CECELY RICHARD-CARVAJAL

As a Senior Associate at Article One, Cecely supports our work in business and human rights, responsible innovation, and sustainability. From Article One’s New York office, Cecely has supported clients across a range of projects, including human rights impact assessments, country-specific risk assessments, human rights policy preparation and regulatory alignment initiatives. Cecely’s background as a lawyer positions her well to help clients with the new and emerging regulatory landscape, including the EU’s Corproate Sustainabiltiy Due Diligence Directive, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the Norwegian Transparency Act and the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Directive.

Prior to joining Article One, Cecely worked as the Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow at NYU Stern’s Center for Business and Human Rights. During her time at NYU Stern, Cecely worked as part of the Technology and Democracy workstream, where she co-authored a report examining manipulated media and digital disinformation risks to 2024 elections. Cecely also led the Center’s efforts to engage with emerging legislative frameworks relating to business and human rights. Her report “Setting Higher Standards: How Governments Can Regulate Corporate Human Rights Performance” provides a roadmap for regulators and companies on navigating the new regulatory era of corporate human rights responsibility.

Cecely holds an L.L.M. degree in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law, where she specialized in international human rights law. During her LLM, Cecely worked as a Human Rights Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. She also completed an internship in the Rule of Law Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary General at the United Nations and provided research support to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights.

Cecely is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales and, before pursuing her LLM, she worked as an Associate in Clifford Chance’s Project, Energy and Infrastructure team in Paris, advising lenders and sponsors on project financings internationally. Cecely speaks Spanish, French, Russian and English and holds an MA from Cambridge University in Modern and Medieval Languages.