Luis Assis, PhD

Dr. Luis de Assis is a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford. He is a Brazilian federal prosecutor, data scientist, and strategist, and has collaborated as an expert on projects with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations University, and the World Bank. Luis oversees the SmartLab Initiative, a unique project that utilizes open-source administrative data to provide stakeholders with actionable insights to improve policy making at the national, regional, and local levels (smartlabbr.org). In his role as federal prosecutor, Luis has created The Observatories of Slave Labor and Human Trafficking, and The Observatory of the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor. In cooperation with the ILO, Luis also leads the Monitora 8.7 platform (monitora87.org) monitoring action plans for the eradication of human trafficking and child labor, with projects in Brazil and in Latin American/Caribbean countries. Luis also teaches at the Federal School for Prosecutors in Brazil.