Davina P. Durgana, PhD is an award-winning international human rights statistician and professor with almost 15 years of experience developing leading global models to assess risk to modern slavery. Dr. Durgana is Senior Multilateral Engagement Advisor of the Minderoo Foundation and leads Americas Policy and Quantitative Research as a Report Co-Author of the Global Slavery Index of Walk Free. Minderoo Foundation is one of the largest philanthropies in Asia-Pacific with over $2 billion AUD in funding across an array of issues from eliminating plastic waste in the oceans to ending modern slavery. She is fluent in French, Spanish, and English.

Dr. Durgana is an AAAS Ambassador, Forbes Under 30 Alumni board member, and serves on the Board of Directors of Free the Slaves. She is an American Statistical Association Statistical Advocate of the Year, and Chair of Statistics without Borders, and she has been widely recognised for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and human trafficking. Dr. Durgana collaborated on two episodes of Emmy-nominated series Mission Unstoppable and will be featured in upcoming book “Wonder Women of Science: Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World” by Candlewick Publishers to help encourage women and girls to see the ways STEM can be used in everyday life and exciting fields.

Dr. Durgana has over 28 publications and she is a prolific and effective public speaker. She has given over 100 invited talks, including over 30 keynote addresses. Dr. Durgana is a Royal Chartered and Professionally Accredited Statistician. Since 2013, she has also served as a Professor of Research Methods, Irregular Warfare, International Development, Global Public Health, and Inclusive and Human Security at leading universities.

Marcia is currently the Executive Director of Fundación Libera in Chile.  Lawyer graduated in Brazil and Chile, with a Master’s degree in Sociology from UFMG/Brazil.  She has practical and academic experience in the defence of human rights and the environment in the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Brazilian Courts. She has also worked assisting communities affected by large hydroelectric projects with GESTA and the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

University professor of labor and social security law at the University of Valencia. With two doctorates in Law from the University of Paris X-Nanterre and from the Universitat de València, with an extraordinary doctorate award, a master’s degree in European Union, a postgraduate degree in International Cooperation and Development and two bachelor’s degrees in Law and in Political Science and Administration.

She is currently Counselor for Labor, Social Security and Migration at the Spanish Embassy in Ecuador. Between 2020 and 2021 she was General Director of Institutional Coordination of the Second Vice-Presidency and Regional Ministry of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana.

She is a guest lecturer in a large number of postgraduate programs in Latin America, Spain, France and Italy and has been a guest researcher at numerous prestigious Spanish and foreign universities. She coordinates the Working Group of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences called “What work for what future” and participates in various national and international research projects.

Her main line of research focuses on the feminist analysis of labor law. Another of her specific lines of study is the relationship between Due Diligence mechanisms in sustainability and their impact on labor rights and in particular on the phenomena of modern slavery and the analysis of forced labor from a gender perspective.

Her academic career includes an extensive body of work consisting of books and articles in publishers and indexed journals, the contents of which can be consulted in detail at https://webgrec.uv.es/webpages/personal/cat/I6107.html.

A good part of her publications can be found at: https://uv.academia.edu/Adoraci%C3%B3nGuam%C3%A1n

 Fernanda Hopenhaym Cabrera is a specialist in business and human rights issues. She has worked on human rights, economic justice, and gender justice issues for 25 years, focusing on corporate and financial institution accountability for the past 15 years. Since 2021, she has been an independent expert member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights. In addition, she is co-executive director of the organization PODER and advisor to the organizations EarthRights International, All Out, SOMO and the foundation for the International Business and Human Rights Award. 

JAVIER MUJICA PETIT is a Peruvian lawyer with a master’s degree in human rights from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and two master’s degrees in the same subject from the University of Castilla La Mancha in Spain. He is now a member of the Center for Public Policy and Human Rights – Peru EQUIDAD, of which he has been President twice. He has led on several occasions international fact-finding missions of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), which he has represented in various bodies of the Organization of American States (OAS). In recognition of his work, he was twice appointed General Coordinator of the process of formulating Peru’s first and second National Human Rights Plans. 

He has acted in Peru as a member of the Advisory Council of the Office of the Comptroller General and as a senior advisor to the 4th Vice Presidency of the Congress of the Republic, being a frequent litigator in the national and inter-American human rights system. A frequent speaker, locally and internationally, at competitions, forums, and seminars on the subjects of his competence, he has also worked as a consultant, both in the parliamentary field and in that of international development cooperation agencies and the United Nations system such as the ILO, UNIFEM and UNDP.  

 He has published a significant number of articles, essays, and books on subjects related to Labour and Social Security law, International Human Rights Law, the rights of women, migrants, and persons with disabilities, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the links between business and human rights.  

Cinthia Belbussi is Consultant for the International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights CIPDH-UNESCO. Master in Gender, Society and Public Policy (FLACSO); lawyer, specialized in International Public Law (UBA). She was an international consultant for the European Union for the implementation of the Programme to Strengthen the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights in Honduras. She coordinated the Regional Programme “Initiative against Trafficking in Persons” of the NGO Global Rights with an impact in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. She directed the Rescue and Accompaniment Programme for Persons Victims of Human Trafficking in the province of Buenos Aires. She developed and coordinated the first state shelter for trafficked women and children (GCABA). She has been an advisor to various national and international anti-trafficking organizations.

Livia Wagner manages the Trafficking in Persons team and coordinates the Network of Experts and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.  

Livia’s work primarily encompasses the issue of human trafficking for the purpose of labor and sexual exploitation, specializing in responsible supply chain management. He has thoroughly investigated natural resource trafficking, such as illegal gold mining and illegal logging, and related forms of organized crime, with a special focus on Latin America. She also coordinates the Coalition of Responsible and Ethical Business Initiative Against Trafficking (RESPECT), as well as GI-TOC’s research direction for the Anti-Trafficking Technology Initiative. 

Prior to joining GI-TOC, she worked for several years as an international consultant and before that as the Private Sector Focal Point for the United Nations Global Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons (UN). GIFT) and the non-governmental organization ECPAT on trafficking in children for sexual exploitation. She also worked as a development officer for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the island of Mauritius. 

Quinn Kepes has worked at Verité for more than 17 years providing companies, governments, investors, intergovernmental organizations, workers, and civil society with the knowledge and tools they need to eliminate human and labor rights abuses by global supply chains. He oversees Verité’s programming and research on raw materials in the Americas. He is also the co-author of reports for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Human Trafficking and Contemporary Forms of Slavery, and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. Kepes has conducted and directed field investigations on human trafficking and other labor and human rights risks in illegal gold mining and agriculture (coffee, palm oil, sugar, livestock, corn products, peanuts, nuts). Brazil), seafood (shrimp, tuna, illegal fishing), and the clothing sector. Quinn Kepes has investigated links between organized crime and human rights abuses for Verité and other organizations.

Specialist on Indigenous Peoples (ILO) and ILO focal point for Indigenous Peoples in the Latin American region, he is currently based in Bolivia, where he coordinates the ILO Office in Bolivia, previously working at the ILO Office in Guatemala and the ILO Office in Peru. He is a lawyer by profession from the Universidad San Martin de Porres (Peru) with an International Master’s Degree in Conflicts and Development from the Universitat Jaume I, (Spain). He has more than 23 years of national and international experience in International Law and Indigenous Peoples‘ Law, held management positions in the public administration in Peru, has been a consultant to International Organizations and a visiting professor of the Legal Anthropology Program at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile. He has also been a professor of indigenous peoples‘ law courses at universities in Peru.  

Brook’s impact extends to digital education platforms addressing sexual exploitation. She launched Eval, a mental healthcare tech, chosen by Techstars Founders Catalyst. A Master’s Series alumnus, she holds a US Patent, creating innovative software in mental healthcare, AI, and machine learning.

An accomplished author, Brook’s works include “Living Inside The Rainbow” and “S+CxM=O.” Recent releases, “Shame Undone” and “Fine Heart Table Book,” showcased at special events in Monaco, reflect her commitment.

With a Ph.D. in Pastoral Clinical Counseling, Brook is a global speaker recognized by the United Nations and Google Next-Gen Fellow. Advocate of the Year in Florida, she collaborates with entities like the FBI, DOJ, and Harvard. An inspiration to all genders, Brook, with her unwavering stance, resides in South Florida, amplifying voices for a better world.

Davina P. Durgana, PhD is an award-winning international human rights statistician and professor with almost 15 years of experience developing leading global models to assess risk to modern slavery. Dr. Durgana is Senior Multilateral Engagement Advisor of the Minderoo Foundation and leads Americas Policy and Quantitative Research as a Report Co-Author of the Global Slavery Index of Walk Free. Minderoo Foundation is one of the largest philanthropies in Asia-Pacific with over $2 billion AUD in funding across an array of issues from eliminating plastic waste in the oceans to ending modern slavery. She is fluent in French, Spanish, and English.

Dr. Durgana is an AAAS Ambassador, Forbes Under 30 Alumni board member, and serves on the Board of Directors of Free the Slaves. She is an American Statistical Association Statistical Advocate of the Year, and Chair of Statistics without Borders, and she has been widely recognised for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and human trafficking. Dr. Durgana collaborated on two episodes of Emmy-nominated series Mission Unstoppable and will be featured in upcoming book “Wonder Women of Science: Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World” by Candlewick Publishers to help encourage women and girls to see the ways STEM can be used in everyday life and exciting fields.

Dr. Durgana has over 28 publications and she is a prolific and effective public speaker. She has given over 100 invited talks, including over 30 keynote addresses. Dr. Durgana is a Royal Chartered and Professionally Accredited Statistician. Since 2013, she has also served as a Professor of Research Methods, Irregular Warfare, International Development, Global Public Health, and Inclusive and Human Security at leading universities.

Laura is an advisor in the area of “Studies and Research” at the International Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights (CIPDH-UNESCO). She was a consultant in legal and legislative matters to Deputy Gustavo Vera in the Legislature of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, who later assumed the position of Director of the “Executive Committee against Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons and for the Protection and Assistance to Victims” under the Executive Branch of the Argentine Republic. She was an advisor to the Constitutional Law and Labor Law Commissions of the above-mentioned Deputy  . She provided legal advice and accompanied in the judicial processes of victims rescued from the crime of Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor. She provided legal assistance to people who denounced the crime of Trafficking in Persons as well as to victims of it, at the “Fundación Alameda”, an international non-governmental organization based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dedicated to the fight and eradication of Trafficking in Persons. It trained employees of the “United Union of Technical Educators of the Argentine Republic” (SUETRA) on Labor Trafficking.  She shared a panel of knowledge and experiences with Evelina Cabrera, Goodwill Ambassador for “Gender Equity” of the Organization of American States (OAS), within the framework of the III World Forum on Human Rights that took place in Buenos Aires in March 2023. 

Felipe Henríquez has been an official of the Undersecretariat of International Economic Relations (SUBREI) since 2011. He currently serves as Chile’s National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises and head of the Responsible Business Conduct (CER) Division. In addition, he has extensive experience as a trade diplomat. Between 2016 and 2021, he was Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Chile to the World Trade Organization (WTO). He holds an Executive Master’s Degree in Environmental Governance and Policy Development from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) and is a lawyer from the University of Concepción (Chile).

Marcel Gomes is a journalist, he obtained a master’s degree in political science from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a doctorate in Energy Systems Planning from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).

Yesenia is a Human Rights Activist, she collaborates with Survivor Alliance and the NGO Fundación Libera. She is a Venezuelan resident in Chile since 2018 where she was a victim of forced labor in the agricultural sector. She is a cook, pastry chef, ceramic forger and seasonal farmer. She is also a mother of two children.

Expert in corporate governance, compliance and integrity and anti-corruption systems, as well as ESG factors. She has solid knowledge and management of international and local standards on prevention and combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Consultant specialized in corporate governance, ethics and integrity, compliance, and collaborative solutions for sustainable economic development. Executive Director of the Promote Women Chile Program whose purpose is to increase the presence of women in the management positions of companies, thus promoting shared and integrative leadership (Public-private project of the CPC, Icare and the Ministries of Women and Economy). She is a partner at KPMG Chile where she led the Forensic and Sustainability Services areas, covering cross-cutting issues of Corporate Governance, Integrity and Ethics, free competition, reputational risks, among others. She directed the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF), a decentralized public institution, responsible for preventing and impeding the use of the financial and non-financial system in Chile to launder money and/or finance terrorism. She advised the Ministry of Finance between 2004 and 2009, where she led important negotiations with different unions and social and business organizations.

Carolina Rudnick is a lawyer from Universidad de Concepción, and a Master in Criminal Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow from the American University, specializing in human trafficking, corruption and international human rights law. Carolina is a member of the Capra Course Network, she has taken postgraduate courses in constitutional law and fundamental rights at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, studies in moral philosophy at the Universidad de Concepción and studies in philosophy of science at the IFICC. She served as a lawyer in the Department of Organized Crime of the Ministry of Interior and Public Security of Chile, from where she coordinated the Intersectoral Roundtable on Trafficking in Persons and its national action plan 2013-2014. During 2016-2018 she was in charge of International Affairs of the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF), from where she led the construction of the Second National Strategy against money laundering and terrorist financing 2018-2020. She served as head of international relations of the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity of Chile 2022.She co-founded and chaired Fundación Libera, a non-profit organization against human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery. She has been a lecturer at several Chilean universities, a consultant for the Inter-American Commission of Women and Eurosocial+, and a researcher at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

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Labor Inspector since 2010, she acts in the General Coordination of the Fight against Slavery-Analogous Work and Human Trafficking of the Brazilian Ministry of Labor. Graduated in Law, she is also a specialist in Law and Labor Process.