Authors

The authors of this paper com­bine between them decades of exper­tise in busi­ness and human rights, human traf­fick­ing and oth­er forms of mod­ern slav­ery, pub­lic issues advo­ca­cy, and pol­i­cy devel­op­ment. The pre­sent­ed views and opin­ions remain their own as inde­pen­dent experts and should not be asso­ci­at­ed with any of their cur­rent or past affil­i­ate organisations.

Dr Natalia Szablews­ka is a lawyer and social sci­en­tist with 20 years’ expe­ri­ence span­ning the pub­lic sec­tor, gov­ern­men­tal and non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions, and acad­e­mia in five coun­tries. She is cur­rent­ly Pro­fes­sor in Law and Soci­ety at The Open Uni­ver­si­ty (Unit­ed Kingdom/UK) and holds fur­ther aca­d­e­m­ic affil­i­a­tions in New Zealand, Aus­tralia and Cam­bo­dia. Natalia spe­cialis­es in pub­lic inter­na­tion­al law and (inter­na­tion­al) human rights law, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on cor­po­rate-relat­ed human rights respon­si­bil­i­ties. She is a Chair of Aus­tralian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR)’s Busi­ness and Human Rights Com­mit­tee and a mem­ber of the Mod­ern Slav­ery Lead­er­ship Advi­so­ry Group to the New Zealand Government.

Rebec­ca Kin­gi is a senior pol­i­cy advi­sor with spe­cif­ic exper­tise in mod­ern slav­ery, forced migra­tion and labour rights. She has advised gov­ern­ments and civ­il soci­ety on many aspects of mod­ern slav­ery pol­i­cy, includ­ing in the UK as part of the Labour Exploita­tion Advi­so­ry Group, the UK’s Anti Traf­fick­ing Mon­i­tor­ing Group and the Government’s Mod­ern Slav­ery Strat­e­gy Imple­men­ta­tion Group. Rebec­ca has also worked as a prac­ti­tion­er pro­vid­ing legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion to sur­vivors of mod­ern slav­ery and trained var­i­ous stake­hold­ers on the legal rights and enti­tle­ments of traf­fick­ing sur­vivors. She has been an advi­sor to the New Zealand Gov­ern­ment as a mem­ber of the Mod­ern Slav­ery Lead­er­ship Advi­so­ry Group.

Rebekah Arm­strong is a human rights prac­ti­tion­er with 14 years’ expe­ri­ence spe­cial­is­ing in mod­ern slav­ery, human rights and human­i­tar­i­an law. She is the Direc­tor of Busi­ness and Human Rights Con­sul­tants and Head of Advo­ca­cy and Jus­tice at World Vision. Rebekah is Chair of the New Zealand Human Traf­fick­ing Research Coali­tion, respon­si­ble for pub­lish­ing the first research on work­er exploita­tion in New Zealand. She is an advi­so­ry mem­ber for the New Zealand Cen­tre for Research on Mod­ern Slav­ery and a mem­ber of the Mod­ern Slav­ery Lead­er­ship Advi­so­ry Group to the New Zealand Government.

Quintin Lake is co-founder of Fifty Eight, who bring togeth­er research, tech­nol­o­gy and part­ner­ships to address
the chal­lenges of mod­ern slav­ery and improve work­ing con­di­tions in glob­al sup­ply chains. He con­sults glob­al­ly with com­pa­nies and gov­ern­ments on mod­ern slav­ery and eth­i­cal sup­ply chains. He has 18 years’ expe­ri­ence and his research has helped to inform devel­op­ment of mod­ern slav­ery leg­is­la­tion in the UK, Aus­tralia and Canada.

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