Tarana Baghirova leads the OSCE’s portfolio on financial investigations into human trafficking as well as policy work on trafficking nexus with drugs and terrorism. Until 2023, she also led OSCE Special Representatives political mandate of country visits and evaluated over 20 States’ anti-trafficking efforts. Tarana possesses over 15 years of international experience in coordinated policy planning and program management in a range of areas including security affairs, transnational threats and criminal justice reform.
Prior to joining the Office the Special Representative in 2015, she led Anti-Trafficking programme in the OSCE Office in Baku and also consulted other international organizations, such International Organization for Migration and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in assessing the state’s anti-trafficking responses.