Laure-Anne has 19 years of experience in business and human rights, and in development finance risk management, working across sectors including extractives, critical minerals, financial intermediaries, infrastructure and agribusiness. She is the founder of Roots Advisory, an independent practice serving development finance institutions, businesses, foundations and civil society organisations, focusing on institutional learning, due diligence, policy research and review, and remedy. She also supports project-affected communities and their representatives in submitting complaints to grievance and accountability mechanisms. Her recent critical minerals work has focused on responsible financing of critical minerals production.
Before founding Roots Advisory, Laure-Anne spent twelve years with the UN Human Rights Office working on business and human rights, land tenure, and involuntary resettlement, at policy level and in the field – including postings in Cambodia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also spent over four years as a Senior Environmental and Social Compliance Consultant with the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), the then independent accountability mechanism for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), where she led compliance investigations and monitoring of the institutions’ environmental and social performance across various investments.
She holds an MPhil with Distinction in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva. She is fluent in French and English, with working proficiency in German.
