KERI LLOYD

As a Manager at Article One, Keri works hand in hand with Article One’s clients across all pillars of our work to help them meet their responsibility to respect human rights. She plays a leading role in advancing corporate approaches to rightsholder engagement and alignment with mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence regulation.

In this capacity, Keri designs and executes human rights impact assessments, with a particular focus on meaningful and rights-respecting engagement with workers, communities, and other key stakeholders. Keri works alongside companies to improve the effectiveness of their human rights and environmental programs and develop regulatory alignment strategies, including for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), German Supply Chain Act, EU Forced Labor Ban, and UK Modern Slavery Act, among others. As an organizer of Article One’s Roundtable on Human Rights & AI, Keri supports industry awareness and collaboration on pressing human rights and environmental issues.

Keri is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs where she focused on intersection of business and human rights. As a member of the SIPA Business & Human Rights Clinic, she worked in a small team commissioned by Bonsucro, a global multi-stakeholder initiative for the sugarcane sector, to evaluate the human rights impact of its Production Standard on workers and communities in India. While completing her degree, Keri worked at Twitter and helped four policy teams address user safety, cybercrime, and site integrity issues.

Keri was previously based in London and worked for GQR Research, an opinion research and strategic consulting firm. She gained her quantitative and qualitative research experience by helping to execute dozens of interviews, surveys, and focus groups for multinational companies, trade unions, NGOs, and politicians across the US and Europe. She has also worked with the US & the Americas Programme at Chatham House, and with Physicians for Human Rights’ Asylum Program.

Keri holds a Master of International Affairs in Human Rights & Humanitarian Policy from Columbia SIPA and a B.A. in World Politics from Hamilton College.