Brown Bag Lunch Series

Speaker: Sarah Dolton-Zborowski, Director of Human Rights at PVH Corp.

During recent field trips to a remote gold mining community in Papua New Guinea and apparel factories in Bangladesh, Sarah Dolton-Zborowski, Director of Human Rights at PVH Corp., was struck by the ways that corporate thinking on human rights is changing. Not only are companies starting to realize that risk mitigation is not enough, but they are embracing initiatives such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and working toward driving positive impacts for those touched by their global operations. Join Sarah for a discussion of the changing corporate sustainability landscape as well as insights as to how students can pursue a career in this area.

Sarah Dolton-Zborowski has spent the last 13 years working across the private sector, international organizations and in the field as a lawyer, consultant, and human rights advocate and is currently the Director of Human Rights at PVH, one of the world’s largest apparel companies. Before joining PVH Sarah worked in a variety of different roles including as a sustainability consultant with BSR, a Business and Human Rights Legal Advisor with the United Nations Global Compact Office, a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a lawyer in some of the world’s top law firms, Mallesons Stephens Jaques and Jones Day. Sarah’s areas of expertise include international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and corporation sustainability more broadly. She has served as a Board Member for the Australian Disability Discrimination Legal Center and as a Legal Officer for the United Nations, where she focused on the signing and ratification of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A native of Australia, Sarah holds a B.IT and J.D. from the University of Technology, Sydney, and an LL.M. from Columbia University where she graduated a James Kent Scholar with the Parker School Certificate in International Law. Sarah is admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia and is a member of the New York Bar Association.

Brown Bag Lunch Series