Cecely Richard-Carvajal

Cecely is the Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow at the NYU Stern Center for Business Human Rights. She holds an L.L.M. degree in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law, where she specialized in international human rights law. During her LLM, Cecely worked as a Human Rights Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. She also completed an internship in the Rule of Law Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary General at the United Nations. Cecely has extensive research experience in the human rights space, providing research support to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, working as a secondee at the legal action NGO, Reprieve, and completing a distance internship at Advocates for Human Rights. Cecely is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales and, before pursuing her LLM, she worked as an Associate in Clifford Chance's Project, Energy and Infrastructure team in Paris, advising lenders and sponsors on project financings internationally. Cecely speaks Spanish, French, Russian and English and holds an MA from Cambridge University in Modern and Medieval Languages.