Alana Stott, MBE, CAP® is a human trafficking expert, investigator, entrepreneur, author and international speaker with more than two decades of experience working to prevent exploitation and protect vulnerable people.

A Certified Human Trafficking Investigator and doctoral candidate in clinical sexology, Alana advises legal teams, governments and institutions on grooming, coercive control, sexual exploitation, trafficking and systemic abuse. Her work spans investigative OSINT, expert witness testimony, policy development, institutional risk and exploitation prevention.

Awarded an MBE for services to vulnerable women and children, Alana is now leading work that challenges how we understand exploitation, shifting the focus from responding to harm after it happens to identifying and preventing the conditions that allow it to begin.