The public is invited to attend a World Affairs Forum Great Decisions event featuring Joseph Chamie, Former Director, United Nations Population Division. Mr. Chamie will speak on “Human Trafficking in the 21st Century” at the Greenwich Library on April 27, 2015.

Chamie is currently an independent consulting demographer. As recently as 2011 he was research director at the Center for Migration Studies, New York and editor of the International Migration Review. Formerly, he was the director of the United Nations Population Division. He had been with the United Nations in the field of population and development both overseas and in New York for more than a quarter century. Among other major duties, he was the deputy secretary-general for the 1994 United Nations International Conference for Population and Development.

In addition to completing numerous population reports issued under United Nations authorship, he has also published studies and articles in his own name in such areas as fertility, population estimates and projections, international migration and population and development policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the Migration Policy Institute.

This event is free and open to the public. The program will begin at 7:00 pm. Greenwich Library is a co-sponsor of the program. For more information please contact the World Affairs Forum at (203) 356-0340 or info@worldaffairsforum.org.

The World Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to expanding understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the world. The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America.