia. Her native language is Spanish and has an average understanding of written English.

Andrea Marcela is a Logistics Technician and is finishing her studies in Industrial Engineering. She has 6 years of experience as Administrative Assistant and 3 years as Management Assistant in private sector companies. She has skills for the organization and development of programmed activities; knowledge in the area of human resources and talent and payroll, handling office package and technological means. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Native language, Spanish.

Fabián Andrés León Peñuela is the Programme Manager, Researcher and Representative of the Colombia Programme. Fabián Andrés León Peñuela has been with the BHRRC since 2019. He has a master’s degree in law with an emphasis on constitutional law, specialised in education and environmental management at the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas and in Justice, Victims and Peace Building at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia as well as Collective Memories, human rights and resistances specialization at Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). He studied law at the National University of Colombia and economics and political science at the University of Montreal (Canada). He also has experience with migrant and refugee populations with whom he worked for more than 6 years in Canada. He has accompanied environmental and human rights training processes with indigenous and rural communities.

Helene joined the Resource Centre as Mexico, CA and the Caribbean Researcher in December 2023. She is a Uruguayan-French lawyer with over seven years of experience in gender, human rights, and access to justice for women, girls, and other vulnerable groups.

Previously, she worked at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in a gender and human rights project. She has worked with United Nations agencies, international organizations, government institutions, and civil society organizations on gender issues, gender-based violence, the protection of journalists and human rights defenders, and the criminal justice system in Mexico and the region. Helene holds an LL.M. in International Criminal Law from the University of Sussex and studies in gender, human rights, and access to justice. Her native tongues are Spanish and French. She is also fluent in English, is currently studying Portuguese, and has basic abilities in Japanese.

Mariana Franco is the Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Researcher and Representative. Mariana is a highly experienced human rights lawyer who has spent over a decade working in positions related to international human rights law. She has served as a consultant for various ESCR projects and has implemented a USAID project focused on Access to Justice for Victims, with a particular emphasis on gender justice. She worked on the design and implementation of the Business and Human Rights Program of the Nationa Human Rights Commission. Mariana has played a crucial role in designing and implementing prompt reparation for victims of human rights violations in cases before the Interamerican Court and Interamerican Commission. She has also served as the Ombudsperson of a municipality in a state of Mexico.

As an academic, Mariana has taught as a University professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana, focusing on business and human rights. She holds an LL.M. in Economic Social and Cultural Rights from the University of Essex and was part of the Human Rights Clinic designing the implementation of ESCR in Colombia. Furthermore, Mariana holds an M.A. in Human Rights and Democracy from FLACSO and diplomas in Business law, and Human Trafficking focusing on children's rights. She also possesses an International Human Rights Law Certificate from the American University.

Marina is a lawyer and historian. Since 2003 she has worked in the areas of human rights, labour rights, social justice and migration, doing so at NGOs and public administration. She has trained public officials on child trafficking; led the Advanced Post for Humanized Services to Migrants (which later became a public policy); coordinated a project to prevent human trafficking in public schools; and coordinated the legal department of an NGO assisting South American immigrants and advocating for public policies on migration.

Marina also worked as a special advisor for the promotion of decent work in the City of São Paulo, coordinating the municipal policy to fight and eradicate slave labour and human trafficking. Together with stakeholders, she wrote the first Municipal Plan for the Eradication of Slave Labour.

She is a member of the editorial board of the Anti-Trafficking Review magazine, published by the Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW). She has authored various articles and books on human trafficking and forced labour.

She was educated at the University of São Paulo (master’s degree in social history) and Pontifical Catholic Univ. of São Paulo (Bachelor of Law). Marina's mother tongue is Portuguese; she is fluent in English and has a good understanding of Spanish. Marina is a national of Brazil.

Meagan joined the Resource Centre in September 2021 as the North America Researcher and Representative. She is a human rights and gender justice advocate and researcher who has collaborated extensively with grassroots communities to achieve systemic change and accountability for human rights abuses. Meagan has worked with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and MADRE to support grassroots partners in their work to achieve feminist peace and gender justice. With the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, she engaged investors to promote human rights and responsible business practices in their investment portfolios. She has also consulted with Inclusive Development International, Human Rights Watch, and the Clinton Foundation on various business and human rights issues. Meagan was an organizer for NARAL Pro-Choice America in New York and helped to set up the NARAL New York City Volunteer Action Council, where she served as Volunteer Deputy Director. Meagan holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Her native language is English, she is fluent in Spanish, has a good working knowledge of Portuguese. Meagan is a national of the United States.

Miguel joined the Resource Centre as a South America Researcher and Representative in 2023. He is a Peruvian lawyer with more than 10 years of experience in the Inter-American System of Human Rights, indigenous peoples and business and human rights. Miguel holds a Master's degree in International Human Rights Law (LL.M) from the University of Notre Dame in the United States of America (Magna Cum Laude).

Before joining the Centre, he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) in Colombia, a lawyer at the Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and as a human rights lawyer at EarthRights International. Currently, he is also a project coordinator of the thematic lines of business and human rights and indigenous peoples in the Rule of Law Programme for Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Silvana joined the Resource Centre as an intern in 2021 in the Mexico, Central America & The Caribbean region. Subsequently, she became a Research Assistant for the region. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations from the University of Monterrey and a Diploma in International and Comparative Studies from Sciences Po Toulouse. During her studies, she worked on coordinating development programs for infants in marginalized areas in her city. Additionally, she was an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey; now she is a Consultant for the Institute. Her mother tongue is Spanish, and she is fluent in English and advanced in French.

Vitória joined the Resource Centre in 2018 as an intern and returned in 2021. She is a national of Brazil and holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of São Paulo (USP). She also has a master's degree in International Law and Human Rights, with a minor in Minority Studies, from Åbo Akademi University, in Finland. Vitória is involved with migration issues, especially forced displacement and environmentally displaced persons. Her work experience includes taking part in the social assistance and protection programmes of the Refugee Reference Center of Caritas Arquidiocesana São Paulo, a UNHCR implementing partner; and being an interpreter of the eligibility interviews with asylum seekers in the General-Coordination of the Brazilian National Committee for the Refugees (CG-CONARE, Ministry of Justice). Vitória's mother tongue is Portuguese, and she is fluent in English and Spanish, and has an advanced French and basic abilities in Arabic.

Juan joined the Resource Centre in 2019. He is a political scientist, a specialist in justice, victims and peacebuilding and has a master's degree in environment and development. He has analysed different human rights legal-political arrangements and has worked in national and international human rights organizations in Colombia.