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Kevin Hyland, OBE, has focused for 15 years on efforts to end human trafficking, including work with the G20 Interfaith Forum to involve religious communities and civil society on trafficking. During a 30-year policing career, he specialized in investigating serious organized crime and headed London’s internationally recognized Human Trafficking Unit. In 2014 he was appointed the UK’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. An advisor to the Santa Marta Group, Hyland is also the chair of Arise, a global human trafficking organization, and a trustee to both Europe’s largest homeless charity, The Passage, and Rahab, that supports trafficked and exploited women and girls in London.

Tatiana Kotlyarenko is an international expert on gender-based violence and human trafficking. She previously served as the advisor on anti-trafficking issues in the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights at the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe. Kotlyarenko has conducted rapid assessment missions and provided recommendations to countries on how to prevent and address trafficking of Ukrainian women and children. 

David Saperstein was the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom from January 2015 to January 2017. He is currently is an adjunct professor with the Center for Jewish Civilization in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and previously was a senior research fellow of the Religious Freedom Research Project at the Berkley Center. An ordained rabbi, he served for several decades as the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism representing the public policy positions of the Reform Jewish Movement, the largest segment of American Jewry, to the government and leading the movement’s efforts to strengthen social justice programming in synagogues across North America. Over the years, he headed several national religious coalitions, including co-chairing the Coalition to Preserve Religious Liberty, and served on various national boards, among them the NAACP, People for the American Way, and the World Faiths Development Dialogue. In 1999 and 2000, Saperstein served as the first chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He was a crucial part of the faith-based movement that supported passage of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act. A frequent media commentator on religion and public life, Saperstein is also an attorney and taught, for over 30 years, seminars on First Amendment law and Jewish law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Fr. Márcio Toniazzo, C.S., is a priest in the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo (known as the Scalabrinians). Currently, he works with the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), an international network that aims to promote the rights and dignity of migrants, refugees, seafarers, and fishers, in alignment with the Scalabrinians' mission to serve and accompany those far from their homelands.

Yasmin Waljee, OBE, is the international pro bono partner for litigation, arbitration, and employment at Hogan Lovells. She is an international human rights lawyer and has advised on issues relating to right to life, reparations for victims of crimes, trafficking and terrorism, and sexual violence. Waljee has previously served as a member of the advisory boards for the United Kingdom’s Independent Commissioner on Anti-Slavery and is a trustee of the Santa Marta Group.