Board of Directors

Dr. Jean Baderschneider currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors and previously served as the Fund’s inaugural CEO. With 35+ years of experience, Dr. Jean Baderschneider retired from ExxonMobil in 2013 where she was Vice President, Global Procurement. In this role she had global responsibility for procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, warehousing and accounts payables operations…

Ernie Allen is a global expert on the digital economy, the dark side of the internet, public-private partnerships, and child protection including the issues of child abduction, sexual exploitation and human trafficking. He frequently speaks to global audiences on these issues and advises governments, law enforcement, technology companies and nonprofit organizations…

Ambassador Richmond has a distinguished career in the global battle for freedom. He co-founded the Human Trafficking Institute that exists to decimate modern slavery at its source by empowering police and prosecutors to use victim-centered and trauma-informed methods to hold traffickers accountable and ensure survivors are treated with respect and care…

Friedman co-founded ASSET, a non-profit addressing issues of human trafficking in global supply chains, where she helped author the California Transparency in Supply Chains law, which served as a model for international legislation. Her expertise in the anti-slavery field led Friedman to be recruited by the State Department at the beginning of the Obama Administration, where she served as Deputy Director in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons…

Born in Crosby, Liverpool, on 8 November 1945, Vincent Nichols studied for the priesthood at the Venerable English College in Rome from 1963 to 1970, gaining licences in philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University. He was ordained priest in Rome on 21 December 1969 for the Archdiocese of Liverpool…

Sir Rob Wainwright is a senior partner at Deloitte, working within the firm’s global cyber security and financial crime practice. He previously served as Executive Director of Europol, the European Union law enforcement agency, for almost a decade. ere he helped established the European Counter Terrorism Centre…