Henrietta Lake

Founder & Director

Henri is Founder and Director of Lake Advisory. Extensive first-hand experience in factories and on farms in India, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand and West Africa inform her expertise. With a focus on building supplier capacities to handle their own challenges, demonstrating the importance of worker engagement and the intelligent use of data, Henri strives to improve both labour rights in supply chains and firm performance. With a greater industry focus on recruitment practices, Henri is also working closely with the ALP on a certification scheme for labour providers and is an active member of the Stronger Together Strategy Group.

Henri graduated from Oxford University and obtained her PhD in political science from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the USA. Her doctoral research examined the business benefits of improved working conditions, focusing on how advanced human resource management (HRM) systems and work organisation impact productivity. Previously Henrietta was a financial journalist at The Mail on Sunday and then The Times.