Bharti Patel

Ms. Bharti Patel is CEO of ECPAT UK, a leading children’s rights charity campaigning against child trafficking and transnational child exploitation. Bharti has more than
fifteen years’ experience working to address human rights abuses, leading
high-profile research, campaigning and advocacy organisations in the UK
and India. Bharti’s passion to challenge the root causes of child
exploitation and abuse underpins her leadership role with ECPAT UK,
where she has overseen important changes to law and policy in the area
of child protection and trafficking prevention. In the UK, Bharti’s prior
achievements include successfully lobbying for Britain’s first-ever national
minimum wage legislation and helping secure basic employment rights for
low-paid and part-time workers. In India, Bharti delivered sustainable
development programmes to strengthen food, water and livelihood
security for vulnerable communities. An accomplished speaker and writer,
Bharti has featured widely in the British print and broadcast media, and is regularly quoted in articles
on poverty, inequality, child trafficking and child protection.