Ambassador-at-Large Susan Coppedge is a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State and heads that department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office). She’s a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia, with a 15-year history of prosecuting sex and labor trafficking cases.
Each year, the TIP Office issues the Trafficking in Persons report, a global ranking of countries’ efforts to comply with the United States’ minimum standards for combating trafficking. Three out of four of those standards focus on eliminating trafficking through criminal punishment.