Margaret Wachenfeld is the Director of Legal Affairs at the Institute for Human Rights and Business where she leads the think tank’s programme on due diligence. Prior to that, she spent six years as a Senior Policy Adviser on children’s rights at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Earlier, Ms. Wachenfeld was principal external advisor on human rights for the International Finance Corporation (IFC, World Bank Group). She also advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) on human rights and environmental issues. She also served as a staff lawyer at IFC where she worked on the environmental and social dimensions of IFC’s investments first in the legal department then in the Environment and Social Development Department.  She was a senior associate with the law firm of White & Case for seven years where she had a corporate and environmental law practice. She has a PhD in human rights law from the University of Copenhagen, a Masters’ in international and comparative law and a juris Doctor degree from Duke University Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Wellesley College in the US.