Motoko Aizawa is Managing Director USA at the Institute for Human Rights and Business. She is an expert on environmental, social and governance dimensions of sustainability, as well as policy initiatives to help governments and companies improve their sustainability performance. Ms. Aizawa is the principal author of the 2006 IFC Performance Standards, and the human rights provisions in the 2012 version of these Standards. She began her career as a business lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions and project financing of infrastructure projects in emerging markets.