Human Trafficking – Mar. 23, 2021

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You have a role to play in the prevention of human trafficking as fraud investigators. Today there is an estimated $150 billion criminal enterprise that denies freedom to 24.9 million people worldwide through forced labor and sex trafficking.

Tune in for this webinar to learn more about:

• How you can join the anti-trafficking community and use your vocation to fight human trafficking crime
• What human trafficking looks like internationally and domestically
• The gaps and challenges in tackling human trafficking from the financial perspective
• Where the next frontier of anti-trafficking work to prevent this crime is going

The KNOBLE:

The Knoble is a global non-profit network of experts preventing financial crime that harms vulnerable people. Enabled by network collaboration,  integrated data and technology, proven practices, and repeatable execution. The Knoble Network delivers systemic reduction in human crime through prevention, money flow disruption, and increased prosecution and risk. Please check out the Knoble’s website before the event: https://www.theknoble.com/!

SPEAKERS:

Ian Mitchell and Heather Fischer; The Knoble

Ian Mitchell – Founder and Board Chair

Global Fraud Management Executive with experience establishing fraud programs and leading fraud across 22+ countries within financial services, online retail and insurance. Deeply passionate about uniting the Financial Crime community to protect and defend the vulnerable.

Heather C. Fischer – Special Liaison; Global Strategy, Anti-Human Trafficking & Exploitation

Heather currently serves as a senior advisor for human trafficking in the Philanthropy sector.

Most recently, Fischer served as the first-ever White House Czar and special advisor for human trafficking. During her detail assignment from the US Department of Justice to the White House, she served as the human trafficking coordinator for the Executive Office of the President components, the federal interagency, and the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to prevent and address all forms of human trafficking.

Prior to her role at the White House, Fischer served as special advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large in the Office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP) at the US Department of State. In this capacity, she oversaw the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking.

Before joining the US State Department, Fischer served as a subject matter expert on human trafficking at the McCain Institute for International Leadership. While at the McCain Institute, she implemented a national prevention action plan in partnership with key federal, state, and non-profit stakeholders. Additionally, Fischer instituted a public-private partnership with the US Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families and co-authored a nationwide Justice Sector report with community-based solutions to address human trafficking in the United States.

Before joining the McCain Institute, Fischer was the mobilization and partnership strategist at Love146, where she managed government, major corporation, and community partnerships to combat child trafficking and exploitation globally.

Fischer previously served on the US Department of Homeland Security-led Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, US Department of Homeland Security Forced Labor Ad Hoc Work Group, the Washington, DC, New York Capital Region and Southern Tier Anti-Trafficking task forces, Connecticut Bar Association Special Committee on Sex Trafficking of Children, Department of Justice Civil Rights Community Working Group, and Twitter Trust & Safety Council.