Anna Fraser is a senior public affairs specialist with the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, where, for more than five years, she has worked on issues concerning global supply chains and human trafficking. She serves as co-chair of the U.S. Government’s Senior Policy Operating Group’s Committee on Procurement and Supply Chains. Prior to joining the State Department, she served on the staff of Congressman Ben Chandler of Kentucky.

Mariam Bhacker is a senior project manager at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Bhacker leads the Resource Centre’s work on strengthening corporate respect for migrant workers’ rights in the construction and hospitality sectors in the Arabian Gulf, liaising closely with civil society, international institutions, and major companies on issues related to worker welfare, responsible recruitment, and forced labor in supply chains.

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Philip Vaughn manages Fluor’s international government relations program. He joined Fluor in 1992. Previously, Vaughn served as director of sales for the Middle East and North Africa region and was based in London and Dubai. He served in Singapore, where he organized and managed the Pacific Business Forum, the first APEC Business Advisory Council, which was co-chaired by Fluor. Vaughn serves on the board of The Washington Chorus—and chairs its Finance Committee—and the board of the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He also serves on the boards of numerous professional organizations, including as finance committee chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council and the executive committee of the National Center for APEC.

Peter leads BSR’s consulting and collaborative initiative efforts on human rights, including BSR’s cross-industry Human Rights Working Group. He has supported companies through a range of human rights consulting projects, with expertise in the information and communications technology, extractives, food and agriculture, and financial services industries.

Peter’s engagements include conducting human rights impact assessments, developing human rights policies and strategies, and implementing field-level projects involving internal capacity-building, stakeholder and rights-holder engagement, and internal human rights management system development.

Prior to joining BSR, Peter was an attorney at an international law firm based in the United States. He spent significant time in China working as a journalist with the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a freelance strategy consultant in Shanghai.

Peter holds a J.D. from the University of Washington and a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College, and speaks Mandarin Chinese and English.