Best Practices in Supply Chain Due Diligence

Alison supports companies in embedding respect for human rights across their organizations and value chain. She brings a strong, collaborative spirit and expertise in developing and implementing strategies and governance, due diligence, and engagement mechanisms to effectively manage human rights risks. 

Alison joined BSR from BT Group plc, a BSR member company, where she led the development of a new human rights strategy geared at ensuring a responsible approach to how the organization buys, sells, develops, and uses technology. Highlights included setting up a new steering group, engaging key internal stakeholders through innovative workshops, and integrating human rights risks in BT’s group risk management framework. Before that, Alison trained and practiced as a corporate lawyer at the global law firm Hogan Lovells, specializing in international arbitration and business and human rights disputes. Her experience included advising a European energy company and its executives against a potential criminal prosecution for complicit liability in war crimes committed by a state military.

Alison holds a LLM in Public International Law and a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Alison is fluent in English and French.

Recent Insights From Alison Berthet

• The CSDDD: Compliance Meets Sustainability Ambitions / June 20, 2024 / Insights+
• A Coherent Approach to Sustainability Due Diligence and Reporting: Making Sense of CSDDD and CSRD / June 17, 2024 / BSR Insights+
• Human Rights in Transport & Logistics / May 2, 2024 / BSR Insights+
• CSDDD: A Pragmatic Approach to Managing Human Rights and Environmental Impacts / April 29, 2024 / BSR Insights+
• Building an Effective Supply Chain Data Ecosystem to Prevent Forced Labor / April 24, 2024 / BSR Insights+

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Renata leads BSR’s Nordic practice, working with a diverse range of sectors and sustainability topics, with primary focus on Value Chain Transformation and Tech.

She helps companies transition towards more ambitious goals and practices in adapting to the continuously more and more demanding regulatory landscape and stakeholder expectations to create a Just and Sustainable World, via adopting more resilient practices, management systems, working collaboratively, and providing the necessary support and incentives to enable meaningful sustainable change.

Renata brings over 20 years of experience in innovation and sustainability in global value chains. Prior to joining BSR, Renata worked in A.P. Møller - Mærsk, Coloplast, Danske Bank, and The Conference Board. She has served on various boards, including Maersk, IKEA Industry, Organic Basics, and the Danish Initiative for Ethical Trade. She was a long-term member of the UN Global Compact Advisory Group on Supply Chain Sustainability and participated in the shaping of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Renata is a First Mover Fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society. She holds a professional degree in global trade; a BSc in Philosophy and Rhetoric from the University of Copenhagen; a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Organisational Leadership and Strategy from SAID Business School, University of Oxford. She speaks English, Danish, Russian, and intermediate French.

Recent Insights From Renata Greenberg

• Strengthening Supply Chain Sustainability: Eight Dimensions for Responsible Business / July 17, 2025 / BSR Insights+
• Integrity in a Permacrisis: Maintaining Sustainability and Human Rights Principles as Supply Chains Upend / April 9, 2025 / BSR Insights+
• CSDDD: Using a Risk-Based Approach to Address Human Rights and Environmental Impacts in Supply Chains / February 6, 2025 / BSR Insights+
• Demystifying Social KPIs under CSRD: Six Recommendations for Business / March 6, 2024 / BSR Insights+
• Inside BSR: Q&A with Renata Greenberg (née Frolova-Hammer) / February 23, 2023 / BSR Insights+

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