Beata Faracik is a co-founder and President of the board of PIHRB. A legal expert specialized in Human Rights & Business and RBC/CSR, she has approximately 20 years of professional experience in public, private, and NGO sectors in various countries, including the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland), Criminal Justice System and the NSPCC (UK). Since 2018 Beata has volunteered as coordinator of the interministerial and multistakeholder Working Group on Workers, an advisory body to the Minister of Finance, Funds and Regional Development, helping develop legislative recommendations and practical tools to prevent and persecute forced labour and human trafficking. Beata co-founded the CSR Watch Coalition Poland and CEE Business and Human Rights Association. She’s a member of the BHRight Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching on BHR, and the advisory board of Amnesty International Poland. She holds a Master’s degree in Law and an MA in International relations/European Affairs from A.Mickiewicz University and an LL.M. in Human Rights and Intellectual Property Law (WIPO WA Fellow) from Raoul Wallenberg Institute/Lund University and WIPO Worldwide Academy/. She has contributed in an expert capacity to discussions on BHR at the European level.