Lucy Amis

Lucy has been the Child Rights and Sport Specialist for Unicef UK since 2016 where she has advised the Commonwealth Games Federation on human and child rights. She has provided technical expertise on human and child rights implementation to the Organizing Committees for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and Bahamas 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, and actively supported the work of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights and its precursor the MSE Platform on Human Rights, co-authoring Championing Rights in the Governance of Sport Bodies.

Lucy is also a Research Fellow (Mega Sporting Events) for the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), where between 2012-16 she was the research lead and established IHRB’s mega-sporting events programme. She was principal author of Striving for Excellence – Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights. She coordinated partner relations and events and in 2016 oversaw  the development of 12 White Papers published by the MSE Platform on Human Rights that helped lay the foundation for the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, co-authoring the Sporting Chance Principles. Lucy has written the Sporting Chance Forum: Meeting Reports for 2016, 2017 and 2019, and the Wilton Park Report: Human Rights and Mega-Sporting Events (2015). She has also given human rights expert advice to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. 

Lucy was business and human rights analyst at the International Business Leaders Forum (2000-2009), where among other things she was co-architect and co-author of Human Rights Translated: A Business Reference Guide. Lucy was previously human rights and arms researcher for responsible investment charity EIRIS, having interned for arms control think-tank BASIC and Senator John Kerry. From London, Lucy holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics.