Explore how Minal has made a tangible impact in advancing human rights across diverse sectors. These examples of her extensive experience demonstrate her depth and capacity. From structured stakeholder engagement in the sports and entertainment industry to navigating complex markets with data-driven insights, these examples showcase strategic alliances, comprehensive government approaches, and safeguarding initiatives before, during and after natural disasters.

Digital Resume

FIFA Men’s World Cup - Local Host Committee

Sports and Entertainment

  • Actualized the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the FIFA World Cup 2026 Human Rights Framework to the local context for a host city organizing committee.

  • Engaged 120 stakeholders in 4 months across 8 human rights areas.

  • Designed a unique and innovative methodology that ensured optimal efficiency with built in risk management and consensus building for a top notch submission. 

1st Comprehensive Muni-Response to Trafficking

Whole Government Approach

  • Translated the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children by designing the first in country comprehensive municipal response to human trafficking.

  • Engaged 250 stakeholders over 6 months and synthesized the information collected after conducting a strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats analysis - resulting in a strengths based, gap filling strategic plan.

  • Aspects of this strategic plan were replicated across the country and some parts of the globe.

Women and Girls Equity Fund

Market Entry and Data Insights

  • Aligned the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to the local context to create equity for women and girls.

  • This report benchmarked major cities’ performance across 41 indicators and 6 outcome focuses to measure the economic and health vitality of women and girls.

  • The purpose was market entry for a Women and Girls Equity Foundation to address historic disparities that lead to lower than average outcomes for women and girls of color.

Launched Global Online Hub with Thomson Reuters Institute

Legacy Building Strategic Alliances

  • Moved stewardship of a vast body of work created over 8 years in a political office and launched a global online resource hub with one of the world’s largest data companies, bringing the body of work to a much broader global audience and preserving the administration’s legacy of contributions in this space. We worked with numerous stakeholders to make this happen. 

Short and Long Term Natural Disaster Response

Climate Instability

  • Realized the International Office of Migration guide to natural disaster responses in the local context by creating a short- and long-term risk mitigation response to ensure constituents and laborers were not exploited during shelter stays and rebuilding efforts.

  • This multi-stakeholder, multi-prong approach collaborated with more than 30 community organizations, all levels of government, 40 corporations, and 6,000+ people whose existing vulnerabilities were exacerbated by the natural disaster.

  • Responses included cot to cot outreach in the emergency shelters, and a year of corporate risk mitigation education to prevent reputational, legal, and financial risks.