Anna Koppel
Board of Directors

Since 2007, Anna has been the Director of Research and Development at The Protection Project, a leading human rights and anti-human trafficking research center at the Foreign PolicyInstitute of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C.

Previously, she served in the capacity of Human Rights Program Coordinator with The Protection Project, coordinating and carrying out field research on trafficking in persons and related topics.

From 1999 to 2001, Ms. Koppel worked at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, where she provided administrative and technical support for two peer-reviewed, competitive research grant programs sponsored by the United States Agency for International

Development (USAID) aimed at fostering scientific collaboration among researchers in the Middle East and between Israeli research centers with those in Central Asia and Africa.

Ms. Koppel received her Master’s degree in International Relations with concentrations in International Development and International Economics in May of 2003 from Johns Hopkins-SAIS and her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland in May 1999.

Ms. Koppel is fluent in English and Russian and conversational in Italian.