Dunstan serves as an advisor to BSR and its member companies on issues at the intersection of tech and human rights.
Previously, Dunstan led BSR’s information and communications technology, heavy manufacturing, and human rights teams.
He brings significant experience working on a diverse range of engagements and issues, including human rights due diligence, privacy and freedom of expression, sustainability reporting and strategy, and stakeholder engagement.
Dunstan facilitated the multistakeholder process of developing global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. He also helped create the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a collaborative initiative of more than 100 ICT companies improving conditions in their supply chains. Dunstan participated in the process of creating the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines, and he is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, reporting, and human rights. He also co-authored the 2010 book Big Business, Big Responsibilities.
Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications' corporate responsibility team.
Dunstan has an M.Prof. in Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.
Insights From Dunstan Allison-Hope
- Effective Engagement with Technology Companies / May 23, 2024 / Reports
- 25 Insights, 25 Years / April 17, 2024 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights and the Future of Compliance with Dunstan Allison-Hope / November 28, 2023 / Audio
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Tech Coalition’s Lantern Program / November 7, 2023 / BSR Insights+
- Tech Coalition Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Lantern Program / November 7, 2023 / Reports
- How New Regulations Are a Game-Changer in Just and Sustainable Business / June 1, 2023 / Insights+
- Twitch Human Rights Impact Assessment / April 18, 2023 / Reports
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Twitch / April 18, 2023 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Due Diligence of Meta’s Impacts in Israel and Palestine in May 2021 / September 22, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- “And” May Be the Most Important Word / September 14, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Everywhere All at Once / September 8, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- How the SEC Can Mandate Climate-Related Disclosures and Drive Corporate Action / June 8, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- A Human Rights Assessment of Meta’s Expansion of End-to-End Encryption / April 4, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- Applying the UNGPs to Technology: Our Point of View / March 7, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- Impact-Based Materiality / February 3, 2022 / BSR Insights+
- The Stars Are Aligning / October 8, 2021 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Are Not Just an “ESG Factor” / September 23, 2021 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Impact Assessment: Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism / July 20, 2021 / Reports
- A Human Rights Assessment of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) / July 20, 2021 / BSR Insights+
- Responsible Product Use in the SaaS Sector / July 15, 2021 / Reports
- The Shared Opportunity to Promote: A Second-Decade Priority for the UNGPs / June 22, 2021 / Reports
- The Case for SEC-Mandated Climate and ESG Disclosure / June 17, 2021 / BSR Insights+
- Science: A Human Right for Our Times / April 20, 2021 / BSR Insights+
- Beyond Former User @realdonaldtrump: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Governance / March 2, 2021 / BSR Insights+
- One Year On: A Human Rights Review of the Oversight Board / December 21, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. / December 15, 2020 / Reports
- COVID-19 and Beyond: Technology, Responsible Decision Making, and Public Health Emergencies / December 15, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Is Your Company Ready for the Future of Reporting? / October 6, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- A New Social Contract That Enables Social Justice / July 30, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Why Worker Data Protection Should Be Central to a 21st-Century Social Contract / July 9, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- The Business Role in Creating a 21st-Century Social Contract / June 24, 2020 / Reports
- A Post-COVID-19 Agenda for Sustainability Reporting / May 19, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook In Cambodia / May 12, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Sustainability Reporting and Early Lessons from COVID-19 / May 4, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- The Urgency of a New Social Contract / April 1, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- COVID-19: A Rapid Human Rights Due Diligence Tool for Companies / March 30, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Innovative Approaches for the Technology Sector / February 25, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Applying UNGPs in the Technology Sector / February 11, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- Five Insights on the Future of Reporting from Uber’s Safety Report / January 21, 2020 / BSR Insights+
- A Human Rights Review of the Facebook Oversight Board / December 12, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Google’s Human Rights by Design / October 30, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Q&A with BSR Senior Advisor Susan Morgan / October 7, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Responsible Use of Technology / September 20, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights Insights: Trends from the Human Rights Working Group’s Spring Meeting / July 8, 2019 / Reports
- Is Stakeholder Engagement the Key to Successful Community Standards? / June 19, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Time’s Up: Women Should Be Front and Center of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence / June 3, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: We Need to Talk about the Use Phase / May 15, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Supply Chain Sustainability in a Rapidly Changing World / April 16, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- A New Transparency Challenge for Business and Human Rights / February 25, 2019 / BSR Insights+
- Five Reporting Trends for 2019: Insights on the Future of Reporting / February 19, 2019 / Reports
- Are You Prepared for the Future of Business and Human Rights? / December 11, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Our Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook in Myanmar / November 5, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Four Reflections on the Human Rights Implications of Artificial Intelligence / October 25, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Artificial Intelligence: A Rights-Based Blueprint for Business / August 28, 2018 / Reports
- A Human Rights-Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence / August 28, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Announcing a New Collaboration Using Tech to Combat Human Trafficking / June 28, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Three Hot Debates in Sustainability Reporting Today / February 5, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- A Practitioner’s View of Sustainability Reporting: Challenges and Solutions / February 5, 2018 / Reports
- Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility / Medium / February 1, 2018 / News
- Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World / January 29, 2018 / Reports
- The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On / January 18, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Seven Things Every Company Should Know about Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Business / January 11, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Children’s Rights Online: A Conversation with UNICEF / January 3, 2018 / BSR Insights+
- Surveying the Human Rights Landscape: Collaboration on the Rise / December 10, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- Remedy against the Machine / December 6, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- The Sustainability Reporting Landscape: Q&A with GRI and SASB / November 30, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- The Sustainability Form 10-K: A Proposal / November 9, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- Introducing the Sustainable Business Playbook / September 26, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- Insights from Telia Company’s Human Rights Impact Assessments / July 12, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- Human Rights by Design / February 17, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- Calling All Sustainability Reporting Practitioners / February 15, 2017 / BSR Insights+
- Rethinking Stakeholder Engagement for the New Millennium: Part I / FCPA Compliance Report / November 1, 2016 / News
- Big Data and Human Rights: 5 Frequently Asked Questions / September 20, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- Boldly Moving Beyond the Hype of Hyper-Transparency / August 3, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- The Future of Reporting Is Triangular / July 18, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with the IIRC / July 13, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with GRI / June 29, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with SASB / June 24, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- The Fallacy of the Apple and Orange Defense for Sustainability Reporting / May 16, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- Translating the Climate Agreement into Business Strategies: BSR’s Four-Part Methodology / May 3, 2016 / BSR Insights+
- Inclusive by Design: BSR’s Project on Technology and Access in China / December 2, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- Can Global Companies Increase Renewables Use in Chinese Supply Chains? / September 16, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- How to Fix Reporting / July 24, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- Is Reporting Bloated, Burdensome, and Broken? / July 17, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- The Internet of Green Electronics / July 13, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- Sustainability Reporting: A Love-Hate Story / April 24, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- Don’t Forget the Ethics / April 6, 2015 / BSR Insights+
- Sustainability in the ICT Industry: Our 2015 Plan / December 15, 2014 / BSR Insights+
- Why We Are Measuring Our Impact at BSR / November 21, 2014 / BSR Insights+
- How Tech Companies Can Engage with (Billions of) Users on Human Rights / September 17, 2014 / BSR Insights+
- Does Transparency Matter? / August 11, 2014 / BSR Insights+
- What Vodafone’s New Law-Enforcement Report Says About the Future of Sustainability Reporting / June 11, 2014 / BSR Insights+
- Law Enforcement Reporting Shouldn’t Stop with the Telcos / March 10, 2014 / BSR Insights+
- Integrated Report, or Integrated Reporting? / September 10, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- Navigating the Materiality Muddle / August 13, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- Take That, Cynics! As Companies Detail PRISM Involvement, Transparency Proves Its Value / June 18, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- In the Era of PRISM, ‘Knowing and Showing’ on Human Rights / June 13, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- Planning for GRIIIRCSASB: How to Untangle Sustainability Reporting Strategy / April 25, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- What the New Telecommunications Human Rights Principles Mean / March 27, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- Microsoft Reports: What ïthe LawÍ Is Asking of Internet Companies / March 22, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- My Wish List for the Information and Communications Technology Industry / March 1, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- Zero Dark Thirty: The Human Rights Responsibilities of Entertainment Companies / February 24, 2013 / BSR Insights+
- An ICT Company’s To-Do List on Human Rights / October 2, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- The GRI Misses Some of the Most Important Human Rights Issues of Our Age / August 1, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- Taking Ethics to the Cloud / April 10, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- Time to Open the Myanmar Office? / April 5, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- Top Five Reporting Mistakes (An Unofficial List) / March 15, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- Sustainability Reports: Worth the Effort? / February 15, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- Transparency in China: A New Generation of Sustainability Reports / January 24, 2012 / BSR Insights+
- Integrated Reporting: A New Vision for Disclosure / October 4, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- Four Improvements for the Global Reporting Initiative’s ‘G4’ Guidelines / September 20, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- VIDEO: How the Tech Sector Should Address Human Rights / August 16, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- Four Priorities for the Tech Sector in Applying the New UN Guiding Principles / July 27, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- The Danger of ‘Web 2.0’ Enthusiasm for Sustainability Reporting / July 25, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- A Letter from San Francisco / May 17, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- Technology, Collaboration, and Human Rights: A Slightly Unfair (but Somewhat Useful) Comparison / April 14, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- Egypt and the Realization of Human Rights in the Digital Age / February 14, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- Egypt and the Complicated Ethics of the Telecommunications Industry / February 1, 2011 / BSR Insights+
- Protecting Human Rights in a Networked Age / August 6, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- The Big Responsibilities of Big Business / July 20, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- What Does the Global Network Initiative Tell Us About the Value of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives? / July 9, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- Google and China: When Should Business Leave on Human Rights Grounds? / March 22, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- Comparing Like With Like: Privacy, Security, and Content Issues / March 2, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- Should You Stay or Should You Go? What’s the ‘Right’ Decision on Entering or Leaving a Market? / February 23, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- BSR Debates: Should Sustainability Reporting Be Mandatory? / February 2, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- Mandatory Reporting: BSR Debates the Pros & Cons of Requiring Companies to Report on Sustainability / February 2, 2010 / BSR Insights+
- Integrating Financial and Corporate Responsibility Reporting / November 10, 2009 / BSR Insights+
- ICT as a Sustainability Solution: Moving from Theory to Practice / September 1, 2009 / BSR Insights+