CECELY RICHARD-CARVAJAL

As a Manager at Article One, Cecely works across all pillars of the firm’s work, supporting companies to meet their responsibility to respect human rights. She works closely with clients to conduct human rights impact assessments that strengthen their approaches to identifying, assessing, and addressing human rights risks in practice, while ensuring that the perspectives and experiences of rightsholders are meaningfully reflected.

As a member of Article One’s Regulatory Alignment Center of Excellence, Cecely leverages her legal training to support companies in preparing for and aligning with emerging mandatory human rights due diligence legislation. She also plays a leading role in the firm’s responsible technology practice, including through her work with the Business Roundtable on AI and Human Rights.

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.