Tu Rinsche
Tu Rinsche is an award-winning sustainability and social impact leader with twenty years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams, advancing policy initiatives, and building global campaigns that have protected marginalized communities and fostered the wellbeing of workers. Tu’s career has spanned government, global brands, and the nonprofit sector, giving her deep expertise in what it takes to deliver results.
Tu is a leader in corporate social impact strategy, human rights due diligence and reporting, and strategic engagement. She was the Global Head of Human Rights at HP Inc, where she chaired the company’s internal Human Rights Council and led the Human Rights Office, which was responsible for enterprise-level human rights policy, governance, mandatory disclosures, and reporting. At The Walt Disney Company, she designed and launched the first multimillion dollar social investment fund dedicated to responsible sourcing and manufacturing in emerging markets, as well as developed the M&E framework and conducted site visits to assess program effectiveness. At Marriott International, she led multi-disciplinary teams and social impact partnerships that advanced everything from LGBTI to gender equality to human trafficking initiatives, including the company’s first mandatory human rights training for more than half-a-million hotel personnel. As Head of Corporate Responsibility for The Ritz-Carlton, she revamped the company’s charitable signature program, aligning corporate strategy with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals across 100+ properties and creating a new data-driven impact measurement framework focused on improving outcomes for local communities.
In the nonprofit sector, Tu served as Chief Impact Officer at the Minderoo Foundation-Walk Free and VP of External Affairs and Engagement for Transparentem, where she led the global engagement team to deliver the organization’s largest investigation to date. Her work has resulted in brand and supplier partnerships, greater investment in social responsibility, and real-world results for workers, including the reimbursement of “recruitment fees.”
Tu began her career in the public sector with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mauritania and the U.S. Department of State. During her time in government, she served as a policy expert and grant administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor where she managed and evaluated global grants with international organizations and coordinated multi-stakeholder partnerships with foreign governments, the United Nations, trade unions, business, and civil society to advance human rights in commodity supply chains and manufacturing industries.
Tu earned her undergraduate degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University and her Master’s in International Affairs and International Security Policy from Columbia University. She was the recipient of Nomi Network’s 2019 Corporate Social Responsibility Award and has served as a board member for Verite, a global nonprofit that promotes labor rights in the workplace, and Summer Search, a national mentoring organization for underserved youth.
Originally from Vietnam, she currently resides in Washington D.C. with her family. Outside of work, she is an endurance athlete and enjoys helping others find joy and wellbeing through running.
