Mari-lou Dupont is FLA’s Senior Vice President, Social Compliance. She previously joined FLA as Director, Social Compliance-Accreditation and brings over 15 years of experience advocating for human rights and decent working conditions globally.
Dupont started her career as an anthropologist and lawyer working alongside First Nations in her native Canada. Based in Paris from 2013-2017, Dupont acted as a legal expert on investment policies, responsible business conduct and grievance mechanisms at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. While in France, she also advised the private sector on upcoming due diligence legislation as a consultant. From 2018-2022, she oversaw the promotion and implementation of the Labour Principles of the United Nations Global Compact. In that role, she managed a portfolio of labor and decent work-related projects, including the Decent Work in Global Supply Chains Action Platform — a group of multinational enterprises and partners committed to taking collective action and developing tools to improve working conditions and human rights in their supply chains.
Dupont holds degrees in anthropology and law from the University of Montreal and successfully completed the bar examinations of Quebec and Paris. She is fluent in English and French.
