Mil Niepold

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Senior Policy Advisor

Mil Niepold specializes in convening multi-stakeholder dialogue around complex social issues. She is currently spearheading Verité’s new  initiatives in raw materials. Past work in this position included  a focus on programs to implement the Harkin – Engel Protocol on child labor in cocoa production. Mil previously served as Verité’s Director of Policy for over ten years. In that capacity, she drafted the framework of Verité’s social auditing and research work and built relationships with corporations, NGOs, non-profits and academia.  Prior to joining Verité, her corporate social responsibility work spanned both private sector with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express and the public sector with organizations such as UNICEF,  the European Union, the French Ministry of Labor, Social Accountability International, and Oxfam International. From 1998 – 2004 she served on Amnesty International’s Business and Economic Relations Group. Mil holds degrees in International Affairs and European Studies from George Washington University and L’Institut des Sciences Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France as well as a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, UK. She is fluent in English and French and is the author of two children’s books.