Mercy Erhi Makpor is a Senior Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Consultant as well as the head, Funded Projects and Partnerships at IN-CSR. She is also a researcher in the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal. Her research area is in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility with specificity to the supply chain mapping, third party relationships, stakeholder engagements, and effective CSR integration in the Oil and Gas sector. Her other interest is in the area of Human development at micro and macro levels where she focuses on individual and institutional responses to social, economic and environmental issues with the possibility of reaching and sustaining mutual grounds for human growth and development.  She has had years of experience conducting research and working with professionals from some of the biggest research teams in Canada under the Teasdale-Corti Team Grant and a host others from Europe under the European Commission.

She has lectured, chaired and made presentations at both national and international conferences, seminars and workshops on issues such as: Ethical conduct, Service Level Agreement Management, CSR Reporting, CSR – Social, Economic and Environmental Challenges as well as Sustainable Development. Others are: Gender advocacy and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights. She also takes great interest in counselling, programme facilitation, leadership and team building practices. Her core competencies rest on analysis of qualitative data, project design and implementation, as well as in monitoring and evaluation of programmes. She has a degree in Accounting from the University of Benin, Nigeria; a Master of Art in International Economy and Business from Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and a Doctorate degree in Business Administration focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility from University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.