Olga Martin-Ortega
Olga is a Professor of International Law at the School of Law, University of Greenwich, where she is Director of Research and Enterprise, Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees and leads the Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group. She has been researching business and human rights for two decades. She has also undertaken extensive research in the areas of post-conflict reconstruction, transitional justice and international criminal law.
Prior to joining the University of Greenwich Olga was Senior Research Fellow and member of the Management Team of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict at the University of East London. She has a PhD in International Law from the University of Jaen and a Law degree from the University of Sevilla (Spain).
Olga is a member of the Board of Trustees of Electronics Watch, Corporate Justice UK (formerly CORE coalition) and a member of the Board of Directors of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium.
She has written extensively on public procurement and human rights, including the co-edited volume Public Procurement and Human Rights: Opportunities, Risks and Dilemmas for the State as Buyer (Edward Elgar, 2019).
SAPIENS PROJECT ROLE
Olga supervises ESR 8 and co-supervises ESR 7.
Olga works with the Modern Slavery Prevention Unit of the UK Home Office, the Local Government Association, the Higher Education Procurement Academy and the OSCE training public sector buyers, producing professional guidance and supporting them in their development of human rights due diligence in their supply chain and modern slavery reporting. She has advised the EU Parliament on mandatory human rights due diligence regulation and is currently working with the ILO on Fair Labour Recruitment and Human Rights.
