Dr Claire Bright is a Senior Legal Advisor at Global Rights Compliance (GRC). She is also an Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law and the Founder & Director of the NOVA Centre on Business, Human Rights and the Environment (NOVA BHRE) at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon. She holds a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute, an LL.M in Private International and Commercial Law from La Sorbonne, and a Dual Bachelor in French and English Law from UPEC and the University of Sheffield.
Her work focuses on business, human rights, and sustainability, with an emphasis on shaping policy and regulatory developments at national and EU levels, as well as supporting the implementation of human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) in practice to foster responsible business conduct. She combines academic research with hands-on advisory and field experience, having contributed to shaping legislation at both national and European levels and to National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights in various countries.
In parallel, she has designed and delivered short courses, coaching sessions and executive trainings in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Mozambique, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Colombia, and has facilitated multi-stakeholder events as well as policy dialogues.
Dr Bright has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in five languages. She has acted as consultant to governments, international organisations (UNDP, ILO, Council of Europe (CoE)), European institutions (European Commission, European Parliament and the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)), civil society organisations, and businesses. Notably, she co-authored the European Commission’s study on due diligence requirements in supply chains