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Benjamin Thomas Greer Curriculum Vitae BENJAMIN THOMAS GREER CURRICULUM VITAE As a Specializing California Deputy Attorney General, I built a unique legal expertise in human trafficking. My team members and I have successfully conducted and executed the comprehensive report for the California Attorney General entitled, “The State of Human Trafficking in California 2012.” Along with the report, we delivered a comprehensive analysis of California’s anti-trafficking response from the investigation and prosecution phase to its restorative justice network to the Attorney General. I have published numerous American Law Review and International Journal articles (listed below) and have presented these articles in numerous counties. I am a federally recognized training expert by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC - TTAC) Training & Technical Assistance Center and Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA - NTAC) Training and Technical Assistance Center. I have helped California draft and negotiate Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) with the Mexican Government, draft and lobby anti-trafficking legislation (both domestically and internationally) and play a prominent role as Contributing/Advisory Board member on two International Peer Reviewed anti-trafficking Journals. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Emergency Management Coordinator / Instructor II – CalOES CSTI Criminal Justice / Homeland Security/Human Trafficking Division (August 2017 – Current) CSTI is a statewide enterprise with responsibility for supporting training, exercises and education in wide variety of areas including but not limited to; emergency management, public safety, homeland security, hazardous materials, disaster recovery and crisis communications. CSTI’s focus is on facilitating and or providing the best possible solutions in training, exercise, and education with an eye on building capabilities, utilizing all- hazards, total resource approach. I sever as a subject matter expert for the State Threat Assessment Center (STAC) in the fields of domestic and international human trafficking as well as California’s cannabis legal and regulatory framework. Represent OES/CSTI on the California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Human Trafficking course curriculum development working group. Assist CalOES Human Trafficking Grant Division grade, score and evaluate OES human trafficking grant programs. I also serve as the department Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO). Page | 1 Practitioner Associate for the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) (April 2019 – Current) As a Practitioner Associate for CCARHT, I conduct and publish applied research in the advancement of combatting the trafficking in persons. I also assist in the planning and execute of the annual symposium held at University of Cambridge. Director – Policy & Legislation, Global Resource Epicenter Against human Trafficking (GREAT) (January 2016 – Current) GREAT is an international multisector resource and coordination center, established to combat human trafficking. While public awareness of human trafficking grows, groups move to rescue and support survivors, and law enforcement seeks to disrupt human trafficking activities and networks; the emerging question is “who is coordinating all this?” Without the benefit of international coordination, people, agencies, groups and countries continue to work in a vacuum, devoid of the benefits derived from collaboration, or the ability to draw upon the 'lessons learned' and successes of other like-minded groups from around the world - groups that may be potential partners. GREAT seeks to help coordinate these efforts around the globe, and as such, to be a “force multiplier” through the provisioning of access to information, resources and collaboration for those combatting human trafficking “on the front line”. Human Trafficking Investigations & Training Institute (April 2015 – December 2019) HTITI offers instructor-led courses oriented to law enforcement. Our courses are reviewed and certified by the National Emergency Communications Institute (NECI). NECI meet all known public safety training standards including NHTSA and CALEA. HTITI will provide an assessment-based certificate for those students who successfully completed the performance standards for each course. Instructor – Univ. of Calif. Davis Extension – Center for Human Services (April 2018 – June 2019) As an Instructor for UC Davis’s Extension program, I designed and deliver the “Human Trafficking, CSEC and Beyond” course. Course number 174FAM261. Senior Staff Counsel (III), California Department of Consumer Affairs (June 2016 – August 2017) Bureau of Marijuana Control Staff Counsel, California Department of State Hospitals (October 2012 – June 2016) Involuntary Medication& Treatment Hearings Team Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Departmental Review Panel Page | 2 Special Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice (August 2011 - November 2012) Executive Office of the Attorney General Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Workgroup Co-Chair Legal and Legislative Consultant, Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (March 2011 - August 2011) Research Attorney, California District Attorneys Association (January 2010 - November 2010) SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS Security Clearance – [federal government – SECRET level] SELECT ANTI-TRAFFICKING TRAINING NETWORKS HEAL Trafficking/Network – (Health Professional Education Advocacy Linkage) (November - Current) Anti-trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Expert/Consultant in the field of physical and mental health injuries victims derive from trafficking. Office for Victims of Crime (OVC - TTAC) Training & Technical Assistance Center (Oct. 2014 - Current) Anti-trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Expert Consultant. Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA - NTAC) Training and Technical Assist. Center (Dec. 2014 – Current) Anti-trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Expert Consultant. INVITED LEGAL SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS Page | 3 International The Growing Nexus of Terrorism to Human Trafficking 2020 Fusion Center 5th Annual Human Trafficking Analyst Training, Alabama Fusion Center [2020]. Advancing the Human Trafficking Restorative Justice Approach: A Nuanced Approach to Trafficking Criminal Restitution Calculations; and Changing the Paradigm: Designing Asset Forfeiture Laws to Target Traffickers; and Department of Homeland In-Security? Will President Trump’s EO Inhibit Prosecution of International Human Trafficking? The Cambridge Center for Applied Research in Human Trafficking, CCARHT 2019 Summer Symposium, The Several Rs of Trafficking: its Risks and Rewards (Research, Risks and Rewards, Refugees, Returns, Removals, Rights, Remedy, Reparation, Reporting, Response, Religion); Judge Business School University of Cambridge, United Kingdom [2019]. California’s Restorative Justice Approach: From Criminal Restitution Calculations to Government Victim Service Grants The University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s 2018 Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference, Toronto Canada [2018]. Tracking the Traffickers: how mapping technology can create intelligence lead operational data and Human Trafficking Corporate Supply Chain Transparency: lessons learned and what the future holds The Cambridge Center for Applied Research in Human Trafficking, CCARHT 2018 Summer Symposium, The 5 Ts of Trafficking, Trauma, Transport, Terror, Tech and Transparency (in Supply Chains); Jesus College University of Cambridge, United Kingdom [2018]. The Paragon Team, Lessons Learned: Advanced Law Enforcement Training in Trinidad and Tobago The International Police Training Institute and the International Human Trafficking Coordination and Resource Center, “Breaking the Chains,” [The 3rd Annual collaborative International Summit on combatting Human Trafficking in Los Angles California, 2015.] The Routes of Human Suffering: How point-source and destination-source mapping can help victim services providers and law enforcement agencies effectively combat human trafficking The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology’s (WASET) for "ICHT 2015: [International Conference on Human Trafficking" held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015.] California’s Anti-Trafficking Supply Chain Transparency Act: What It Is and How It Works Page | 4 The International Law Association (ILA) British Branch Spring Conference: "Foundations & Futures of International Law" [Kings College London, Dickson Poon School of Law - 2014.] The International Police Training Institute and the International Human Trafficking Coordination and Resource Center, “Breaking the Chains,” [The 3rd Annual collaborative International Summit on combatting Human Trafficking in Los Angles California, November 2015.] Human Trafficking Corporate Supply Chain Transparency: How best to legislatively approach disclosure Human Trafficking Challenges in the 21st Century, [University of West England-Bristol to be held at Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain - June 2014] HEC Paris’ 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research, [HEC Paris, 2013] Crime Shouldn’t Pay: How California Should Restructure Their Asset Forfeiture Laws to Discourage All Forms of Human Trafficking and Hold the Traffickers More Financially Accountable. 2012 Conference - Policing and European Studies [University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) funded Collaborative Research Network) at the University of Abertay-Dundee Scotland, 2012] What is the Value of Slave Labor?: Why Fair
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