Dunstan leads BSR’s work at the intersection of technology and human rights.
Previously, Dunstan led BSR’s information and communications technology, heavy manufacturing, and human rights teams.
He brings significant experience working on a diverse range of engagements and issues, including human rights due diligence, privacy and freedom of expression, sustainability reporting and strategy, and stakeholder engagement.
Dunstan facilitated the multistakeholder process of developing global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. He also helped create the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, a collaborative initiative of more than 100 ICT companies improving conditions in their supply chains. Dunstan participated in the process of creating the Global Reporting Initiative G3 guidelines, and he is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, reporting, and human rights. He also co-authored the 2010 book Big Business, Big Responsibilities.
Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications' corporate responsibility team.
Dunstan has an M.Prof. in Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.
Insights From Dunstan Allison-Hope
- How the SEC Can Mandate Climate-Related Disclosures and Drive Corporate Action | Jun 8, 2022 | Blog
- A Human Rights Assessment of Meta’s Expansion of End-to-End Encryption | Apr 4, 2022 | Blog
- Applying the UNGPs to Technology: Our Point of View | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog
- Impact-Based Materiality | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog
- The Stars Are Aligning | Oct 8, 2021 | Blog
- Human Rights Are Not Just an “ESG Factor” | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog
- A Human Rights Assessment of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog
- Human Rights Impact Assessment: Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism | Jul 20, 2021 | Reports
- Responsible Product Use in the SaaS Sector | Jul 15, 2021 | Reports
- The Shared Opportunity to Promote: A Second-Decade Priority for the UNGPs | Jun 22, 2021 | Reports
- The Case for SEC-Mandated Climate and ESG Disclosure | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog
- Science: A Human Right for Our Times | Apr 20, 2021 | Blog
- Beyond Former User @realdonaldtrump: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Governance | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog
- One Year On: A Human Rights Review of the Oversight Board | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions. | Dec 15, 2020 | Reports
- COVID-19 and Beyond: Technology, Responsible Decision Making, and Public Health Emergencies | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog
- Is Your Company Ready for the Future of Reporting? | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog
- A New Social Contract That Enables Social Justice | Jul 30, 2020 | Blog
- Why Worker Data Protection Should Be Central to a 21st-Century Social Contract | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog
- The Business Role in Creating a 21st-Century Social Contract | Jun 24, 2020 | Reports
- A Post-COVID-19 Agenda for Sustainability Reporting | May 19, 2020 | Blog
- A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook In Cambodia | May 12, 2020 | Blog
- Sustainability Reporting and Early Lessons from COVID-19 | May 4, 2020 | Blog
- The Urgency of a New Social Contract | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
- COVID-19: A Rapid Human Rights Due Diligence Tool for Companies | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
- Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Innovative Approaches for the Technology Sector | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog
- Human Rights Assessments in the Decisive Decade: Applying UNGPs in the Technology Sector | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog
- Five Insights on the Future of Reporting from Uber’s Safety Report | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog
- A Human Rights Review of the Facebook Oversight Board | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog
- Google’s Human Rights by Design | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog
- Q&A with BSR Senior Advisor Susan Morgan | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog
- Responsible Use of Technology | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog
- Human Rights Insights: Trends from the Human Rights Working Group’s Spring Meeting | Jul 8, 2019 | Reports
- Is Stakeholder Engagement the Key to Successful Community Standards? | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog
- Time’s Up: Women Should Be Front and Center of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: We Need to Talk about the Use Phase | May 15, 2019 | Blog
- Supply Chain Sustainability in a Rapidly Changing World | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog
- A New Transparency Challenge for Business and Human Rights | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
- Five Reporting Trends for 2019: Insights on the Future of Reporting | Feb 19, 2019 | Reports
- Are You Prepared for the Future of Business and Human Rights? | Dec 11, 2018 | Blog
- Our Human Rights Impact Assessment of Facebook in Myanmar | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog
- Four Reflections on the Human Rights Implications of Artificial Intelligence | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog
- A Human Rights-Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog
- Artificial Intelligence: A Rights-Based Blueprint for Business | Aug 28, 2018 | Reports
- Announcing a New Collaboration Using Tech to Combat Human Trafficking | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog
- A Practitioner’s View of Sustainability Reporting: Challenges and Solutions | Feb 5, 2018 | Reports
- Three Hot Debates in Sustainability Reporting Today | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog
- Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Responsibility | Feb 1, 2018 | News
- Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World | Jan 29, 2018 | Reports
- The Right to Privacy, 70 Years On | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog
- Seven Things Every Company Should Know about Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Business | Jan 11, 2018 | Blog
- Children’s Rights Online: A Conversation with UNICEF | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog
- Surveying the Human Rights Landscape: Collaboration on the Rise | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
- Remedy against the Machine | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog
- The Sustainability Reporting Landscape: Q&A with GRI and SASB | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog
- The Sustainability Form 10-K: A Proposal | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog
- Introducing the Sustainable Business Playbook | Sep 26, 2017 | Blog
- Insights from Telia Company’s Human Rights Impact Assessments | Jul 12, 2017 | Blog
- Human Rights by Design | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog
- Calling All Sustainability Reporting Practitioners | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
- Corporate Transparency under a Trump Administration | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog
- Triangles, Numbers, and Narratives: A Proposal for the Future of Sustainability Reporting | Nov 2, 2016 | Reports
- Rethinking Stakeholder Engagement for the New Millennium: Part I | Nov 1, 2016 | News
- Big Data and Human Rights: 5 Frequently Asked Questions | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
- Boldly Moving Beyond the Hype of Hyper-Transparency | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog
- The Future of Reporting Is Triangular | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with the IIRC | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with GRI | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
- The Future of Reporting Standards: A Conversation with SASB | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog
- The Fallacy of the Apple and Orange Defense for Sustainability Reporting | May 16, 2016 | Blog
- Translating the Climate Agreement into Business Strategies: BSR’s Four-Part Methodology | May 3, 2016 | Blog
- Inclusive by Design: BSR’s Project on Technology and Access in China | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
- 3-D Printing: Sustainability Opportunities and Challenges | Oct 30, 2015 | Reports
- Can Global Companies Increase Renewables Use in Chinese Supply Chains? | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
- How to Fix Reporting | Jul 24, 2015 | Blog
- Is Reporting Bloated, Burdensome, and Broken? | Jul 17, 2015 | Blog
- The Internet of Green Electronics | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog
- Sustainability Reporting: A Love-Hate Story | Apr 24, 2015 | Blog
- Don’t Forget the Ethics | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog
- Sustainability in the ICT Industry: Our 2015 Plan | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog
- Why We Are Measuring Our Impact at BSR | Nov 21, 2014 | Blog
- How Tech Companies Can Engage with (Billions of) Users on Human Rights | Sep 17, 2014 | Blog
- Does Transparency Matter? | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog
- What Vodafone’s New Law-Enforcement Report Says About the Future of Sustainability Reporting | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog
- Law Enforcement Reporting Shouldn’t Stop with the Telcos | Mar 10, 2014 | Blog
- Integrated Report, or Integrated Reporting? | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog
- Navigating the Materiality Muddle | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog
- Take That, Cynics! As Companies Detail PRISM Involvement, Transparency Proves Its Value | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog
- In the Era of PRISM, ‘Knowing and Showing’ on Human Rights | Jun 13, 2013 | Blog
- Planning for GRIIIRCSASB: How to Untangle Sustainability Reporting Strategy | Apr 25, 2013 | Blog
- What the New Telecommunications Human Rights Principles Mean | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog
- Microsoft Reports: What ïthe LawÍ Is Asking of Internet Companies | Mar 22, 2013 | Blog
- My Wish List for the Information and Communications Technology Industry | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog
- Zero Dark Thirty: The Human Rights Responsibilities of Entertainment Companies | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog
- An ICT Company’s To-Do List on Human Rights | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog
- Applying the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry: Version 2.0 | Sep 6, 2012 | Reports
- The GRI Misses Some of the Most Important Human Rights Issues of Our Age | Aug 1, 2012 | Blog
- Taking Ethics to the Cloud | Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
- Time to Open the Myanmar Office? | Apr 5, 2012 | Blog
- Top Five Reporting Mistakes (An Unofficial List) | Mar 15, 2012 | Blog
- Sustainability Reports: Worth the Effort? | Feb 15, 2012 | Blog
- Transparency in China: A New Generation of Sustainability Reports | Jan 24, 2012 | Blog
- Integrated Reporting: A New Vision for Disclosure | Oct 4, 2011 | Blog
- Four Improvements for the Global Reporting Initiative’s ‘G4’ Guidelines | Sep 20, 2011 | Blog
- VIDEO: How the Tech Sector Should Address Human Rights | Aug 16, 2011 | Blog
- Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry | Version 1.0 | Aug 16, 2011 | Reports
- Four Priorities for the Tech Sector in Applying the New UN Guiding Principles | Jul 27, 2011 | Blog
- The Danger of ‘Web 2.0’ Enthusiasm for Sustainability Reporting | Jul 25, 2011 | Blog
- A Letter from San Francisco | May 17, 2011 | Blog
- Technology, Collaboration, and Human Rights: A Slightly Unfair (but Somewhat Useful) Comparison | Apr 14, 2011 | Blog
- Protecting Human Rights in the Digital Age | Feb 15, 2011 | Reports
- Egypt and the Realization of Human Rights in the Digital Age | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog
- Egypt and the Complicated Ethics of the Telecommunications Industry | Feb 1, 2011 | Blog
- Protecting Human Rights in a Networked Age | Aug 6, 2010 | Blog
- The Big Responsibilities of Big Business | Jul 20, 2010 | Blog
- What Does the Global Network Initiative Tell Us About the Value of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives? | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog
- Google and China: When Should Business Leave on Human Rights Grounds? | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog
- Comparing Like With Like: Privacy, Security, and Content Issues | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
- Should You Stay or Should You Go? What’s the ‘Right’ Decision on Entering or Leaving a Market? | Feb 23, 2010 | Blog
- BSR Debates: Should Sustainability Reporting Be Mandatory? | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
- Mandatory Reporting: BSR Debates the Pros & Cons of Requiring Companies to Report on Sustainability | Feb 2, 2010 | Blog
- Integrating Financial and Corporate Responsibility Reporting | Nov 10, 2009 | Blog
- ICT as a Sustainability Solution: Moving from Theory to Practice | Sep 1, 2009 | Blog