Mike Dottridge has worked in the human rights field for 40 years. He worked for two human rights non-governmental organisations for 25 years, from 1977 until 2002 (Amnesty International and Anti-Slavery International, where he was director). His work for Amnesty concerned sub-Saharan Africa. Since 1995 he has focused on the rights of adults and children who experience economic or sexual exploitation.

Maria Grazia Giammarinaro is the current UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. She has been a judge since 1991. She served as a pre-trial judge at the Criminal Court of Rome, and currently serves as a judge in the Civil Court of Rome. From March 2010 to February 2014 she was the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings.

Katharine Bryant is a modern slavery expert with ten years’experience in counter trafficking and anti-slavery programming and research. Katharine currently works as Research Manager at the Walk Free Foundation and is one of the authors of the Global Slavery Index.

Michaëlle De Cock (Ph.D, University of Paris VI) has been a leading researcher for the ILO on methodologies to survey and estimate forced labour and trafficking of adults and children for the last 15 years. She has been actively involved in key global estimates published by the ILO: the first estimate of the worst forms of child labour in 2002 (which included trafficking and forced labour) and the two global estimates of forced labour in 2005 and 2012, resulting from a capture recapture of reported cases of forced labour.

Corallina holds a LLM summa cum laude (Roma3) and a M.A. in Human Rights (University College London). She is Program Coordinator at the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties & Rights (Cild) – where she works mostly on immigration and asylum, also through the data-journalism project Open Migration – and Research Assistant at Antigone, as well as member of Antigone’s national Prison Observatory and Fair Trial’s Legal Experts Advisory Panel.

Giorgia Serughetti is a research fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Milan-Bicocca. Her research interests are gender and political theory, with a particular focus on prostitution, migration and human trafficking, gender violence.

Héléna Behr is Senior Protection Associate at the UNHCR Regional Office for Southern Europe, and oversees UNHCR’s participation in the Italian Eligibility and Status Determination procedure. She is also is responsible for activities related to training and capacity building, statelessness and anti-trafficking. Ms Behr has worked with UNHCR since 1994 and in several locations, including the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Turkey.

Salvatore Fachile, lawyer and researcher on judicial issues concerning human trafficking, international protection, unaccompanied migrant minors, immigration law, and anti-discrimination law. He currently runs his law firm in Rome, and is a member of the advisory board of ASGI (Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull’Immigrazione) and a consultant to the Naples-based Social Cooperative Dedalus.

Between 1995 and 2016, Claudio Donadel was the project manager of the interventions on prostitution and human trafficking for the Municipality of Venice. In 2006 and 2007 he was a member of the Inter-ministerial Commission for the implementation of Article 18 of the Immigration Law and, between 2007 and 2013, a member of the Inter-ministerial Commission for the support of victims of trafficking, violence, and exploitation, both sitting at the Italian Department for Equal Opportunities.

Since 2003 he works as researcher and humanitarian worker for Doctors Without Borders in Italy and abroad. He currently works in the Advocacy Unit of Doctors Without Borders Italy on migration related-issues. Author of Distances. Stories of exile from South Africa of yesterday and today (2014) and Disarmo (2016).