Julia joined the Brussels team of the Responsible Companies section in 2021 and leads the work on corporate due diligence and directors’ obligations. She coordinates the EU advocacy work on these issues and implements Frank Bold’s policy outreach.
Before joining Frank Bold, Julia worked on corporate accountability and supply chain due diligence for several years at non-profit organization in Berlin. She has gained experience in advocacy, campaigning, and research, but also in academia and theatre.
Julia holds an MA in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva and has studied International Relations at the University of Dresden and the Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny in Poznań. She likes to spend her holidays high up in the mountains.
„What motivates me to work in the field of business and human rights at Frank Bold, is how we are being very straightforward about what we propose and try to live up to it internally.”
The Russian war in Ukraine has, in addition to the COVID-19 global pandemic, once again highlighted the need for corporate human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) regulation, such as the proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
European companies can now take a look at the draft sustainability reporting standards they will report against in the coming years. The drafts were developed by the EFRAG Project Task Force on EU Sustainability Reporting Standards, with the participation of two Frank Bold representatives - Head of the Responsible Companies Section Filip Gregor, and Joanne Houston, from Frank Bold's Brussels office. Both experts will continue contributing to the development of the EU standards as members of the newly established EFRAG Sustainability Pillar.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) proposal stipulates that EFRAG should be responsible for carrying out a due process to draft, consult and deliver EU sustainability standards for adoption by the European Commission. On 1 March, the EFRAG General Assembly appointed the members of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board, which will be responsible for all sustainability reporting positions of EFRAG, including technical advice to the European Commission on draft EU Sustainability Reporting Standards and related amendments.
