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Kevin Hyland

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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.

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