Isabel Daum is a lawyer and works as a researcher and policy adviser at the German Institute for Human Rights since 2025. In this role, she supports reporting to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRANET) on fundamental rights in corporate sustainability and due diligence.
Previously, she worked at the Institute’s International Human Rights Policy department as a researcher and policy advisor on business and human rights, in the private sector as an ESG analyst for sustainable investments and as a lecturer on human rights and anti-discrimination law.
Isabel Daum studied German law (state exam), international law (M.A.) and international relations (B.A.) at Free University Berlin, Harvard Law School, Graduate Institute Geneva, Technical University Dresden and in Madrid.
She gained experience in political human rights work at various non-governmental organizations such as the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the International Commission of Jurists (icj); as well as intergovernmental institutions such as the Council of Europe and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. As a Carlo-Schmid-Fellow at the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN) she worked on environmental due diligence of business.
