Lucy Amis

Current Work

As the Senior Advisor - Knowledge & Capacity, Lucy provides deep technical expertise across multiple CSHR workstreams. She is responsible for incubating new ideas, scoping and leading clusters of activities in direct coordination with the Deputy CEO and Workstream / Programme Owners, and delivering high quality outputs in the form of tools, trainings, capacity building, reports, blogs etc., while offering mentorship and additional resource across the team. 

Previous Experience

Since 2012, Lucy has focused on Sport and Human rights and was one of the originators of the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)'s work that led to the Centre’s launch. At IHRB she authored Striving for Excellence: Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights and helped build the coalition that became the MSE Platform on Human Rights, overseeing its 12 white-papers and playing a central role behind the first Sporting Chance Forum and Sporting Chance Principles. Prior to joining the Centre, Lucy spent four years at Unicef UK, advising Commonwealth Sport on human and child rights-related governance and worked alongside the organisers of the Bahamas 2017 Youth, and Gold Coast 2018, Commonwealth Games on their human rights approaches.

Lucy was an analyst at the International Business Leaders Forum (2000-2009), where she was co-author of Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide and Business and Human Rights: A Geography of Corporate Risk. Lucy has a Masters degree from the London School of Economics, and Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kent, in Political Science and junior year abroad Dean’s List honours from Georgetown University, where she interned for Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee Broadcast Service and studied under Madeleine Albright.