Margaret Roggensack

Margaret Roggensack is the Policy Director for Free the Slaves, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery through community-based and multi-stakeholder partnerships, advocacy and education. Free the Slaves is the sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization.

Prior to joining Free the Slaves, Ms. Roggensack practiced law with Hogan and Hartson, chairing the firm's Latin America Practice Group. During Ms. Roggensack's nearly 20 year career in private legal practice, she counseled clients on bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and sector specific arrangements; represented private sector interests in World Trade Organization dispute settlement proceedings; advised multinational corporations on U.S. and Latin American investments and related sourcing, training and philanthropic initiatives, and played leadership roles in industry task force and coalition efforts.

She has served as an advisor to numerous private and quasi-governmental organizations on democratic transition, rule of law, and economic recovery initiatives and U.S. policy toward Latin America. She is member of the board of the Due Process of Law Foundation, and past president of the Washington Foreign Law Society.

Ms. Roggensack graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1976 with a B.A. in history. She was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow from 1976 to 1978, studying economic development projects in Latin America. She received her J.D. from George Washington University in 1984, where she was the Articles Editor of the Journal of International Law and Economics.