Jerome Bellion-Jourdan is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Negotiation. For more than a decade, he played a leading role on Business and Human Rights, as a diplomat for the European Union and in other responsibilities, including as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Organisation of Employers.
Currently, with the “Global Negotiation Support” initiative providing advice to Chairs/co-Chairs of negotiation processes, he remains involved in the UN Intergovernmental Working Group mandated to elaborate a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.
He has published several articles including a tribute to Prof. John Ruggie
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/in-memory-of-john-g-ruggie-tribute-by-jerome-bellion-jourdan/ and, most recently, a piece on the "treaty process":
https://genevasolutions.news/human-rights/ten-years-on-talks-for-a-business-and-human-rights-treaty-get-new-impetusHe was also mandated to design/lead trainings and negotiation simulations for UNITAR, the Organisation International de la Francophonie and the Geneva Graduate Institute e.g. UNITAR’s first workshop on “Business and Human Rights: Key to Achieving the SDGs”.
As an EU diplomat, he also participated in several multistakeholder initiatives: he was a member of the Steering Committee of the Mega Sporting Events Platform and of the group of Friends of the co-Chairs (Switzerland, ICRC) of the Montreux Document Forum on the governance of private military/security companies.
Prior to Geneva, Jerome Bellion-Jourdan was posted for various institutions in London, Cairo and Jerusalem. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris.
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