Dr. Bonny Ling is a practitioner and researcher working to contribute to positive social impact internationally and locally. With a background in international human rights and development, she has worked as a ESG analyst and consultant for international businesses driving change for corporate responsibility. Her professional background includes international public service with the UN in field assignments (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and Liberia) and civil society. She co-founded the Taiwan Project for Business and Human Rights in 2023 and is a university lecturer on responsible business. In 2024, she received the international Fletcher Women’s Leadership Award for her work with the private sector to bring about decent work and economic growth.
Dr Bonny Ling is the Executive Director of Work Better Innovations, an international social enterprise working on new ideas for a responsible economy, both as a research consultancy and as a community service organisation.
The education and training work by Work Better Innovations on preventing the risks of forced labour has appeared in the corporate sustainability reports of Target, Dell and HPE. Bonny led WBI in receiving the Community Innovation of the Year Award in 2022 in Portsmouth, UK for our community service work to build a responsibility economy from the ground up.
Bonny is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow with the University of Nottingham Taiwan Research Hub; a Research Fellow at the international think-tank, Institute for Human Rights and Business; a Global Taiwan Institute Scholar and Visiting Professor at the School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, where she teaches a postgraduate course on business and human rights.
She is Co-Founder of the Taiwan Project for Business and Human Rights, a project dedicated to increase knowledge and build the local capacity needed to address business and human rights issues in Taiwan.
She received a PhD in Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, an MPhil in Criminology from Cambridge University and an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School. She has worked for the UN in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus and Liberia, as well as having served as an international election observer in East Timor and for the OSCE in Eastern Europe. She also holds a BSc in Ecology from the University of Georgia, reflecting her longstanding interest in sustainability and environmental ethics.
She writes on human rights, migration, business responsibilities, and international development for the CommonWealth Magazine, Ketagalan Media, New Bloom, Taipei Times, Taiwan Insight, and The News Lens.
In 2024, she received the international Fletcher Women’s Leadership Award for her work with the private sector to bring about decent work and economic growth.
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