E. Benjamin Skinner is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a writer engaged in the study of the U.S. and global political economies, with a focus on the developing world and particularly modern slavery. He was named one of National Geographic’s “Adventurers of the Year 2008.” He is the author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press; 2008), and a contributor to Crimes of War 2.0: What the Public Should Know (W.W. Norton & Company; 2007). He has 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, Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and others. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

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