Andrea Rossi (economist)
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Andrea Rossi is the Director of the Measurement and Human Rights Program at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
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, United States
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 where he was policy Fellow http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/aboutus/pastfellows.php.

He has been a United Nations
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 Officer working as advisor on child protection and migration
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 for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) headquarters in New York
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. He has been a research coordinator at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence working specifically on child trafficking. Mr. Rossi is an economist with a particular focus on development and applied research. He previously worked for the International Labour Organization
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 ILO
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 in the East Africa Area Office, in Tanzania
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 in charge of research and statistics on child labour.

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