His research has focused on operation research, surveys, population size estimates of trafficked victims, among children, female sex workers, trafficking victims, migrant workers, men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, at-risk youth and getting communities to develop edutainment materials related to health.

He has worked on research with UN-ACT and its predecessor, the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, originally in LAO PDR and later from Thailand. Prior to that, he worked with an international foundation on labour issues in Vietnam.

He is now a full time lecturer at the IHRPS where he manages courses, carries out research and teaches under the Institute’s various academic programmes.

His research areas of particular interest include issues around child rights, ethical approaches to researching vulnerable groups, and human trafficking and migration. Much of this work has been in South and East Asia, where Mark has lived for over 20 years where he worked with Concern Worldwide, PACT Inc. and Save the Children UK. As Deputy Director of ECPAT International (2001-2011), Mark Capaldi supported a wide range of programming in all regions of the world, including areas such as: combating child sex tourism; legal reform; care and protection; preventing exploitation of children through the internet and information technology; anti-trafficking initiatives; and the promotion of child and youth participation. From June 2011 to April 2018, Mark Capaldi took on the role of ECPAT’s Head of Research and Policy.

Borislav Gerasimov holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Sofia and has previously worked for our Bulgarian member Animus Association (2001-2009) and our European member La Strada International (2009-2016).

Ussarin worked for 7 years as the International Affairs Specialist at the State Enterprises Workers' Relations Confederation (SERC), a national trade union center affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). She has also been working closely with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) to promote freedom of association and rights to collective bargaining for workers in the aviation sector.

he has also worked closely with Swedish trade union to promote rights to organize trade unions for the Swedish MNCs in Thailand. When she worked with SERC she was involved in several projects for more rights to organize unions for migrant workers in all sectors (fishing, seafood processing industry, and construction, among others) in Thailand, even though the Thai Labor Relations Act (1975) does not allow migrant workers to organize.

In this role, she works on legal and policy development, assisting with capacity building activities, providing support in drafting of legislation to protect migrants and managing activities for providing direct support to migrant workers in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Prior to this role, Anna worked more broadly on issues of human trafficking, labour migration, child protection and women’s rights in South East Asia.

She was based in Cambodia for over five years, working with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs as a technical assistant to the Minister, The Asia Foundation as the Prosecution Project Officer for the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Project and with UNICEF and ILO as a consultant on child protection and legislative analysis.