ardea international
We are a specialist sustainability, business and human rights consultancy with
expertise in modern slavery. We deliver flexible and robust advice to
organisations on these issues, harnessing our legal expertise.Colleen founded
Ardea in 2010 (back then CLT-Envirolaw) with the vision to harness her niche
legal expertise in order to help companies understand how to meet their legal
obligations for sustainability and business and human rights and create
progressive voluntary best practice standards. Tackling modern slavery in supply
chains and communities is a key passion of hers. Colleen is a tri-qualified
solicitor with over 25 years’ legal and commercial experience of working with
businesses and NGOs across sectors at both a strategic and operational level.
She provides training to both directors and employees on human rights, modern
slavery and sustainability issues. Colleen has a LLM (with distinction) in
Environmental Law from the University of Aberdeen. She is recognised by The
Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading environmental law practitioner.
Colleen is a fellow of IEMA and a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Modern
Slavery, St Mary’s University. Twickenham. She is also an independent legal
consultant and consults with Re:Links Colleen’s indefatigable passion for
combating human trafficking, led her to found the not-for-profit organisation
Finance Against Trafficking. Colleen lectures on business and human rights and
environmental issues at Birkbeck School of Law. Recently she taught on an MBA
programme at the University of Pisa on responsible business practices and modern
slavery transparency in supply chains and teaches on sustainable supply chains
at the University of Westminster. She has spoken widely on the UN Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights, modern slavery and sustainable
business.
