Board Members

Board Members

Siân Thomas

Siân is a lecturer, social researcher and practitioner with a background in human rights and social work. She first became interested in trafficking as a form of modern slavery while studying for her Master’s degree in Human Rights in 2005, and was part of the initial project team at The Salvation Army when they first took over the national contract for supporting adult victims of trafficking in 2011.

She has worked with migration and gender issues in the UK and Thailand, working with people with a diverse range of experiences, including refugees and asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, sex workers, survivors of torture, and women and men who have experienced domestic abuse.

She is also a registered social worker and has experience of statutory work with children and families in the West Midlands. She currently works for the University of Birmingham as a lecturer on qualifying social work programmes, with a particular focus on gender-based violence, migration and child protection.

She is a member of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), and her research and evaluation work has included projects on supporting women in the asylum process, gender-based violence in the context of displacement, and preventative approaches to asylum support.

Adrian Booth

Adrian has been employed by a government department for more than 40 years.  For 34 of those years he has worked in the law enforcement arena. During that time Adrian has undertaken many criminal interventions to protect the public purse and is now engaged in the assurance of his department’s operational involvement in the criminal justice system. He has worked collaboratively with various other law enforcement agencies both within the UK and overseas, including India, Slovakia, Poland and the Netherlands.

Additionally, Adrian has been involved in tackling human traffickers, working with both the Metropolitan Police on Operation Golf, where Romanian children were being trafficked to the UK and the Polish Police to terminate the activities of an organised criminal enterprise culminating in the arrest of 38 Polish nationals.

Chanelle Alexander

Chanelle has worked in HR within the charity sector for over 10 years, initially working with training and recruitment which involved organising training events and providing administration support to a large charity. Chanelle moved into a generalist HR role within the charity, providing HR support to the senior management team, line managers and individual team members.

Chanelle is currently the HR Business Partner for a charity in Birmingham and works with the Senior Management Team and line managers to ensure that staff teams are engaged, committed and equipped with the skills to enable the organisation to achieve its aims. Chanelle also provides HR support on a consultancy basis to other organisations within the charity sector as part of her current role.

Chanelle believes that places of work should provide maximum opportunities and a safe space for individuals to use and develop their skills, and that organisations should aim to create a working environment centred on fairness, shared values, encouragement and respect.

Shayne Tyler

Shayne Tyler is the Group Compliance Director for a leading fresh produce supplier to retail accounts.  A practical and hands on Director with over 25 years of people leadership within the food industry.  He relies on over 20 years of experience directly managing variable levels of employee exploitation identification and resolution, where he has actively helped shape legislation, guidance, best practice and support mechanisms for the prevention and eradication of worker abuse.

Having had ‘first-hand’ experience that has identified and tackled numerous examples of worker exploitation for such an extended timeframe, Shayne offers a valuable perspective in the fight to improve worker welfare.

Alana Tomlin

Alana has been a Director of the Network since 2015 and has played a central role in developing its fundraising strategy and contributing to its sustainability. In her day job, she is Program Manager and Deputy Director (Operations) of the Developmental Leadership Program, based at the University of Birmingham.

She is currently in the final stages of completing an MSc in International Development alongside work, and her research interests include governance, international approaches to tackling modern slavery and women’s political leadership and participation.

Alana first graduated in English and Creative Writing and started her career in the arts and third-sector in charitable fundraising. Based on her long-standing interest in solving complex social issues, from 2015-2019 she worked in research management and support – specialising in research funding for the social sciences.

In her spare time Alana likes to read, run (short distances!) and brush up on her German language skills!