Davina Durgana

Davina P. Durgana, Ph.D. is an award-winning international human rights statistician who has developed leading global models to assess risk and vulnerability to modern slavery. Dr. Durgana is a Report Co-Author and Senior Statistician on the Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index and Senior Multilateral Engagement Adviser for the Minderoo Foundation||She is the American Statistical Association’s 2016 Statistical Advocate of the Year, internationally elected Vice-Chair of Statistics without Borders, and a Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Science for 2017 for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and human trafficking. Dr. Durgana is an inaugural 2020-2022 Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science to motivate women and girls to pursue STEM careers.||