Alexander Trautrims
Alexander Trautrims is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Associate Director at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab, the world’s largest research centre on modern slavery. He has many years of experience in leading research and intervention projects on modern slavery in supply chains of the private and public sector, including risk analyses of procurement portfolios and supply chains. His 2015 journal article "Modern slavery challenges to supply chain management" was the world's first article about modern slavery in an academic supply chain management journal.
He served as a technical expert on the Council of Europe’s Drafting Committee on Trafficking for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation, as a Senior Adviser on Human Trafficking in Supply Chains to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and he is currently convening the ISO working group developing ISO37200 Managing the risk of modern slavery - Guidelines for the prevention, identification and mitigation of human trafficking and forced labour.