Sif Thorgeirsson

Sif Thorgeirsson is Senior Vice President, Investigations and Engagement at FLA. She joined FLA in December 2018, and now leads the work of the Fair Labor Investigations team and oversees the University Program.

Thorgeirsson is an experienced business and human rights professional as well as a US-trained lawyer. Before joining FLA, she was an independent business and human rights consultant working on projects across areas including company human rights policies and international trade and human rights. Prior to that, Thorgeirsson spent a decade at the Business & Human Rights Resource Center where she launched and managed the Corporate Legal Accountability program — the Resource Centre’s hub focused on access to remedy and the legal responsibility of businesses for human rights abuses. Before joining the Resource Centre, she was a Researcher at Yale Law School on international human rights issues (including business and human rights). Thorgeirsson started her career as an associate at a large Washington, DC law firm where she worked five years focusing on project development and finance in the energy sector, international law, and corporate law.

Thorgeirsson received her law degree from George Washington University Law School, and attended the Oxford University Summer Programme in International Human Rights Law. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Canada’s McGill University. Fluent in English and Icelandic, Thorgeirsson is also proficient in Spanish and French, and lives in Washington, DC.