# Professor Michael Posner offers guidelines for consultants who engage with government clients

1 Faculty News May 1, 2019 ![Foreign Affairs logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032456.jpg?itok=zDiENvlL)>

Excerpt from [Foreign Affairs](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/persian-gulf/2019-04-16/all-kings-consultants) -- "[Michael Posner](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/michael-posner), director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business, recommends that consultants establish clear guidelines for when to decline to work with a government, how to react when a government client asks for help on a matter that violates fundamental rights, and when to disengage from existing but inappropriate government contracts."

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