Greg Asbed, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, is a co-founder of the Fair Food Program and the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model, a breakthrough, worker-driven approach to verifiable corporate accountability recognized by observers from the United Nations to the White House for its unique effectiveness in combatting forced labor, sexual violence, and other gross human rights violations in agriculture. Mr. Asbed spearheads the development of the Fair Food Program's innovative market-based enforcement mechanisms, rights standards, and worker education processes. He coordinates relations amongst transnational corporate buyers (including Ahold, Sodexo, Compass, Walmart, McDonalds), industry suppliers, and farmworkers. He also consults with other industries and sectors, both nationally and internationally, on the adaptation of the FFP to other contexts. On behalf of the Fair Food Program, Mr. Asbed accepted the 2015 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts in Combatting Human Trafficking at the White House. He is the recipient of the 2014 Clinton Global Citizen Award, the 2013 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom From Want Medal, and the 2016 James Beard Leadership Award. Mr. Asbed is an advisory board member of the EU’s Horizon 2020 Durham University project to end forced labor in supply chains, and the author of numerous articles on the elimination of labor abuses in supply chains. He is featured in the film Food Chains.Mr. Asbed has a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University and an M.A. in International Economics and Social Change and Development from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He speaks English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. He also spent 18 seasons harvesting watermelons across the Southeastern United States.