Alexis A. Aronowitz

Alexis grew up in New Orleans, studied in Albany, New York and moved to Germany in 1988, and the Netherlands in 1994. From December 1999 through March 2002, she conducted and coordinated research on human trafficking at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute in Italy. Upon returning to the Netherlands, she continued to serve as a consultant on projects on human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

She currently teaches at University College Utrecht and Leiden University College, The Hague, and continues to work as an independent consultant. Alexis has contributed to projects on human trafficking for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, the International Organization for Migration, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (University of Tilburg), Human Rights First, Management Systems International and Winrock International.

Alexis has served as a visiting professor teaching a course on human trafficking at universities in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands. She has been invited to speak on human trafficking at the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Vatican and the European Parliament, and has published extensively on the topic of human trafficking. Her book, "Human Trafficking, Human Misery: The Global Trade in Human Beings", was published by Praeger in 2009. "Human Trafficking: A Reference Handbook" is her second book.