Scott Greathead
Chairman and CEO

Scott Greathead is a corporate lawyer and well-known human rights advocate who founded WMI to provide information, strategic advice, and risk prevention strategies to corporations. Greathead is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights First, previously the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. Greathead has visited more than a dozen countries on human rights fact-finding missions for Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, the International League for Human Rights, and other organizations. His writings on human rights and corporate social responsibility have appeared in publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is an officer or director of several public interest organizations, including the American Conservation Association, the New York League of Conservation Voters, and Human Rights in China, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the advisory committee of the Business and Economic Relations Group of Amnesty International USA. From 1984 to 1990, Greathead served as the First Assistant Attorney General of New York State. He is a graduate of Princeton University and University of Virginia School of Law.

Juliette Bennett
Managing Director

Juliette Bennett has a background in public affairs. She has spoken at conferences on the role of business in conflict prevention, including Transparency International's annual conference in Prague, The University of Michigan's Business School, and in the US Congress. She served as a consultant to the United Nations Office of the Global Compact, working with leading extraction companies, NGOs, and international financial institutions to prepare two background papers for the business in zones of conflict dialogue. In April 2000, in partnership with the NYU School of Law, Bennett organized a groundbreaking conference on "Business and International Security," that brought major corporations, NGOs, and academics together to discuss conflict prevention. Her most recent article, "Corporations, Social Responsibility and Conflict," appeared in The Columbia Journal of International Affairs. Juliette worked at the Council on Economic Priorities, a US-based corporate social responsibility research organization, and prior to that was a teacher in Japan on the JET program and a political advisor for the Japanese Consulate General in New York. Bennett has a BA in Political Science from Barnard College.

Wendy Rhein
Vice President

Wendy L. Rhein, is a life long nonprofit and community relations advocate who brings a for-profit business mentality to nonprofit operations. Ms. Rhein started her career in homeless and AIDS services, and has continued to work in the fields of international development, HIV/AIDS, women's health, corporate social responsibility, child labor and pubic/private partnerships. Ms. Rhein has worked with pharmaceutical companies and other industries to develop cause related marketing initiatives, philanthropy programs and non-profit partnerships. She is also the editor of eMONITORS, World Monitors business and human rights newsletter. A University of Michigan graduate, Ms. Rhein holds a Master's degree in International Affairs with a focus on human rights and business from Columbia University. She is also an author and editor on the topics of human rights and corporate social responsibility.

Adam Smith Albion
Director, Critical Areas Research
Editor, eMONITORS Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

Adam Smith Albion is a leading expert on Central Asia. He serves as a writer and analyst on Central Asia for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He also works as Deputy Director of the Leadership Program and Senior Research Associate, focusing on Central Eurasia and Turkey, at the EastWest Institute (EWI). He has written extensively on conditions in Turkey, NIS/Central Asia and Xinjiang as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs based in Trabzon, Turkey and Tashkent, Uzbekistan for seven years. His published work covers the range of post-Soviet developments in the Turkic-Iranic world, including contemporary society and culture, politics, economics, and ethnography. Fluent in Turkish, Uzbek, Russian, and Romanian, he was educated at Harvard and Oxford Universities.

Andrew Whitford
Director, West Coast

Andrew Whitford has over twenty years of experience working with private and public companies as well as government and not for profit organizations. He has worked extensively throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, Great Britain, and the United States. Following a career in healthcare management in both the public and private sectors he was appointed Executive Officer of AWA Limited (Australia's largest engineering and communications company). Reporting directly to the Chairman and CEO he was responsible for the oversight of all operating divisions reporting, major corporate projects, and the ongoing review of corporate strategy and business development. In 1990 Andrew was recruited to work for Serco Plc, one of the largest facilities management companies in the world. In Great Britain he was directly involved in a variety of projects for clients including ESA (European Space Agency), the Ministry of Defence, British Aerospace, and Marks & Spencers. Andrew was appointed General Manager of Serco Asia Pacific in 1991 and was responsible for developing and managing long term contracts/relationships with Shell Oil Refineries, Westpac Bank, Caltex (Kurnell) Oil Refinery, Department of Defence, and Grain Corp as well as many others. For the past ten years Andrew has been in the United States providing strategic counsel to CEOs on brand strategy and communications. He has a Bachelors Degree in Health Administration, a Post Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management, and is a graduate of the IMC (Industrial Mobilization Course) from the Australian Defence Force.

Jordana D. Friedman
Director, U.K.

Jordana Friedman is responsible for developing and implementing corporate social responsibility strategies for WMI clients. Friedman was previously with Burson-Marseller's Corporate Practice in New York after spending over a decade in the non-governmental sector where she pursued research and advocacy in the areas of corporate social responsibility, human rights, sustainable development, and conflict prevention. She served as Director of the London office of the Council on Economic Priorities.

Responsibilities at CEP included advising companies on social and political risk management issues, organizing and participating in stakeholder dialogues and consultations, and working closely with a network of global corporate social responsibility organizations. Friedman's previous positions include Director of the London office of the US-based human rights organization, Cultural Survival; consultant to the international human rights organization, Minority Rights Group; research fellow, Oxford University; and Director of Publicity at the French-American Cultural Services and Educational Exchange of the French Embassy in New York.

Friedman has contributed writing and research to numerous books on corporate social responsibility and conflict prevention including The Business of Peace - The private sector as a partner in conflict prevention and resolution and Visions of Ethical Business. She has also appeared as a speaker at conferences at the United Nations, United States Congress, Council on Foreign Relations, State of the World Forum, Royal Institute of International Affairs, and New York University Centre for Law and Business. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds an undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Harvard University. She also earned a Masters degree in International Relations and International Economics from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University. Friedman is fluent in French and Italian.

Tian X. Hou
Director, China Projects

Tian Hou provides strategic consultation and advice to WMI clients with business or projects in China. She was born and grew up in Beijing, China, and immigrated to the United States more than ten years ago. She holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from Harvard, an MBA from Beijing University of Economics, and an undergraduate degree from Beijing University. Since receiving her degree from Harvard, she has worked as a management strategy consultant in the IT industry, an analyst in the financial services industry, and an editor of financial reports. She has followed business and labor practices in China for nearly ten years, and frequently advises US companies doing business in China.

Gregory L. Smith
Senior Consultant
Editor-eMontiors Legal

Gregory L. Smith is an attorney with extensive experience in the worlds of business and international human rights. While practicing commercial law with major firms in New York and San Francisco, Smith represented foreign human rights activists seeking political asylum in the United States. Recently, Smith studied international affairs at Columbia University, where he concentrated on Human Rights and Latin American Studies. He has worked on individual projects and campaigns with numerous human rights organizations, including the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, now Human Rights First in New York, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims in Denmark. Mr. Smith also recently served as a consultant with the United Nations, Security Council Division. He is fluent or proficient in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish.

Jacqueline Warren
Environmental Consultant

Jacqueline Warren has over thirty years' experience on a broad range of national and international environmental issues, and is well-known as an environmental advocate. She served as a senior attorney for two prominent American NGOs, Environmental Defense for eight years and the Natural Resources Defense Council for eleven years. In subsequent private law practice, she was counsel to Berle, Kass & Case, an environmental law firm. She has participated in judicial, administrative, and legislative proceedings involving hazardous waste management and cleanup, toxic substances control, air and water pollution, drinking water quality, asbestos abatement, safe use of pesticides, pollution prevention, energy conservation, and chemical accident prevention. She has served on advisory committees to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the New York State Departments of Health and of Environmental Conservation.

Warren has also been an advisor to the Wharton School's Risk and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, taught regulation of toxic substances at the Columbia University School of Public Health and the N.Y.U. Law School Summer Institute on Environmental Law, and been a frequent panelist at environmental law conferences. In private law practice, she represented companies and municipalities on due diligence and regulatory compliance issues, and worked with and represented NGOs and community groups in litigation and in negotiated rulemakings and settlements. Warren is a graduate of Smith College and the George Washington University Law School.

Mil Niepold
Senior Advisor, Workplace and Labor Issues

Mil Niepold is a labor and human rights consultant to corporations, NGOs and academia. Current clients include, among others, the Université de Paris and World Monitors, Inc. Mil was most recently the Director of Policy for Verité for over six years. In this capacity she was responsible for drafting the normative framework underpinning Verité's social auditing and research work. Mil was also instrumental in building relationships both with the public sector (US Department of Labor, CalPERS and NYCERS) and the private sector (Levi Strauss, Reebok, and New Balance among others).

Prior to joining Verité, her corporate social responsibility work spanned both the private sector with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express and the public sector with UNICEF, the European Union, the French Ministry of Labor, Social Accountability International and various NGOs and non-profits.

Mil holds a degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University and L'Institut des Sciences Politiques in Aix-en-Provence. In 1998 she completed an intensive International Human Rights Law program at Oxford University, United Kingdom. Ms. Niepold has served on Amnesty International USA's Business and Economic Relations Group since 1998.

Past speaking engagements have included the Ethical Trading Initiative (London), Princeton University, French Ministry of Labor, New York University, UN Global Compact, Columbia University, University of California - Berkeley, among others.