Full Name
Ms. Rachel Phillips Phillips Rigby
Job Title
Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
Company
U.S. Department of Labor
Speaker Bio
Rachel Phillips Rigby is Deputy Division Chief for Research and Policy in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT), where she has served since 2005. She initially managed grants to combat child labor in the South Asian subcontinent and conducted research on child labor and forced labor in that region. Since 2007, she has managed the development and publication of the Department’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. She is also the lead author of the Department’s 2017 mobile application, Comply Chain: Business Tools for Labor Compliance in Global Supply Chains. Ms. Rigby’s background includes several years in the nonprofit sector with international microfinance and public health organizations. She holds an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a BA from Grinnell College, and has studied and volunteered abroad in Switzerland, France, England, and Bolivia. She speaks French and Spanish.
