Founder and PresidentTransparentem
Ben is the Founder & President of Transparentem, an organization that advances the well-being of workers and communities by exposing hard truths to those with the power to transform industries.
Previously, Ben was a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He served as Special Assistant to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and worked as a Research Associate for US Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His more than 50 chapters, monographs, and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Bloomberg Businessweek, Time, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, the Los Angeles Times, and Foreign Policy.
Ben’s first book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press; 2008), was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. The World Economic Forum recognized him as a Young Global Leader in 2011. Ben graduated from Wesleyan University.