BEATRICE PESCE 
Executive Board Member
Areas of activity: Business & Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, Criminal Law, Immigration Law.

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Beatrice joined HRIC since its foundation in 2018 as Core Member, where she focuses on the topic of access to justice and strategic litigation.

She is a PhD candidate at the University of Innsbruck focusing on the field of Business & Human Rights. As a part of her PhD research, she served as a Research Fellow at the University of Tucumán, Argentina where she worked in the context of the Inter-American Human Rights system. 

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After graduating in law both in German and Italian at the University of Innsbruck, she was a legal fellow at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, where she practiced strategic litigation in cases related to the violations of human rights by big corporations.

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She worked for two years in a law firm in Milan dealing with corporate social responsibility, anti-discrimination law, and immigration law. She has been selected to work at UNDOC where she will collaborate on a project focusing on anticorruption and human rights.

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Beatrice is an Italian native speaker and speaks English, German, and Spanish fluently.