Jerome Bellion-Jourdan is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Negotiation. He has been actively engaged on Business and Human Rights for more than a decade, most recently as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE). As a European diplomat, he was involved in the final rounds leading to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.He represented the EU in the UN Intergovernmental working group to elaborate a legally binding instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises in the realm of human rights law; as well as in other processes such as the Steering Committee of the Mega-Sporting Events Platform and the Group of Friends of the co-Chairs (Switzerland/ICRC) of the Montreux Document Forum on Private Military and Security Companies.
Jerome Bellion-Jourdan also delivered courses and training for UNITAR, the Geneva Graduate Institute and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. For the latter, he has led training for the past four years with climate, digital and trade negotiators from Asia, Africa and Latin America.To foster a holistic approach to global negotiations, the OIF mandated him to coauthor a guidebook « Ligne du temps de la négociation » jointly with former UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Isabelle Durant.
He is a regular speaker in the UN and other fora. Most recently, he was invited as a moderator on a panel on mandatory human rights due diligence at the Swiss Forum on Business and Human Rights. He contributed several publications on Business and Human Rights, among others, a tribute to Prof. John Ruggie
thttps://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/in-memory-of-john-g-ruggie-tribute-by-jerome-bellion-jourdan/He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and co-authored a book The Charitable Crescent. Politics of Aid in the Mulsim World (London: IB Tauris, 2009) with Jonathan Benthall.
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