Dr. Sorcha MacLeod

Dr Sorcha MacLeod is an expert on business, human rights and security, particularly private military and security companies, and has published widely on this topic. She is WEOG member of the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination. Formerly a member of the Law School at the University of Sheffield, she is currently based in Berlin where she is a Visiting Professor at Free University Berlin and at the Hertie School of Governance. From October 2019 she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen.

She is an invited expert to the UN Inter-governmental Working Group on private military and security companies and participated in the drafting of the Montreux Document on private military and security companies and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. She has Observer Status at the International Code of Conduct Association. She has advised governments, industry and civil society organisations on business, human rights and security issues.