Quinn Kepes

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Research Program Manager

Quinn provides objective, actionable research to government institutions, businesses, pension funds, NGOs, academics, and individual consumers that accurately informs decisions on policies, sourcing, investments, and purchases, encouraging respect for labor rights. He oversees Verité’s annual Emerging Markets Research Program, under which he supervises the work of field researchers in 25 focal countries for the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS), manages Verité’s research project for the U.S. Department of Labor on the causal factors of forced labor, as well as the formulation of policy recommendations to combat this phenomenon in seven countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, and is the research manager for a Verité project to determine the ways in which Nepalese immigrants are trafficked to India, Israel, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. In addition, Quinn supervises work on Verité’s Labor Law Digests, Country Labor Standards Compliance Assessments, and individual research projects for businesses and pension funds. Quinn has lived in Guatemala for four years, where he worked with NGOs and civil society initiatives on indigenous rights and sustainable tourism and has supervised and carried out field research. He speaks English and Spanish. In Guatemala, Quinn obtained a graduate degree in Human Rights and Political Participation through the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR). Quinn also holds a B.A. in Political Science as well as Certificates in International Relations and Latin American Studies.