Lise Smit is a Business and Human Rights Adviser based in London.

Lise is a South African-qualified lawyer with extensive experience in business and human rights and ESG-related matters. She advises on the implementation of human rights due diligence in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and related legislation, including supply chain risk management, human rights impact assessments and sustainability reporting and policies. She also advises clients on OECD National Contact Point (NCP) complaints and human rights-related litigation, including in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Lise is a leading expert on mandatory human rights due diligence and supply chain laws, with clients ranging across various industries and regions, including the financial, energy, technology, consumer goods and extractives sectors.

Lise led the study for the European Commission on supply chain due diligence which formed the basis for the European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). She was previously a Senior Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of South Africa, and barrister (advocate) at the Cape Bar in South Africa. She has served as one of eleven members of the Appeals Committee for the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) since its inception until 2023.