Kevin Bales Biography

Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery and Research Director of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham UK. In early 2016 while working at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation which won the Queen's Anniversary Prize. He was also a Co-Founder of Free the Slaves in Washington DC the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International the world’s oldest human rights group founded in 1787.
Going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders Kevin Bales exposed how modern slavery penetrates the global economy in his Pulitzer-nominated book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. The film based on this book Slavery: A Global Investigation which he co-wrote for HBO and Channel 4 won a Peabody Award and two Emmys. His book also inspired a project undertaken by seven Magnum photographers which he helped to design and write entitled Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery which was mounted as a touring exhibition and published as a book by Hayward. Bales was named as the originator of one of “100 World-Changing Discoveries” by the Association of British Universities and as a “visionary who is changing your world” by Utne Reader.

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