Professor Davina Durgana, award-winning international human rights statistician and professor with almost 15 years of experience developing leading global models to assess risk to modern slavery, gives a talk on their work on modern slavery.
Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery
Abstract: Dr. Durgana will present her insights on the use of statistics in the global modern slavery vulnerability and prevalence field over the past decade. She will present work on the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery with the United Nations, Global Slavery Index, and on application of Multiple Systems Estimation throughout Europe with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. She will also discuss compelling developments within leading national governments on prevalence estimation and how this work engages with the global policy community.
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