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Joanne Bauer
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
jjb71@columbia.edu
Biography:
Joanne Bauer teaches Corporate Social Responsibility: A Human Rights Approach. She teaches a similar course in the School of Continuing Education, and, with Anthony Ewing (Columbia Law School) co-leads an international initiative on Teaching Business and Human Rights based at Columbia.
Bauer is Senior Researcher at Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. She is in charge of the Resource Center’s Asia work, and also specializes in business and HIV/AIDS, women's human rights, and business and human rights in Burma.
From 1994 to 2005 Bauer was Director of Studies at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (New York), where she founded the Carnegie Council’s research programs on human rights and environmental values. She also directed the fellows program, providing off-site fellowships for early career scholars and mid-career professionals. She was the Council’s Director of Japan Programs from 1991 to 1994 and before that held positions in banking, government affairs, and media.
Bauer was founder and editor of Human Rights Dialogue, a magazine published by the Carnegie Council from 1993-2005, featuring contributions from activists, scholars, and policy makers from around the globe working to put human rights theory into practice. She is editor of Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood and Contested Environments (ME Sharpe, 2006), which provides original case material on values and environmental politics in China, Japan, India, and the United States, based on a five-year, multi-team research project. She co-edited The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 1999), also based on a collaborative project. Bauer served as a contributing editor to the journal Ethics & International Affairs, editor of Dialogue OnLine, the on-line companion to Human Rights Dialogue, and has authored a number of articles, book chapters, and reports.
As an independent consultant, Bauer conducts research and program evaluation for foundations and non-profits, specializing in international and domestic human rights programs. She speaks frequently on topics in business and human rights and is a blogger for CSRWire. In 2012 was appointed a Research Affiliate of the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut.