7th Annual CCHART Summer Symposium (2023)

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Speakers

DS Andrew Masterson

Andrew has over 15 years of Law enforcement experience, he has been in the City of London Police since 2010. He has had a varied career in Policing covering, public order, specialist counter terrorism, disaster victim identification and serious and complex crime investigation. Since 2017, Andrew has worked in the City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate, during which time he has managed Overseas Anti Corruption investigation teams, played a key role in the implementation of the Attorney General’s Disclosure Review, before moving into the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) in 2019.
Since September 2019, Andrew has held the role of Disruptions and Engagement lead for PIPCU. His has the full responsibility for developing and implementing an engagement strategy to increase awareness, in the sometimes unrealised dangers of counterfeit goods and copyright infringing sites. As part of this role, he has projected the global online profile of PIPCU and its operational arm in this area. OP Creative; seeking to disrupt websites allowing access to copyright content through, the IWL, Advertising and payment disruptions. OP Ashiko suspending websites advertising the sale of TM goods on the .uk domain.

Ann Lukowiak JP

Ann Lukowiak is a prosecutor working at a national level at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Belgium. She is dealing only with cases of organized crime. Her main focus is Trafficking in Human Beings, Migrant Smuggling and CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material).

She has been working in these phenomena since 2009. She is also the national SPOC (single point of contact) for her Belgian colleagues as well as European and international partners.

Caroline Haughey KC OBE

Caroline Haughey OBE KC (Furnival Chambers) is regarded as one of the leading legal experts in Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery in the UK today. She prosecuted the first case of modern slavery in the UK ( R-v- SK) and subsequently advised the all parliamentary group on the Modern Slavery Act, was involved in the drafting of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, commissioned as the sole author of the 216 Haughey Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act, was the joint expert legal advisor the Independent Modern Slavery Act Review 2019, and most recently brought the barristers perspective for the Modern Slavery Parliamentary Review in Westminster, July 2nd 2023.
Prosecuting Counsel during Operation Fort, at the time the largest human trafficking prosecution ever to be undertaken in Europe at the time, Caroline received her Honorary Degree from St Mary’s University London, earlier this year.

Dr. Carrie Pemberton Ford

Dr Carrie Pemberton Ford is the Executive Director and Founder of the Cambridge Centre of Applied Research in Human Trafficking. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Nicosia, the Romanian American University in Bucharest, Romania, and the University of Palermo, Italy. She was the founder of the Not for Sale movement in 2002, which has subsequently become a global brand. She was a founding board member of the UK Human Trafficking Centre established in South Yorkshire by the UK Government in 2006, responsible for Training, Research and Education with Crown Prosecution Service lead prosecutor and UKHTC Director Glynn Rankin, founding trustee of CCARHT. As the founder of the CHASTE Housing Round Table in 2003, Carrie drove the innovation of drawing in religious bodies into the provisioning of safe housing for survivors of Trafficking Abuse, within the UK and networking across Europe through the EU-funded Churches Against Trafficking, a Daphne- funded initiative.
Carrie is also the Senior Fellow for Ethics in Public Life, based at the Margaret Beaufort Institute at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Centre for Global Human Movement based at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, and an ordained Anglican Priest.

Judge Swati Chauhan

Judge Swati Chauhan is a member of the Indian judiciary who has dedicated her career to combating human trafficking in India. She served as the first magistrate of Mumbai’s specialized court for cases under the Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act, in which role she adjudicated individual cases before her and demonstrated the police linkages between cases, which led to the arrests of numerous trafficking kingpins. In 2011, the U.S. Department of State honored her with its “Trafficking in Persons Report Hero Acting to End Modern Slavery Award”, given to individuals around the world who have devoted their lives to the fight against human trafficking.

She has written about the legal framework preventing human trafficking for the edited volume Human Trafficking: The Stakeholders’ Perspective (2013) and has spoken about her work at national and international conferences.

Mina Chiang

Specialising in modern slavery, human rights, and poverty, Mina has an interdisciplinary background in engineering, sociology, anthropology and international development. She has consulted in some of the world’s poorest and conflict-affected countries. With research experience in modern slavery, forced labour, and human rights issues across a wide range of UN bodies, governments and NGOs, Mina is becoming a sought-after expert.

She is also a coordinator and board director for the Rotary Action Group Against Slavery (RAGAS), a Delta 8.7 Policy Guide working group member, and a CCARHT board member.

Benjamin Greer

Mr. Greer’s role at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is as a subject matter expert in the field of human trafficking and child sexual exploitation; specifically instructing and developing human trafficking courses for law enforcement and emergency management personnel.

His primary tasks include: Creating multiple courses related to human trafficking and child sexual exploitation for OES’s California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI); Researching and course development on the nexus between terrorist financing and human trafficking; Working with the State Threat Assessment Center, Joint Terrorism Task Forces and Fusion Centers on human trafficking intelligence products; and Providing issue directed briefings for the OES Director and California legislators/policy makers on the current state of human trafficking and of its nexus to terrorism in California.

Before joining Cal OES, he served as a Special Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice – Office of the Attorney General (Harris). There he led a team in the comprehensive report for the California Attorney General entitled, “The State of Human Trafficking in California 2012.” He has published numerous law review and international journal articles and have presented/lectured in 10 counties. He is a federally recognized human trafficking training expert by the Office for Victims of Crime Training & Technical Assistance Center (OVC – TTAC) and Bureau of Justice Assistance Training and Technical Assistance Center (BJA – NTAC); helped California draft/negotiate Memoranda of Understanding with the Mexican Government, draft and lobby anti-trafficking legislation (both domestically and internationally) and plays a prominent role as Contributing/Advisory Board member on two International peer reviewed Anti-Trafficking Journals.

Aside from his work with CalOES, he recently graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security master’s degree Program and is a Research Associate for the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT).

Gaon Hart

Former Senior Crown Advocate (prosecutor) for Special Crimes and Counter Terrorism Division. Expert in corruption and corporate compliance for large scale corporates after being Head of Anti-Bribery & Corruption and Fraud for an international bank and currently consulting with Border Force.

Kevin Hyland OBE

Following 30 year in policing, including leading London’s Human Trafficking Unit, in 2014 Kevin Hyland OBE was appointed as the UK’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner serving with distinction until 2018. He was the author of SDG 8.7 and led efforts for its inclusion for the eradication of human trafficking within the UN 15 year global goals.
In 2018 Mr Hyland was elected as Ireland’s representative to the Council of Europe Independent Group of Experts for Trafficking. He was instrumental in the establishment and remains chief advisor to the Santa Marta Group, a high-level partnership between law enforcement agencies, faith groups and civil society launched by Pope Francis at the Vatican.
He leads several international anti trafficking projects chairing the Responsible Recruitment Group of the Institute of Human Rights and Business and the Island of Ireland Human Trafficking Project and provides strategic leadership to the OSCE in producing global victim support guidance.

Philip Ishola

Philip is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the human rights organization Love146 and is the former CEO of the Counter Human Trafficking Bureau. He has over 25 years of experience working across government at central and local government levels.
In 2010 Philip was appointed by the United Kingdom Government to the newly created Independent Family Returns Panel as an independent child safeguarding advisor to the UK Home Department. A post Philip held until spring 2021. In 2016 Philip was appointed the UK Expert Representative to the Conseil de l’Europe (Council of Europe) Group of Experts on Children’s Rights and Safeguards in the Context of Migration (CAHENF-Safeguards).
Philip was also the deputy chair of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) Human Trafficking Centre Victim Care Group and member of the SOCA Child Protect Group with specific responsibility for children’s interests and welfare.
Philip maintains a strong interest in safeguarding children in need. He works closely with a range of statutory and non-statutory organizations across the Member States of the Council of Europe working to improve child protective systems and ensure their rights are recognised and delivered.

Dr. Mlado Ivanovic

Dr. Mlado Ivanovic is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northern Michigan University. With a deep commitment to critical social theory and its emancipatory potential, his research interests primarily revolve around questions of justice within humanitarian and environmental contexts. Dr. Ivanovic’s extensive body of published work covers a broad spectrum of topics, including humanitarianism, media studies, democratic inclusion, and the multifaceted experiences of refugees. According to his colleagues, his research excels in elucidating the intersections and interplay among these crucial themes. Beyond his academic pursuits, he
is actively involved in practical initiatives aimed at creating positive change. He serves as the director of a Michigan-based non-governmental organization “Refugee Outreach Collective” dedicated to assisting forcibly displaced individuals, both within the United States and abroad. In this capacity, Dr. Ivanovic actively collaborates with diverse communities and stakeholders, leveraging his expertise to craft innovative strategies and initiatives that advance the well- being and empowerment of those impacted by forced displacement and other humanitarian challenges.

Dr. Maria Chiara Monti

Dr Maria Chiara Monti (1976, Palermo) is a clinical psychologist and group-analist, she is an expert in the field of ethno-psychiatry. She works in the mental health of vulnerable migrants, victims of trauma and gender-based violence, and she also treats victims of human trafficking and unaccompanied minors. She currently works at the Center of Ethnopsycology in Palermo, having been its founder in 2008. She participates as a speaker at seminars and congresses at national and international level on the issues of the trauma of vulnerable migrants.

Professor P.M. Nair

Former Director General of Police, National Disaster Response Force; and DG of Home Guards, Civil Defence and Fire Services, Govt of India; Former Chair Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Former Project Coordinator, Anti Human Trafficking, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, South Asia, New Delhi; Former Nodal Officer Anti-Human Trafficking and Principal Researcher on Trafficking of the National Human Rights Commission, India. Advisor to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, National Commission for Women, National Resource Centre of Human Trafficking, Raksha Shakti University, Ahmedabad and Sathyabama Deemed University, Chennai. Chairperson for the Centre of Excellence and Centre of Research and Learning (CORAL) on Human Trafficking, Indian Police Foundation. Senior Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.

Revd Dr Nadim Nassar

The Revd Nadim Nassar is a Syrian-British Anglican priest, who is the Executive Director and Founder of the Awareness Foundation; established in 2003 with Bishop Michael Marshall in response to the growing need to study the Christian faith in the context of the 21st century. Nadim Nassar is a member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’s Inter Faith Theological Advisory Group, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on International Religious Freedom, and he advises the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Nassar lectures, speaks and teaches in the Middle East, Europe and the US; he leads diocesan conferences in the US, UK and Hong Kong. He gives frequent public lectures for many organisations, including the Ismaili Centre, the Christian Muslim Forum and Near Neighbours, and has contributed articles to Britain’s Guardian and Daily Telegraph newspapers. In 2018, Nassar’s first book, “The Culture of God”, was published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Professor Yinka Omorogbe

Prof. Omorogbe is an internationally recognized professor of energy law. She has an LL.B. from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, and an LL.M from the London School of Economics, University of London, and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).
She started her legal career as a legal practitioner in the law firm of Solomon Asemota & Co. in 1980 and later joined the Faculty of Law, University of Benin as a lecturer in 1983. In 1990 she moved to the University of Lagos as a Senior lecturer, where she remained until her appointment in July 2002 as a professor of law of the University of Ibadan. She was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2005 until January 2009, when she was appointed as Secretary to the Corporation and Legal Adviser, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) a position she held until July 2011. She is currently a research professor (Nabo Graham Douglas Distinguished Professor of Law) at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Abuja, Nigeria. Prof Omorogbe has several publications, including books, monographs, book chapters and articles in leading international journals. She is also a regular speaker at workshops and conferences internationally and within Nigeria.
Professor Omorogbe was a member of the two Oil and Gas Sector Reform Implementation Committees (OGIC I and II) established from 2000- 2006, and again in 2007. Within OGIC II she was the Chair, Legal Regulatory Committee (2000-2006) which produced the first Petroleum Industry Bill. She has several international and national affiliations including being a member
of the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the section on Energy Environment and Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) of the International Bar Association; Member, Legal Aspects of Sustainable Energy for All Community of Practice; Deputy President I, Nigerian Society of International Law; and Fellow, Nigerian Association of Energy Economics (FNAEE). She is a member of Council, Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State.

Dr. Kyla Raby

Kyla Raby is an internationally recognised antitrafficking specialist with expertise in designing and implementing survivor support services and developing evidence-based recommendations for policy change. She has worked with survivors of modern slavery in Australia, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Greece with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Her research specialisations are related to the role of consumers in responding
to modern slavery, intersections between housing and exploitation, and strengthening rights, support, and protection for survivors.
Kyla is a member of the inaugural New South Wales Anti-slavery Commissioner Advisory Panel, the Australian Government’s Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Research Network, and the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery & Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre Peer Review College. She is a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia and the founder of a social media project, Everyday Slavery, funded by the Australian Government.

Dr. Gopala Sasie Rekha

Dr Gopala Sasie Rekha is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Policing, Criminology and Forensics at the University of Winchester. She teaches a wide variety of subjects including a module on Modern Slavery, which she developed.
She obtained her PhD in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology from the University of Southampton in 2022. Title: “Life After Trafficking: The Social Reintegration Process of Victims of Sex Trafficking and Their Families in Indonesia” and is currently working on her monograph and a book chapter.
She is a member of the Editorial Team for Mahadi: Indonesia Journal of Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Sumatra Utara and a Peer Reviewer at the Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights.

Dr.Sara Savage

Dr Sara Savage is a social psychologist based in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge and directs the ICthinking research group.
For the previous 15 years Sara worked as Senior Research Associate in the Psychology and Religion Research Group at Cambridge, during which she and her colleagues developed a unique intervention to address extremism. Sara continues to develop empirically based interventions to prevent extremism and inter-group violence through programmes that operationalise and measure the construct of (IC) Integrative Complexity (Suedfeld 2010), such as Being Muslim Being British, Being Kenyan Being Muslim, IC in Scotland (I SEE) and Conflict Transformation, published in a number of empirical articles and chapters.

Guillaume Soto-Mayor

Guillaume Soto-Mayor, graduate from Oxford and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, is currently a research engineer in charge of leading the development of the security and defense research team of the CNAM. He is also Lecturer in several master’s degree schools (Sciences Po Paris, St Andrews, IEP Strasbourg, CNAM). As an analyst and expert for the United Nations as for the former advisor to the General Commander of the French Elements in Senegal, he conducted, extensive field research on conflicts, instability, criminal and terrorist networks in West, Central and North Africa. Simultaneously, he conducts a large amount of sensitization and operational support work to local and international leaders on these issues.
His current research works focuses on the role of Mafias as geostrategic actors, on organized crime (human, migrants, drugs, weapons, drugs, environmental, etc.) and terrorist networks (operation, financing, etc.) in Africa and Europe, on radicalization and exit of violence, and finally the repository of radical proselytism. He has notably published a piece on Criminal Networks: the Forgotten Actors of International Politics in the International Journal on Criminology.

Philippa Southwell

Philippa Southwell is Managing Director of Southwell & Partners, a leading law firm specialising in criminal, modern slavery and regulatory law.. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2009 as a Barrister, having cross qualified, she practices as a Solicitor Advocate. Philippa is also Managing Director of the Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery Expert Directory. She lectures extensively both domestically and throughout the Middle East and Europe. Philippa also advises companies on modern slavery and human rights compliance.

She was called to give evidence as a legal expert in the Home Affairs Select Committee Modern Slavery Inquiry. Philippa has acted on several hundred modern slavery cases. She has acted in most of the significant and leading cases involving victims of modern slavery and forced criminality of the last decade and has acted at all levels, representing the interests of victims of trafficking, including the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. She is a published author and co-author of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Law and Practice (Bloomsbury 1st and 2nd Edition), Co Author of “Does the new Slavery Defence Offer Victims any Greater Protection” (Archbold Review 9th November 2015 issue 9).

Professor Toine Spapens

Toine Spapens is full Professor of Criminology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He specialises in research on organised drug crime, environmental crime, and cross-border enforcement cooperation. His empirical studies include inter alia the trafficking in illicit firearms, narcotic drug production, criminal families, waste trafficking and wildlife crime. His theoretical work focuses on organised crime networks, the regulation of (former) illegal markets and multi- agency approaches to serious and organised crime problems.

He contributed to the project TRACE (Trafficking as a criminal enterprise) in 2014-2015, and was project leader of IMOBEX (Improving enforcement at the intersection of mobile banditry and exploitation) in 2021-2023.

Dr. Marcel van der Watt

Marcel van der Watt, Ph.D., is the Director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation in Washington, D.C. He is an internationally accoladed investigative and research professional with over two decades of experience combating the interspersing criminal economies of organized crime, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation.

He is a former sex trafficking police investigator and hostage and suicide negotiator and has consulted and provided expert court testimony in several sex trafficking cases.

Klaus Vanhoutte

National Operational Coordinator Anti-Trafficking. FOD Justitie SPF Justice since Jun 2023 ; Permanent expert at federal commission on Human Trafficking; formerly Director of Payoke – accomodation and support for all Victims of Trafficking lead NGO in Belgium.

Erin West

Erin West is proud to serve as prosecutor to REACT — Santa Clara County’s elite high tech investigative force — who has taken down international SIM swappers, disrupted fraudulent call centers abroad and now is actively working to combat the romance investment scammers known as pig butcherers. She is particularly interested in assisting victims and being a resource to state and local law enforcement eager to enter the cryptocurrency investigation arena.

Professor Bahija Jamal

Dr Bahija Jamal is a Law Professor at Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia Faculty of Law. She has an extensive expertise on the nexus of migration, anti-human trafficking and countering violent extremism and terrorism. She led teams in conducting academic researchers in the field of Conflict Transformation, human trafficking, forced displacement and new trends of contemporary migration. For over 10 years, she has advised international organizations on how to deal with organized terrorism through a combined security approach and a human right- based and gender perspectives. She is a key contributor to the United Nations regional events in the Middle East and North Africa, with specific reference to the role women in preventing and countering violent extremism and terrorism. She previously worked for the UNHCR as Officer in charge of eligibility of Refugee Status Determination. She also worked for the Ministry in Charge of Moroccans Living Abroad and Migration Affairs. In that capacity, she represented the Ministry at the Committee in charge of drafting Morocco’s anti-trafficking law and the one in charge of drafting the Moroccan Immigration Law. Dr Bahija Jamal has a Doctorate Degree (Ph.D.) in International Law from Hassan II University in Casablanca–Faculty of Law. She is currently teaching transnational organized crimes (smuggling of migrants and human trafficking), terrorism and Combating Racism and Hate Speech.

Professor Leo Zaibert

Leo Zaibert joined the Institute in 2022. He holds a law degree from Universidad Santa María, in Caracas, Venezuela (where he briefly practiced law, after having clerked in several criminal law courts as a student), and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York in Buffalo. So, as a lawyer, his formal training was in the “civil law” legal tradition, whereas as a philosopher, his formal training was in the Anglo-American “analytical” tradition. He is thus conversant with the broad canon of Western penal theory, and is particularly interested in comparative approaches to this and other matters. While he has wide-ranging interests, he specializes in penal theory and ethics. In particular, he tries to bring penal theory into closer contact not only with ethics as such, but with relatively neglected currents within ethics. He has argued that progress in penal theory involves engaging with the morality of punishment in general, and not only with that of state punishment. He has suggested seeing punishment as a moral dilemma, and as the sort of dilemma that often leaves important remainders, even after the dilemma gets “resolved”, even after punishment is “justified”. And he has suggested that the notion of “justification” typically at play in penal theory is much more complex than customarily assumed. He sees penal theory as importantly enriched if we relate it to the specialized (and recent) literatures on the problem of dirty hands, moral luck, and value pluralism, and to other areas of moral psychology and moral phenomenology. Thus, he pays attention to famous authors that tend to be overlooked by penal theorists: from Aristotle, Seneca, and Anselm, to Isaiah Berlin, P. F. Strawson and Bernard Williams (and including many in between, such as Leibniz, Brentano, Weber, and Moore). His approach to penal theory leads him to probe the connections between punishment and other responses to wrongdoing, above all forgiveness.

Professor Leoluca Orlando

Leoluca Orlando was Mayor of Palermo between 1985 and 2000. He gained international fame through his successful fight against the mafia and became one of Silvio Berlusconi’s fiercest adversaries. He was re-elected Mayor of Palermo in 2012 and 2017 until resigning after five terms in 2022. He is a recipient of the Goethe Medal, received the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize in 2005, the Konrad Adenauer Prize in 2008, the German Sustainability Prize in 2013, the Heine Prize in 2018 and the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2021.
Leoluca Orlando was a member of the Italian Parliament and Speaker of the Italy of Values party, which he co-founded. In Parliament he was on the foreign affairs commission and President
of the Inquiry Commission on National Service. He also served as Vice President in Palermo Congress and as Vice-President of ELDR party (European Liberal Democratic and Reform). During his career he has been associated with several parties, including Le Rete (The Net or The Network), which he founded.
In addition, Leoluca Orlando is also active as a writer. In 2004, “The Sicilian Cart: Stories” was published. In “I Should Be Next: Moral Courage – The Chance Against Corruption and Terror” (2002) and in “I Should Be Next: A Politician in the Crosshairs of the Mafia” (2010), he describes his experiences with the mafia in Sicily.
Leoluca’s latest book “The Palermo Enigma: the politics, the fear, the future. The story of a city and its mayor.” is to be published later this month.

Professor Nicola Padfield

Professor Nicola Padfield QC (Hon), MA, Dip Crim, DES was Master of Fitzwilliam College from 2013-2019.
Nicola Padfield is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1991. She has held a number of posts in the College including President, Director of Studies and Admissions Tutor.
After her first degree at St Anne’s College, Oxford she came to Cambridge (Darwin College) to study for the Diploma in Criminology. Called to the Bar in 1978, she then spent a year at the University of Aix-Marseille and married Christopher (who read Engineering at Fitzwilliam and graduated in 1971). Since they returned to Cambridge nearly 25 years ago, her teaching and research has covered a broad canvas in criminal law, sentencing and criminal justice more generally. She sat as a Recorder (part-time judge) in the Crown Court from 2002-2014, is a Bencher of the Middle Temple and served as the University Advocate for several years. She was appointed as Honorary Queen’s Counsel in 2018.
Nicola Padfield’s books include ‘The Criminal Justice Process: Text and Materials’ (5th edition, 2016); ‘Criminal Law’ (10th edition, 2016), and ‘Beyond the Tariff: Human rights and the release of life sentence prisoners’ (2002). She has edited and contributed to a number of more recent collections of essays on parole and early release (which has involved research in a number of European countries).
Whilst maintaining a wide academic lens, her recent research has explored how the law on release from, and recall to, prison works in practice, and how it is perceived by offenders and those who work in the system. This under-researched area provides an important contribution to the understanding of how offenders are best supported in their attempts to desist from criminal life-styles, and how the rehabilitation and resettlement of offenders can be better encouraged. She has been active in a number of pan-European research networks and Criminal Law Review.

Dr. Esohe Aghatise

Esohe AGHATISE is a lawyer with a doctorate in International Economic and Trade Law. She is a Cross-Cultural Mediator who has provided services for more than 25 years to victims of trafficking in Europe. She is a visiting lecturer at the UNICRI Masters programme in Turin, Italy and at the Norwegian Police College, Oslo.
She is the Founder and Executive Director of IROKO Charity, with offices in Italy and Nigeria, which provides services to survivors of sex trafficking. She is a member of the Boards of the CATW an international NGO with Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC ; of the British Society of Black Lawyers, SBL; of the YWCA-UCDG ; Trustee and Founding member of the Edo Women’s Development Initiative (EWDI) Nigeria; a founding member of the Edo State Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings ; Trustee of the Centre for Women’s Justice, UK and of the Editorial Board of Dignity Journal, USA, a journal on sexual exploitation and violence.
Esohe was recently the Chief of Party/Team Leader of the Palladium Group DFID funded SOTIN Programme.
She was the Consultant anti Trafficking Programmes Manager for Equality Now . She was also a member and expert contributor of the Advisory Board, Immigrant Council of Ireland, Dublin.

She is a UN Expert on Trafficking as well as an OSCE/ODIHR Expert and Consultant on Trafficking. She has testified about trafficking and prostitution before the European Parliament and before several European national parliaments including the Italian Parliament, both Houses of the British Parliament, the Norwegian, French, Swedish, Spanish and Icelandic Parliaments amongst others.

Esohe was honoured in 2007 by the US State Department as a “Hero in the Fight against Modern Day Slavery”. In 2005, the University of Messina and the CO.B.-GE also awarded her recognition of the “Premio di Donna nel Terzo Millenio: Madre Teresa di Culcutta” (Mother Theresa of Calcutta ‘Prize for Women in the Third Millenium’) for her work against trafficking, in the XVIII Edition of the “ELIO VITTORINI” Literary and Artistic Prize Awards. She was awarded a Service to the Nation Prize by the Nigerian Government in 2008. In 2013/2014, the European Institute for Gender Equality honoured her as one of the Women and Men Inspiring Europe in the promotion of Gender Equality. Most recently, she was awarded the Valour and Persistence Prize by the ENOMW.
She has also produced a short film on trafficking entitled “Journey of No Return” (Viaggio di Non Ritorno).

Stefan Coman

Advocate for Human Rights. Operations, Program and Project Manager, worked in NGOs for the past 10 years and for the last 4 years has been starting and managing an IT company that currently employs 15 people. Background in Psychology and Theology, passionate about people and building projects that can make an impact.

Profeessor Andreas Kapardis

Andreas is Professor of Psychology and Law, Department of Law, University of Cyprus, a Visiting Professor in Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University and a Life-Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and lectures part- time at the Cyprus Police Academy. Andreas is also an elected Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He holds a Ph.D in Criminology from Cambridge University and is a graduate of the Senior Investigator’s Course, Detective Training School, Victoria Police, Australia. For a number of years he was a university academic in Australia and did consultancy work for the Victoria Police. His main research and teaching interests lie in the Criminal Sciences: criminology, criminal justice, forensic psychology, and penology.
He has researched and published on a very broad range of topics, including: forest arson, armed robbers, homicide offenders including: sentencing, non-custodial penalties, prisoner recidivism, prisoner reintegration, crime and criminal justice in colonial times and today, monoepisodic mass murderers, white-collar crime, economic crimes by banks, juvenile delinquency, school violence, bullying, lethal domestic violence, and high-risk drivers. He has recently finished a study of deterrent penalties for traffic offences, another of the Cyprus Police anti-terrorist group in action and, also, the legal framework and the functioning of the private security industry in Cyprus.
Internationally, Andreas has been a member of the Scientific Criminological Council of the Council of Europe and an Expert Member of the Observatory for the Free Movement of European Union Workers within the EU. In Cyprus, he has worked as a prison governor, was a founding member and Vice-Chairman of the Parole Board of Cyprus, is a member of the Cyprus Crime Prevention Council (Ministry of Justice and Public Order). Finally, he is the President of the Cyprus Society of Criminology and Vice-President of the Cyprus Cambridge Society.

Dr. Marija Jovanovic

Dr Jovanović is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Essex. Her research focuses on modern slavery and the way this phenomenon interacts with different legal regimes, such as human rights law, criminal law, labour law, immigration law, international trade law, and business regulation. She is the author of State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ in Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Marija holds DPhil, MPhil, and Magister Juris degrees from the University of Oxford, and a law degree from Serbia. She previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in ASEAN Law and Policy at the National University of Singapore, and worked as a Lecturer at the University of Kragujevac and University of Belgrade. She regularly consults for international and non-governmental organisations.
Dr Jovanović is currently leading a research project ‘Survivors of Modern Slavery in Prisons:
The Blind Spot of the UK Anti-Slavery Regime’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, which investigates the experiences of modern slavery survivors in the UK prisons. The research team is comprised of: Dr Patrick Burland (IOM), the Hibiscus Initiatives, Vanessa Topp and Franziska Fluhr (University of Essex).

Vanessa Topp
(Dr. Jovanovic Research Team)

Vanessa Topp is a Research Officer in the research project ‘Survivors of Modern Slavery in Prisons: The Blind Spot of the UK Anti-Slavery Regime’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, which investigates the experiences of modern slavery survivors in the UK prisons.
She is currently completing an LLM in International Human Rights Law at Essex Law School, University of Essex, and holds an MA in Humanitarian Action from the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs and a BA in International Affairs from the University of Georgia. She is interested in research related to detention, migration, and human rights in conflict and has previously worked with IMPACT Initiatives conducting research on humanitarian needs in Somalia and the occupied Palestinian territory. At the University of Essex, she was a student researcher with the Human Rights Centre Clinic, analysing cases of arbitrary detention with the Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit and conducting research on strengthening oversight and accountability over UK Special Forces.

Franziska Fluhr
(Dr. Jovanovic Research Team)

Franziska Fluhr is a Research Officer in the research project ‘Survivors of Modern Slavery in Prisons: The Blind Spot of the UK Anti-Slavery Regime’ funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, which investigates the experiences of modern slavery survivors in the UK prisons.
She is currently completing an LLM in International Humanitarian Law at Essex Law School, University of Essex, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
She gained practical experience, inter alia, at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Human Rights Watch, and the European Parliament. There, she mainly worked on different aspects related to human rights and forced migration. She was also a student researcher with the University of Essex’ Arbitrary Detention Redress Unit where she analysed cases of arbitrary detention submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and researched novel issues regarding detention-related human rights violations.

Professor Luis C de Baca

Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca, ‘93, led U.S. government activities in the global fight against contemporary forms of slavery during the Obama administration. As Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, C.deBaca updated statutes created after the Civil War and through the 13th Amendment to develop the victim-centered approach to modern slavery that has become the global standard for combating human trafficking.
In the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), C.deBaca investigated and prosecuted complex criminal cases, negotiated labor and human rights advances, and managed multi-million dollar grant portfolios combating slavery and sexual abuse. As one of the most decorated federal prosecutors in the U.S., he investigated and prosecuted cases of human trafficking, hate crimes, and police misconduct, as well as immigration, organized crime, and money laundering. He built his litigation record into policy, incorporating the voices of victims, workers, and the advocacy community into decision making. As principal DOJ drafter of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act and a member of the team that negotiated the United Nations’ anti-trafficking protocol, he helped to enshrine the “3P” anti-trafficking approach of prevention, protection, and prosecution in U.S. and international practice.
Following his prosecution career, he served as Counsel to the House Committee on the Judiciary, where he handled issues of civil rights, immigration, and civil liberties, including revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In the Obama Administration, he served
as Director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons from 2009 to 2014 and as the Director of the Justice Department’s Office for Sex Offender Monitoring Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking from 2015 to 2017.
After retiring from government service, C.deBaca was a Senior Fellow of Modern Slavery at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and served as a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Lecturer of Architecture at Yale School of Architecture. He also was a 2017-2019 Soros Open Society Human Rights Fellow focusing on worker-led social responsibility, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
C.deBaca’s teaching and research interests include Criminal Law, Race & Slavery, Policing, Immigration, National Security, Labor, Indian Law, International Law, and Civil Rights. Current projects include an inquiry into the imprint of current and historical forms of slavery and involuntary servitude on the built environment, re-thinking business practices that incentivize the use of forced labor, and preparatory work toward a national slavery memorial in Washington, D.C.

Professor Roland R. Knobbout

Roland R. Knobbout is a public prosecutor in The Hague, The Netherlands. He was Chairman of the National Multidisciplinary Committee advising on the victimhood of human trafficking, Chairman of the Victim Information Counter The Hague (VIC) and board member of the Dutch Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. He also worked as deputy head mutual tax assistance on the Dutch Ministry of Finance and was in former days a tax collector.

Richard Jan

Senior Detective, National Police Agency Taiwan

Lina Garcia Daza

Lina Garcia-Daza is the Acting Lead for Trafficking, Forced Marriage, and Forced Labour at the Australian Red Cross. She has over a decade of experience working with human rights and international humanitarian law.