Human Rights in Business and Sport

Lucy Amis is the Human Rights and Sport Specialist for Unicef UK. She has over fifteen years experience in the field of business and human rights, and since 2012 has focused on finding solutions to adverse human rights impacts of mega-sporting events (MSEs).

In her role at Unicef UK, Lucy is working with the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to embed human rights into the CGF's governance, management systems and operations, and working with Games hosts to integrate human rights due diligence and child safeguarding into the planning, delivery and legacy of the next two Commonwealth Youth Games (2017 and 2021) and Commonwealth Games (2018 and 2022). 

Prior to joining Unicef UK in late 2016, Lucy was the research lead on the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) mega-sporting events work from 2011-2016, covering policy research, day-to-day management, partner relations, and giving strategic advice to MSE Organising Committees in Glasgow (2014), Rio (2016) and Tokyo (2020). She remains a Research Fellow with IHRB.

From 2000-2009 Lucy was the International Business Leaders Forum's Business and Human Rights analyst. Prior to that Lucy was a researcher for EIRIS, having previously interned for arms control think-tank BASIC and Senator John Kerry. From London, Lucy holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics, and also studied at the University of Kent, UK and Georgetown University, Washington D.C.