Meeting

Virtual Roundtable: Modern Slavery and COVID-19

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Chiapas General Attorney's Office/REUTERS

Speakers

Jean Baderschneider

Chief Executive Officer, Global Fund to End Slavery

Rob Wainwright

Partner, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Presider

Jamille Bigio

Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable Series on Human Trafficking and Women and Foreign Policy Program

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