Timothy (Tim) Ryan was the Asia Regional Program Director for Solidarity Center overseeing all Solidarity Center programmes for Asia (Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam) with regional programmes in India, Nepal, Philippines, and the Maldives. He spent eight years in Asia working on organising export processing zones, migrant worker issues, and in India and Pakistan his work was focused on developing programmes to combat child labour. His writing on labour and political issues has appeared in Harper’s, Foreign Policy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Thomson-Reuters, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and in national newspapers in South Asia and Latin America. He is the Executive Producer of “Knots: A Forced Marriage Story,” an international award-winning feature-length documentary on forced marriage in the US.