Isabel Ebert

Business & Human Rights

Digital Governance & Responsible Business Conduct

Global Governance & Role of Business Actors

Workplace monitoring & Privacy, Future of Work

International relations, in particular Peace & Conflict Research and Private Sector Governance

Fairness, Accountability & Transparency in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Models

Commodity Trading

• Since 2024: Human Rights Officer UN Human Rights B-Tech
• Since 2022: Member of the OECD AI Group of Experts
• 2022-2024: Harvard Kennedy School Tech and Human Rights Fellow
• 2020-2024: Academic Adviser to UN Human Rights B-Tech
• 2014-2018 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre based in London, UK (Lead on Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 2014 and since 2016 for the Western Europe area).
• First work experiences at the German Mission in South Africa, the Governing Mayor of Berlin,the Goethe Institute New York, and at a consultancy in Development Cooperation and Health. 
   

• since 2023 cooperation with United Nations Human Rights on Development Finance and Digital Rights
• since 2022 Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Carr Center, Tech and Human Rights Fellowship
• 2022: Smart City and Human Rights Research project - The cases of Switzerland and Chile 
• 2020-ongoing: Responsible Business Conduct in the Swiss Commodity Sector, research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
• 2017-2020 PhD research under the supervision of Prof. Florian Wettstein at the Institute for Business Ethics under joint supervision with Prof. Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford). Her research focusses on ethical questions regarding data disclosure by companies to governments.
• October 2019-June 2020: research stay at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Gina Neff (OII).
• SNF NFP 75 Isabel Laura Ebert is a research associate at the research project "Big Brother" in Swiss companies Trust, data and personal privacy of employees. The research project is lead jointly by the Institute for Work and Employment Research and the Institute for Business Ethics, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.