Tuesday, March 8, 2021 6 PM.
Mark B. Taylor is an international expert on human trafficking issues in Asia and the world, with over 22 years of experience working on the issue in a variety of roles including diplomacy, program design and management, research, and technical advice. As part of his 27 years in the U.S. Department of State, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, where he helped start the first U.S. anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) projects in South Asia.
He went on to an assignment in Nigeria, where he did similar work – starting a large anti-crime assistance program that included addressing human trafficking. Subsequently and for ten years, Mark led the Reporting and Political Affairs Section of the State Department’s Trafficking in Persons office, coordinating the production of 10 annual Trafficking in Persons Reports and managing diplomatic engagement efforts on human trafficking issues around the world.
In 2013, he moved to Thailand to become the Team Leader of a $50 million Australian government-funded program to fight human trafficking in the ASEAN regional – the Australia-Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Most recently, he served as the senior technical adviser to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, assisting this newly establish fund in designing and managing strategies and projects in the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh and India. Mark lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand and is an independent consultant to anti-trafficking donors and programs.