Ursula Wynhoven
Ursula Wynhoven is the Head, Policy & Legal and Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact Office. Among other things, she is responsible for the Global Compact's work programmes on the human rights and labour principles, government and donor relations, and for the Global Compact's integrity measures. She began working with the Global Compact Office in 2002 as a consultant to the Global Compact Learning Forum.
A lawyer by background, Ursula worked in private practice and government human rights agencies in both Australia and the United States before joining the United Nations. Ursula has also worked for the Secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the OECD's corporate responsibility initiative. Among other academic qualifications, Ursula has two Masters of Law degrees, from Columbia Law School and Monash University, in which she focused on human rights. She is also admitted to practice law in jurisdictions in Australia, the United States, and England and Wales. She is also an adjunct lecturer in business and human rights at the University of Reykjavik, Iceland.