Research interests
- Business and Human Rights
- Corporate Accountability & Human Rights Due Diligence (HREDD)
- Extractive Governance & Critical Raw Materials
- Community Agency, Contestation, Distributive Justice & Intersectionality
Kaima George-Chuka is a PhD researcher in International Development at the University of Ottawa. Her research examines when and under what conditions corporate accountability mechanisms produce credible human rights outcomes in the extractive sector. She focuses on the interaction between home-state regulation, host-state institutional capacity, and community agency across diverse host-community settings.
Situated within Business and Human Rights scholarship, her work engages debates on human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD), Indigenous consultation and consent, and the governance of critical raw material supply chains within the political economy of the energy transition. She seeks to explain how accountability regimes shape corporate conduct, dispute resolution, and access to remedy, and why similar instruments produce divergent outcomes across jurisdictions.
She holds an MBA and an MA in International Law and Diplomacy and brings extensive cross-sector experience spanning higher education, technology, consulting, and banking. She is a member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), and the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), City & Guilds of London. She currently serves as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the School of International Development and Global Studies.