Francesca Manta
Associate Director, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
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Francesca Manta is Associate Director at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). She has more than 10 years of experience in human rights, sustainability management, and responsible supply chains to her work with companies in the infrastructure, financial services, and consumer products sectors. Prior to joining BSR, Francesca worked at a global Danish retailer, where she was responsible for human rights programs at the corporate and local level. Francesca has also previously worked with the Danish Institute for Human Rights as well as Vestas and Maersk, where she was part of their sustainability teams and helped to establish social compliance systems and managed broader sustainability initiatives such as materiality, reporting, and ethics. She has done field work in East Africa, India, Myanmar, China, and South Korea. Francesca holds a M.S. in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School and a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from LUISS University Rome. She speaks Danish, English, and Italian.