Witold Henisz is the Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. His research—which examines the impact of political hazards on international investment strategy, including efforts by multinational corporations to engage in corporate diplomacy to win the hearts and minds of external stakeholders—has been published in top-ranked journals in international business, management, international studies, and sociology. He is also the author of the book Corporate Diplomacy: Building Reputations and Relationships with External Stakeholders. He has won multiple teaching awards and teaches extensively on the topic of corporate diplomacy in executive education programs. Henisz is also a principal at PRIMA LLC, a political risk management consultancy.

As principal of Bennett Freeman Associates LLC and as a senior advisor to BSR, Freeman advises multinational corporations, foundations, and NGOs on international human rights and labor rights. He is chair of the advisory board of Global Witness; co-founder and board secretary of the Global Network Initiative; chair of the advisory board of the Responsible Sourcing Network; and serves on the governing board of the Natural Resources Governance Institute. He co-founded and serves on the board of advisors of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark.

Freeman has previously served as senior vice president for sustainability research and policy at Calvert Investments, managing director for global corporate responsibility at Burson-Marstelle, and principal of Sustainable Investment Strategies. Freeman served as a Clinton presidential appointee in three positions at the U.S. Department of State: as deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor; senior advisor to Under Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Stuart Eizenstat; and as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs and chief speechwriter for Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was manager of corporate affairs for GE after beginning his career as a speechwriter and presidential campaign aide to former Vice President Walter Mondale. 

Freeman authored <em>Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders</em> for the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and International Service for Human Rights.  Launched in September 2018, the report provides analytical and operational guidance for companies and was endorsed by the American Bar Association in August 2019.

Linsi Crain serves as manager of global social performance in Chevron’s Corporate Responsibility department. Her team helps brings Chevron’s purpose of enabling human progress to life around the world with a focus on best practices in stakeholder engagement, building social license, and investing in communities. Over the last two decades, Crain has served in various roles of increasing responsibility across the energy industry in California, London, Kazakhstan, Houston, and Oklahoma.

Jenny leads BSR’s human rights practice across consulting and collaboration.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenny worked at Mercy Corps for over a decade in both field management and advisory roles to better understand, prevent, and mitigate conflict. As the organization’s first Peace & Governance Director in Myanmar and later as the Director of the Peace & Conflict technical advisory team, she launched, built, and implemented programs that aimed to reduce violence, build the preconditions for peace and development, and address critical and emerging threats – from climate change and disruptive technology to poor governance and gender inequality. She has experience in context analysis, stakeholder engagement, mediation and negotiation, project design and implementation, and strategic planning. Jenny has lived and worked in countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon. 

Jenny holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.