Laura Lederer

U.S.

Global Fund for Women Founder and Board member

Laura is a passionate advocate for women’s rights and believes deeply in the movement to abolish trafficking.

She founded and directed The Protection Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997 and in 2000, she moved it to Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

She is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, where she has taught for six years, including the first full course on international trafficking in persons offered at a law school.
For five years she served as Senior Advisor on Trafficking in Persons to U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs.

Honored by the Global Fund for Women