Céline Da Graça Pires - Consulting
Enhancing Corporate Due Diligence to Safeguard Human Rights and the Environment
WHO WE ARE
We are a business and human rights consultancy that helps companies to continuously improve their human rights performance.
Our approach focuses on the implementation of robust and ongoing human rights due diligence processes that enable companies to systematically identify, prevent and mitigate potential and actual human rights risks. We leverage the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) as a fundamental compass, complemented by a holistic understanding of both soft law and hard law regulatory landscapes.
We help companies transform human rights considerations from compliance obligations into real opportunities for positive and transformative impact on the ground, through meaningful stakeholder engagement and appropriate responses to adverse impacts.
Céline da Graça Pires
Céline da Graça Pires, is a Business and Human Rights Advisor and qualified French lawyer. Céline has been involved in the field of business and human rights for over a decade, working with companies from diverse sectors to strengthen their human rights performance using the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as the guiding North Star.
She has extensive experience of working with stakeholders from around the world, including indigenous and tribal peoples and affected communities. Passionate about fieldwork, she has conducted Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) and led community engagement around the world, including in high-risk contexts. Recent fieldwork includes Mozambique, Belize, Honduras, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Argentina and France in the agriculture, logistics, extractive and renewable energy industries.
She leads a special task force at the UN Global Compact France to develop the first French business guide on best practices for meaningful engagement with indigenous peoples and affected communities, to be published by the first half of 2025.
She is also a Research Associate & Lecturer at the NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights, and the Environment (Portugal) & Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany).
Céline is a native speaker of Portuguese, Spanish and French. She is fluent in English and conversational in Italian.
Juliette Lemaire
Juliette is a sustainability consultant specializing in human rights and environmental impact management. She has experience in conducting fieldwork, stakeholder engagement and facilitating cross-sector collaboration.
Prior to working with Céline, Juliette worked at VEJA, a French manufacturer and internationally renowned brand of ecological and recycled sneakers, where she focused on identifying and mitigating environmental impacts. She worked directly with suppliers in production and gained hands-on experience in managing environmental challenges. Juliette was involved in field trips to Brazil and Uruguay where she developed a deep understanding of the complexities of the supply chain and worked closely with suppliers to implement sustainable practices and reduce their environmental footprint.
Earlier in her career, Juliette worked at BSR, supporting human rights impact assessments and coordinating stakeholder engagement workshops and multi-stakeholder coalition platform dialogues. She also co-authored a report on the impact of just transition in the fashion industry.
Juliette graduated from Kedge Business School with a Masters in Corporate Social Responsibility.
Juliette’s mother tongue is French. She is fluent in English and conversant in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.
