Irit Tamir

Senior Director, Corporate Accountability and Worker Justice and Senior Legal Advisor

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Irit Tamir is the Senior Director of Oxfam America's Corporate Accountability and Worker Justice Department and serves as Oxfam America’s Senior Legal Advisor. In her role, she is focused on working with companies to ensure that their business practices result in positive social and environmental impacts for vulnerable communities throughout the world. She leads a team of advisors that engage the private sector on tax, business and human rights, free prior and informed consent, supply chain and labor relations, climate change and gender and racial equity. She oversees private sector engagement from campaigns and advocacy to collaborations and programs focused on corporate behavior along with work focused on investors and shareholder advocacy. In addition, her team engages policymakers on public policy that ensures corporations are held accountable and that limits corporate power.

Prior to working at Oxfam, Ms. Tamir was the Director of Government Relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, where she successfully lobbied for an extensive federal and state legislative agenda. She co-led the effort to pass the Sudan Divestment Bill in Massachusetts, which required the state pension funds to divest from companies doing business with the Government of Sudan in an effort to halt its human rights violations in Darfur. Ms. Tamir is an attorney with a masters in international law and has taught Business and Human Rights as an adjunct at Boston College Law School. She served on the Board of the Fair Labor Association and co-chaired the Working Group on Business and Human Rights for the New York City Bar Association. She currently sits on the Advisory Committees of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights and Living Wage for US. A devoted human rights activist, she has spoken publicly about inequality, human rights, climate resilience, and the food system. Ms. Tamir has had years of experience in government relations and is a former prosecutor who supervised civil rights prosecutions and hate crimes.