Klara SKRIVANKOVA  is a recognised expert on human trafficking and forced labour in the UK and internationally. She has been working in the field since 2000, starting as a programme manager in La Strada Czech Republic. In 2005 she joined Anti-Slavery International where she leads its Europe Programme, managing research andadvocacy  to eliminate all forms of modern slavery, including in supply-chains,in the UK and Europe. She frequently provides expert witness statements in courts in the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong in modern slavery cases and in 2007 co-founded the UK Trafficking Law and Policy Forum, an educational think-tank on human trafficking and related issues. Since 2010, has  acted as a Programme Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She was also a specialist contributor of Human Trafficking Handbook: Recognising Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery in the UK, Chandran P.ed, Lexis Nexis, 2011, with chapters on forced labour and on compensation for victims of modern day slavery and a co-editor of Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants: Insecure Work in a Globalised Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Ms Skrivankova has held numerous expert appointments internationally. She has been an expert on human trafficking with the Council of Europe since 2005 and a member of the EU Experts Group on Trafficking in Human Beings from2008 until 2015,, advising the EuropeaCommission. Between 2010 and2013 she served on the board of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking and 2009-2013 on the board of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.