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E. Benjamin Skinner (born May 4, 1976) is a writer on modern-day slavery[1] and Principal and Founder of Transparentem.[2]

Career

Skinner began his career at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, where he focused on U.S. foreign policy.[3][failed verification] While at the Council in August 2001, he met veteran diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke.[4] Skinner soon became "one of Holbrooke’s youngest protégés,"[5] and his Special Assistant for the next three years. Subsequently, he also worked for journalist David Halberstam[6] and Gen. Stanley McChrystal (U.S. Army, Ret.).[7] In 2003, while on assignment in Sudan for Newsweek International, Skinner met his first survivor of slavery.[8]

As a writer, Skinner has infiltrated trafficking networks and slave quarries, urban child markets and illegal brothels, going undercover when necessary.[9] His work has appeared in Time, Bloomberg Businessweek, Travel + Leisure, the Los Angeles Times, TheMiami Herald, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, among others.[10][failed verification]

The New York Times and the Boston Globe called Skinner's first book, A Crime So Monstrous, "devastating."[11] The book was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction,[12] as well as a citation from the Overseas Press Club in its book category for 2008.[citation needed] He was also named one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year 2008.[citation needed]The book was also published in multiple countries including the Czech Republic (Nakladatelství XYZ), Germany (Lübbe), Korea (NanJang), Italy (Einaudi), The Netherlands (Cossee), Poland (Znak), and the United Kingdom (Random House UK).[13] Chapters from it have been adapted for an Emmy Award-winning episode of ABC's Nightline as well as NBC’s Law & Order.[13]

Starting in 2009, Skinner was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University,[10][failed verification] where he focused on tracing slavery in corporate supply chains from theaters like the New Zealand fishing industry[14] and Indonesian palm oil plantations[15] to U.S. and Chinese consumer markets. Previously, he was the first fellow for human trafficking at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.[9] In 2011, the World Economic Forum named Skinner one of its Young Global Leaders,[10][failed verification] and he formerly served on the Forum's Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade.[13] Skinner is a former Senior Vice President at Tau Investment Management. [2]

Personal

Skinner was raised in Wisconsin and northern Nigeria where his father served as a British colonial administrator.[9] Skinner comes from a long line of abolitionists. His great-great-grandfather, Robert Pratt, served with the 1st Connecticut Artillery at the Siege of Petersburg, which led to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.[12] Skinner received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University.[10][failed verification] He currently lives in Manhattan, NY.[16]

Bibliography

  • Crimes of War 2.0: What The Public Should Know (Revised and Expanded) (Essay by Skinner, Editors Anthony Dworkin, Roy Gutman and David Rieff) (W.W. Norton & Company, 2007) ISBN 0393328465
  • A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-7432-9008-1
  • The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (Essay by Skinner, Editors Derek Chollet and Samantha Power) (PublicAffairs, 2011) ISBN 1610390784

References

  1. ^ http://www.streetnewsservice.org/news/2012/december/feed-360/mariane-pearl-%E2%80%98i-was-not-born-the-day-daniel-died%E2%80%99.aspx
  2. ^ a b http://www.transparentem.com
  3. ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-skinner
  4. ^ The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World (Essay by Skinner, Editors Derek Chollet and Samantha Power)(PublicAffairs, 2011) ISBN 1610390784
  5. ^ http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137207/derek-cholletsamantha-power/the-unquiet-american-richard-holbrooke-in-the-world
  6. ^ Halberstam, David The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (Hyperion, 2008) ISBN 0786888628
  7. ^ McChrystal, Stanley My Share of the Task: A Memoir (Portfolio, 2013) ISBN 1591844754
  8. ^ http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2008/12/best-of/benjamin-skinner-text
  9. ^ a b c http://web.archive.org/web/20140808101316/http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/isht/aboutus_past.php. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 7, 2013. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ a b c d http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/e-benjamin-skinner
  11. ^ http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/02/19/shining_a_light_on_todays_slaves/
  12. ^ a b http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2009-nonfiction_winner.htm
  13. ^ a b c http://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/about/staff/skinner.html
  14. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-23/the-fishing-industrys-cruelest-catch
  15. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-18/indonesias-palm-oil-industry-rife-with-human-rights-abuses
  16. ^ http://authors.simonandschuster.com/E-Benjamin-Skinner/35779030

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