Modern Slavery – national perspectives

Our external speakers:

Dr Caroline Emberson is a Nottingham Research Fellow within the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab and Nottingham University Business School. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the charitable foundation Trust for London and the charity Anti-Slavery International and her current research focuses upon modern slavery risk in the home care sector. She has contributed to national and international public consultations by the Joint Committee on Human Rights; the Labour Market Inspectorate; the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and the Home Affairs Select Committee, the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms and the Canadian Government. She has spoken about her work in English Adult Social Care at the House of Lords and designed and delivered national and regional workshops on the modern slavery risks in adult social care for local government and the NHS. 

Professor Alexander Trautrims is Professor of Supply Chain Management and an Associate Director of the Rights Lab, leading the Rights Lab’s Business and Economies Programme. In 2015, he published the world’s first article about modern slavery in an academic supply chain management journal. His research, knowledge exchange, and intervention projects on modern slavery have been funded by the British Academy, FCDO, ESRC, US State Department, and Public Works Canada. He co-chaired the British Standards Committee on Organisational Responses to Modern Slavery (BS25700), the world’s first national standard on organisational responses to modern slavery, served as a technical expert on the Council of Europe’s Drafting Committee on Trafficking for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation and was a senior advisor to the OSCE and multiple participating states on anti-trafficking procurement processes and guidelines. He works closely with business practitioners on impact-oriented research and speaks regularly at policy and practitioner events. 

Ian Waterfield is the Head of Enforcement for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, a UK government agency addressing modern slavery, human trafficking and exploitation of workers, working closely with public/private sectors, cross governments and national and international law enforcement agencies. Prior to this Ian enjoyed a 32 year career in policing as a Chief Officer, Head of Crime, Senior Investigating Officer, and former head of Serious and Organised Crime, leading complex and multi-agency major organised crime investigations.   He was part of the team which recovered Nottinghamshire Police from special measures and led the performance and change programme that saw the force deliver the largest crime reductions nationally for the three years of his tenure and crime at its lowest levels for 35 years. He is a member of the National Police Chiefs Council Witness Protection Project which has delivered a revised and sustainable approach to protecting those persons who require protecting from those they give evidence in court against. Until recently Ian was also a member of the NPCC Homicide Working Group identifying and recommending good practice for dealing with murder and other major incidents.