Law firm Associates
Laura Treviño Lozano
Associate
Professional Background
- She is a specialist in social sustainability and human rights.
- Associate Researcher at the Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group of the University of Greenwich, U.K.
- Member of the Responsible Procurement Advisory Group of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium.
- She collaborates with the UN Business and Human Security initiative in coordination with the London School of Economics and Political Science Ideas.
- She designed and managed the first Business and Human Rights Program of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission.
- She has participated in consultations, seminars and trainings in national and international forums such as the United Nations at Geneva.
- She is fluent in Spanish, English and French.
Academic Background
- Master's degree in social sciences in sustainable development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
- Specialization in human rights from Universidad Castilla-la Mancha, Spain.
- Diploma in Cultural Heritage, Development and Megaprojects at the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico.
- Diploma in political science and social studies from the Institut d'études Politiques de Toulouse, France.
- Law degree with honors from Universidad Panamericana, Mexico.
Human Rights and Social Sustainability
- She collaborated with the National Human Rights Commission where she held the following positions: research assistant, researcher, advisor and director of the first Business and Human Rights Program, her work focused on the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights with different stakeholders such as government, business, civil society and communities.
- She has experience in the implementation of social sustainability for sustainable infrastructure development, particularly in the enhancement of positive social impacts and in the identification, prevention and mitigation of negative social impacts of projects.
- She is experienced in the resolution of social conflicts between companies and communities through dialogue, negotiation, mediation and conciliation in the transportation, construction, mining and energy sectors, as well as in the design and implementation of operational mechanisms in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
- She has provided advice on the development of public policies, legal amendments and tools for the implementation of corporate responsibility to respect the human rights of workers, communities and users in public procurement for the construction and operation of road, air and rail transportation infrastructure projects.
- She provided advice to the Danish Institute for Human Rights for the proof reading of the toolkit: Driving change through public procurement: Human rights tools for professionals and policy makers in public procurement policy formulation. She developed a diagnostic study of the economic and financial, environmental, social and institutional sustainability of the Mexican legal framework applicable to road infrastructure, based on the Inter-American Development Bank's Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure, as well as the design of recommendations for improvement and public procurement policy to fill legal loopholes.
- She advises the Procurement Expert Group Responsible for the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) on measures to improve sustainability practices in the procurement of goods and services by member universities to achieve sustainable and responsible public procurement and to assess the social and environmental compliance of new suppliers
- She is collaborating with the United Nations Business and Human Security initiative with research for the implementation of the Human Security Business Partnership Framework based on the construction of participatory and inclusive multi-stakeholder alliances that generate shared value and class actions to improve the local conditions in which the companies operate.
- She has conducted over 20 trainings, workshops and consultations with indigenous communities, public companies such as the CFE, private construction and mining companies, federal government entities such as the Ministry of Communications and Transportation and the Secretariat of Energy which provided tools and knowledge for the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda.
- She is experienced in field research on environmental and social impacts derived from the development of infrastructure projects with special emphasis on indigenous peoples and communities and people with disabilities, conducting several investigations such as the case of the construction of the 'Paso Exprés' Mexico-Cuernavaca expressway.
- She has participated in international forums as a speaker on the following topics: “Sustainable public procurement” en la 5th World Conference of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association, Essex, United Kingdom, as well as on "Public Procurement, Covid-19 and Human Rights" at the Fifth United Nations Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights for Latin America and the Caribbean.
- She has experience in transitional justice systems and the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, having collaborated with the Office of the Prosecutor in the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in Tanzania and the Netherlands in the prosecution of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
- She coordinated and is the author of several publications related to sustainable infrastructure and the implementation of prior consultation of indigenous peoples in development projects.