Our team.

Anna Triponel is an internationally renowned business, human rights and climate expert and founder of Human Level. Over the past decade, she has travelled around the globe to advise hundreds of companies – as well as their investors and lawyers – on what it means to take a people-centred approach to business. Anna advises companies on human rights strategies, weaving human rights into climate strategies and just transition, and ways to adapt business models to be future fit. She is an Advisor to a number of Board members, VPs and General Counsels, and is a regular keynote speaker and featured commentator in the media. Anna acts as a Mediator for OECD National Contact Point instances, has been appointed International Human Rights Expert for a range of operational-level grievance mechanisms and sits on a number of advisory committees. She has lived and/or worked in the majority of countries on the African continent, running human rights impact assessment and stakeholder empowerment processes.

As a consultant at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, she worked with John Ruggie on the development of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and HumanRights. As Senior Advisor at the leading centre of expertise on the UNGPs Shift, she played an instrumental role in the development of the 2015 UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework. She has been a corporate lawyer in New York at Jones Day, an international human rights lawyer working across Africa and Asia at pro bono Nobel Peace Prize nominee firm PILPG, and a development lawyer in Washington DC at the World Bank. She holds three bars as a lawyer (New York, England & Wales, France – currently non-practising lawyer). Degrees include an LL.M. in International Law (American University Washington College of Law); Masters degree in international business / human rights law (University of Paris X); Business Sustainability Management (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and MBA (Essentials from London School of Economics).  

Kalina Milenova, Advisor, is a business and human rights practitioner. Prior to joining Human Level, Kalina worked as a Senior Consultant for business ethics consultancy GoodCorporation, where she supported companies to implement human rights strategies and conduct human rights due diligence.
She has also worked in the NGO sector on economic empowerment programmes for migrant domestic workers, and previously conducted business ethics research at the University of Hong Kong. Kalina has a B.A. in Sociology from Durham University.

Jannicke Martin, Advisor, is a business and human rights practitioner with experience across both the public and private sectors. She has previously led the human rights strategy at global sporting goods retailer Decathlon, worked in foreign affairs at both national and international levels, including the European Union and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and conducted legal research for the International Criminal Court in the Ongwen case. Her previous research explored strategies for strengthening modern slavery reporting within the higher education sector.

At Human Level, she supports companies in embedding human rights into business strategy and operations, while advancing emerging areas of practice, including just transition and the responsible use of AI. She holds a BSc in Political Science from Leiden University and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Malin Helgesen, Advisory Partner, has significant expertise in the business and human rights and ESG fields. Malin is specialised in advising clients on international standards and how the expanding business and human rights regulation interfaces with other sustainability areas. She has advised a wide range of business organisations at a range of levels (from corporate boards, to local work sites) on a range of business and human rights matters, including from policy to practice; from internal risk management to external communication and handling of criticism and formal allegations of human rights abuse; from culture building to assurance processes.  

Prior positions held by Malin include business and human rights specialist counsel at the Swedish law firm Mannheimer Swartling; corporate legal human rights counsel in Equinor ASA; attorney at the Swedish law firm Vinge; attorney at the Norwegian law firm Wiersholm, and senior human rights advisor at the Council of Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global. Malin is a regular panel speaker and lectures in business and human rights at universities in Sweden and Norway. She is a member of the ICC International Commission on Corporate Responsibility &Anti-corruption and the ICC International Informal Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Malin holds an LL.M. in international law from London School of Economics, where she received the Blackstone Chambers’ award for Best Dissertation in International Law for her dissertation on companies’ legal responsibility under international humanitarian law. She also holds an LL.M. from Lund University, Sweden.