A Struggle for Survival: Trafficking of North Korean Women

Speaker: Ambassador Mark P. Lagon
U.S. Department of State
About the Speaker: Ambassador Mark P. Lagon is Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the State Department. His office coordinates U.S. Government activities in the global fight against modern-day slavery, including forced labor and sexual exploitation.
From 2004 to 2007, Ambassador Lagon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, and from 2002-2004 was a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. From 1999 to 2002, he was a senior staff member on the Republican staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Before working on Capitol Hill, Ambassador Lagon served as the principal aide to the Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick. He is the author of The Reagan Doctrine: Sources of American Conduct in the Cold War’s Last Chapter. He received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University.
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