Who we are

As Head of Secretariat, Mora is responsible for the management of the team, and provides strategic advice and support to the Steering Committee and the Working Groups. She performs a liaison and support function with all Members of the VPI (Government, Corporate and NGO pillars).

Mora is an international human rights lawyer and a leading expert in responsible business practices. She currently serves as a Board member to the Canadian Commercial Corporation, a Crown Corporation. As a former Government of Canada official, she served as Chair, OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains, participated in the VPI Steering Committee, and led Canada’s efforts on Business and Human Rights.

Patricia Jacopucci is the Deputy Head of the Voluntary Principles Initiative Secretariat. She supports the Head of Secretariat on strategic planning, and is responsible for leading the development and execution of outreach activities and events, and for overseeing implementation of communications activities. She also supports VPI In-Country Working Groups and other projects relating to VPs implementation.

Patricia possesses a strong track record on strategic planning, as well as longstanding experience in multi-stakeholder engagement, including working with governments, private sector, non-profit organizations, and communities affected by oil and gas projects. She has deep experience leading internal and external communications, public relations, and event management in the oil and gas sector, as well as communicating effectively with all categories of stakeholders.

Tristy supports the Secretariat and the members of the Voluntary Principles Initiative with finance & administrative matters and events activities.

Tristy is a former Professional Engineer. She has worked in the fields of mining and oil & gas, specifically in research. Tristy holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering & Management – Chemical from McMaster University.

Bann Tabbara is the Grants Manager of the Voluntary Principles Initiative Secretariat. She is responsible for managing the grants process with the VPI In-Country Working Groups. She also works on strengthening on-the-ground practices, coordinates technical and policy support to working groups and supports information sharing between the groups.

Bann has been working for more than 10 years with international NGOs on projects funded by different international donors like World Bank, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM), European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Global Affairs Canada, Sida Secure, and UN agencies. She has extensive experience in project implementation, project management, monitoring, evaluation and learning.

As the Senior Communications Officer, Kiki is responsible for managing the VPI’s internal and external communications functions, including content development, social media management, and event coordination. She also supports the Deputy Head of Secretariat in strategic communications planning and the overall execution to advance the Initiative’s outreach and communications goals.  

Before joining the Secretariat, Kiki spent the last decade working in the public sector and not-for-profit organizations in Singapore, specializing in corporate communications, media relations, and event management.  

As Senior Advisor to the Secretariat, Kaveh periodically assists the Secretariat on a variety of issues including governance, membership admissions, remedies and grievance mechanisms.

Kaveh is a lawyer and a former Senior Policy Advisor to the Human Rights Policy division of Global Affairs Canada. In that role, he served as a member of the Government of Canada delegation to the VPs. He also has corporate experience in human rights and corporate social responsibility initiatives in the mining sector. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

Jonathan Drimmer is a Strategic Advisor to the Secretariat. He is a lawyer and partner in a leading international law firm. He is a recognized international expert in anti-corruption compliance, as well as business and human rights. He most recently was the Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at a leading gold mining company where he helped oversee the company’s anti-corruption and human rights programs, global investigations, and major disputes. Before, he was Deputy Director in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. For the past 19 years, he has taught courses related to international humanitarian law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Jonathan is an advisor to the ISR Committee of the Mining Association of Canada. He serves on the boards of directors of the UN Global Compact’s Canada Network, Transparency International Canada, Fund for Peace, and the TRACE Foundation. He is on the steering committee of the UN Global Compact Business for Peace Initiative, on the expert advisory board for the US OECD National Contact Point, a subject matter expert at Canada’s Centre for Excellence on Anti-Corruption, and on the faculty of Competent Boards. Among his awards and recognitions are the Charles Fahy Award for teaching at Georgetown, and the first U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Award for Human Rights Law Enforcement.

Professor Anita Ramasastry is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law and the Director of the Sustainable International Development Graduate Program at the University of Washington School of Law. She is an expert in the fields of anti-corruption, commercial law, sustainable development, and business and human rights. She is one of the leading academics and a pioneer in the field of business and human rights and responsible business conduct.

Ramasastry is currently a commissioner on the Global Commission on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, chaired by the former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Baroness Theresa May. Ramasastry is one of five legal experts appointed by the Human Rights Council to advise the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group drafting a business and human rights treaty. She also serves as a legal advisor to a second international negotiation concerning an international regulatory framework for private and military security companies, also at the UN Human Rights Council.  She is a member of the academic advisory group to the International Code of Conduct Association.

From 2016–2022, she served as a member of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, having been appointed as a rapporteur by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2016. She previously served as its chair in 2020. From 2020–2024, Ramasastry was appointed as the Special Representative on Combatting Corruption at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Ramasastry is a founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, published by Cambridge University Press. She is a board member and founder of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association and launched its annual research scholars forum.