Awards & Honors
Senior Fellow
E. Benjamin Skinner
- Winner of the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for non-fiction
- Citation award by the Overseas Press Club in its book category for "A Crime So Monstrous"
- Named one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year 2008
New from Senior Fellow
E. Benjamin Skinner:
Pakistan's forgotten plight: Modern-day slavery, Oct. 27, 2009, Time.
"Officials at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad say at least three landlords have held as many as 170 bonded farmworkers at gunpoint on their estates in the country's southeast Sindh province since late September."
CNN's Anderson Cooper recently talked with Ben Skinner and former President Clinton about the persistent tragedy of human trafficking and the work underway by today's abolitionists.
Read "The Fight to End Global Slavery," E. Benjamin Skinner, Summer 2009, World Policy Journal.
E. Benjamin Skinner
BENJAMIN SKINNER, also a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, is a writer studying the U.S. and global political economies, with a current focus on modern-day slavery. He is the first person in recorded history to observe the negotiations for sale of human beings on four continents, and was named one of National Geographic’s “Adventurers of the Year 2008.”
He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade, and previously served as Special Assistant to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and previously as Research Associate for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His articles have appeared in Newsweek International, Travel + Leisure, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and others.
Skinner received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
Books
Skinner's investigations into human trafficking and slavery culminated in "A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery" (Free Press; 2008). "A Crime So Monstrous" is the winner of the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for non-fiction and received a citation from the Overseas Press Club in its book category.