Human Trafficking Awareness

Dave Rogers, Presenter

International Anti-Human Trafficking Consultant

Retired Head of the FBI's
Global Anti-Human Trafficking Program

Dave Rogers retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in July of 2015 after serving as a federal criminal investigator for over 23 years. He spent the last four years of his career as the manager of the FBI’s global Human Trafficking program within the Civil Rights Unit. He represented the FBI in the federal inter-agency work to combat human trafficking in the US and abroad. He created training programs for law enforcement officers at the federal, state, and local levels, and helped develop governmental policy related to anti-trafficking matters. Throughout his career, he provided briefings on human trafficking to senior government officials, including the President of the United States, the Director of the FBI, and members of congressional committees.

In addition to training federal law enforcement officers in the United States, Rogers has trained government units on human trafficking enforcement from Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. Before leading the FBI’s anti-trafficking work, Rogers was an advanced instructor at the FBI Academy, where he trained new agents to conduct criminal investigations. During his career, he worked Organized Crime matters, Labor Racketeering, Asset Forfeiture/Money Laundering and International Terrorism. In 2013-2014, he spent four months in Afghanistan working on contract corruption investigations, including several labor trafficking matters. He started his law enforcement career as a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, and conducted complex fraud and bribery investigations. He also worked as a Special Agent with the U.S. Air Force, Office of Special Investigations in the Reserves, working on rape
investigations, fraud, and counter-espionage matters.

Upon retirement from the FBI in 2015, Rogers transitioned to Hope for Justice to serve as the US Program Director. In that role, he established Hope for Justice as a private investigation company where they partnered with law enforcement on human trafficking investigations, training, and awareness programs throughout Tennessee.

From 2017-2020, Rogers served as the Director of Law Enforcement Operations at the Human Trafficking Institute. He oversaw the development of Institute programs by working with foreign government and non-government criminal justice officials to help them enhance their anti-human trafficking enforcement efforts. He worked to establish dedicated anti-human trafficking units within the police forces in Uganda and Belize, and in the Ugandan prosecutor’s office. His work also included designing and tailoring training to maximize the impact of specialized units in partner countries in Belize and Uganda.

He currently serves as a Special Advisor for Atlas Free, engaging with their partner organizations on the best ways to engage with law enforcement in their anti-trafficking work. Rogers graduated from American University in 1991 with a B.S. in International Relations. He was on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1984-1988, and deployed in 1991 as part of Operation Desert Storm with the U.S. Air Force Reserve.