Dr Sorcha MacLeod is an Associate Professor and Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellow at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, in the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI). She is also a Guest Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance and Justus Liebig University Giessen. She specialises in researching and teaching business, human rights and security, in particular the regulation and human rights impacts of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC). In 2018, Dr MacLeod was appointed as an independent human rights expert to the UN Working Group on the use of Mercenaries established under the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures. She is an invited expert to the UN Open-ended Inter-governmental Working Group on PMSCs and participated in the drafting of the Montreux Document on Private Military and Security Companies and the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers. She has Observer Status at the International Code of Conduct Association. Her Marie Curie research project 'RESpECT - Public Actions, Private Rules at the Margins: Ensuring Respect for Human Rights by Private Security Companies' has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.844999. Dr MacLeod writes here in her academic capacity.