Alison Biscoe
Alison has a decade of experience engaging international stakeholders, particularly in the private sector, on responsible business and human rights. An experienced project manager, Alison played a key role in the creation and development of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, working with institutional partners through the Centre’s parent organisation since June 2017.
Current work
As Head of Programme Development & Capacity Building, Alison is responsible for developing and overseeing many of the Centre’s programmes on tools development and capacity building. An expert in human rights due diligence, she has authored many of the Centre’s key tools and leads on innovative capacity building programmes to implement these tools and further advance the sport and human rights movement.
Previous experience
Alison joined IHRB in June 2017 as Project Coordinator for the Mega-Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights - the precursor to the Centre. Here she was involved in working with the broad range of stakeholders currently on the Centre’s Advisory Council to build the mandate, strategy, and knowledge base that launched the Centre in 2018.
Before this, she spent three and a half years at the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment where she worked with investors on their corporate engagement activities. She has worked across several sectors and topics covering the full range of environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes. She holds an MSci in International Relations from the University of Nottingham and also attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
