WJ Yao

Regional Lead, Asia

As Asia Regional Lead at Verité, WJ brings over 25 years of corporate social responsibility (CSR) experience and is a driving force behind Verité’s worker-centered approach in supplier improvement programs.

Her leadership spans diverse initiatives, from working with multinational companies and suppliers to strengthen management systems and capacity to address human rights risk, enhancing local civil society organizations’ capacities to advocate for workers’ rights, and developing CSR curricula for Chinese universities and technical schools.

Rooted in deep field experience, WJ’s expertise has contributed to multi-stakeholder initiatives to promote workers’ rights to freedom of association, worker participation, and worker engagement in global supply chains.