Dr. Assis is a research fellow at Stanford’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, the Chief Data Research & Development Officer at the Federal Labor Prosecution Office in Brazil, a Professor at the National School of Public Prosecutors in Brasilia, and a founding member of the Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab (HTDL). Dr. Assis has played a frontline role in dozens of labor inspection task forces, and prosecuted or brought settlements in hundreds of cases against traffickers. He oversees the SmartLab Initiative, a unique project that utilizes open-source administrative data to provide stakeholders with actionable insights to improve policy making at the national, regional, and local levels. Dr. Assis is also a data scientist and the architect behind Brazil’s Digital Observatory of Slave Labor and Human Trafficking. In cooperation with the International Labour Organization, he leads the Monitora 8.7 platform (monitora87.org) monitoring action plans for the eradication of human trafficking and child labor, with projects in Brazil and in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
