Dr. David
Passarelli
Dr. David Passarelli is the Executive Director of United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, which acts as the Secretariat for the Liechtenstein Initiative for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking. In this role, he oversees the Centre’s research and policy advisory programing in the areas of modern slavery and human trafficking, migration, inequality, and development. Dr. Passarelli has worked with United Nations University since 2008 and was previously UNU’s Executive Officer, advising UNU’s Rector on management and institutional development initiatives at UNU Headquarters in Tokyo and across the UNU system. He also served as the Secretary of the governing board and as a member of the UNU’s Management Group. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Chief of Staff, during which time he also contributed to the research program of UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility as an honorary associate research fellow. Prior to joining UNU in 2008, Dr. Passarelli worked as a research assistant at the Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration at Waseda University and has published in the areas of migration, political theory, and comparative international higher education. He is a member of the UN Inter-Agency Expert Group for the review of Sustainable Development Goals best practices and has served as a consultant to several governments.