Siddharth Kara

Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor, an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kara has authored three books on modern slavery and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Kara's first book was adapted into a Hollywood film, Trafficked. Kara’s fourth book, "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives," explores the conditions of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A feature film inspired by Cobalt Red is currently in pre-production. He divides his time between the United Kingdom and Los Angeles.