Luis Felipe Yanes

Luis is the Scottish Human Rights Commission’s Legal Policy Officer, who leads the Commission’s work on economic, social and cultural rights and business and human rights. He is an expert in economic, social and cultural rights, having worked for 15 years in academia and practice in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Luis is also a core member of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project, where he researches on international investment law and its impacts to the enjoyment of human rights.

He has been a Human Rights Specialist at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; a Research Fellow at the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights; a Lecturer at the University of Essex, the University of Pretoria and the Metropolitan University of Venezuela; a Legal Officer at the Program of Action in Education in Human Rights; a Program Officer at the Jesuit Refugee Service; and a consultant for several international organisations and civil society, including the Organisation of American States, the United Nations and the Norwegian Union on Municipal and General Employees.