Siddharth Kara
He is a British Academy Global Professor (2020-2024) based at Nottingham University, an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kara has authored three books on modern slavery: "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" (2009); "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia" (2012); and "Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective" (2017). Kara adapted his first book into a Hollywood film, "Trafficked." Across twenty-one years of field research, Kara has traveled to more than fifty countries to document the cases of several thousand slaves and child laborers. Kara advises several UN agencies and numerous governments on anti-slavery policy and law. Kara’s current research efforts are focused on conditions in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is also the topic of his forthcoming book, "Cobalt Red."