Specialist areas of work and services:
- Armed Conflict & Military
- Begging
- Child Marriage
- Construction
- Debt Bondage
- Domestic Servitude
- Fishing Industry
- Forced Criminality
- Forced Labour
- Hotel & Retail
- Manufacturing
- Nail Bars
- Organ Trafficking
- Prostitution & Sex Slavery
- Quarrying/Mining/Oil & Gas Extraction
- Sex Trafficking
- Sports
- Textile Industry
Description:
Director of Operations & Strategy at the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioners Office. UNODC & EU expert in Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking.
Experience, Background and Services:
Ian served in the Metropolitan Police and was a Branch Commander in the National Crime Squad. As a Senior Investigating Officer he led teams of detectives investigating serious and organised crime, nationally and internationally. Ian specialised in covert policing and anti-corruption investigations and engaged regularly with Europol & Interpol and utilised JITS in order to advance operational effectiveness. He has worked alongside most European law enforcement agencies and in the US with the FBI.
Prior to joining the IASC Ian undertook scoping work in Nigeria as a Policing & Criminal Justice Expert looking into the prevelance of Human Trafficking from that country to Europe. He led a team of multi-skilled experts which fed into the UKs understanding & response to the issue.
Ian subsequently worked on projects for the UNODC on MSHT in Saudi Arabia and Oman and worked for the EU on a MSHT project in Moldova. Ian sits on the University of Manchester's Perpetrators of Modern Slavery steering group and on the advisory panel of Tech Tackling Trafficking.
Ian can provide independent expert witness testimony in particular around victims of MSHT and the methodology used to control victims. Ian is an expert in all forms of Human Trafficking & brings not only an investigative understanding of MSHT but an in-depth understanding of the issue from the work he has undertaken for different organisations around the world.
