Mark Taylor (D.Phil) is a researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, with a long-standing engagement with movements for social justice, including in the Middle East. His research focuses on the regulation of global value chains, with a particular focus on business and human rights and situations of violent conflict. Mark has advised trade unions, NGOs, governments, businesses and multilateral organizations on legal measures to protect people and the planet. Early in his work like, Mark worked as a human rights activist in Palestine and has since conducted several research projects elsewhere in the region. Mark has published a number of articles and is the author of War Economies and International Law (Cambridge University Press 2020).