Human Rights Career Series

Vanessa Zimmerman

Legal Adviser to the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Business and Human Rights

Vanessa Zimmerman is a legal adviser to Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the United Nations’ Secretary General on Business and Human Rights (SRSG). She advises on issues of international and national law related to his SRSG mandate and to date has focused on the role of states in regulating and adjudicating corporate activities with respect to human rights.  Vanessa has a B.A. and LL.B. (Hons.) from Monash University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She has worked as a solicitor in the competition law group at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and as a corporate lawyer at Telstra. Vanessa has also worked with the Australian Delegation to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Date:              Thursday, 10 April 2008

Time:              1 – 2 pm

Venue:           Lecture theatre SG01, Menzies Building 11, Monash University, Clayton Campus