Matt Friedman

Matt Friedman

Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 27 years of experience as an activist, programme designer, evaluator, and manager.  He is chief executive officer and co-founder of The Mekong Club, an organisation of Hong Kong-based private sector business people who have joined forces to fight human trafficking in Asia. From 2006 to 2012, Matt was the regional project manager of the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking. Prior to this (1991-2006), he worked for the United States Agency for International Development in Thailand, Bangladesh and Nepal. He is the author of Where Were You? A Profile of Modern Slavery.

Communication and education are key to motivating the corporate world to take a stand

In whatever form it takes, the scourge of slavery remains tangled in the supply chains of too many industries.

Matt Friedman of the nongovernmental organisation The Mekong Club is on...