Chloé Bailey

Chloé Bailey  is a senior legal adviser in the Business and Human Rights program at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). She studied English law at King’s College London, UK, and French law at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. She also holds an L.LM. in public international law from King’s College London. After graduation, she conducted research on human rights and governance issues in Africa, and worked on parliamentary development programs in the Middle East. She then spent five years at the donor organization Freedom Fund, where she developed their corporate accountability initiative to address forced labor in global supply chains with a focus on strategic litigation.

Bailey has worked at ECCHR since 2022 on transnational legal interventions to advance corporate accountability in Europe. This includes arms trade litigation against European actors in the context of the conflict in Yemen, before domestic, regional and international courts. ​