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NORC at the University Chicago
Kareem is an expert in the measurement of vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations with a special focus on human trafficking.

With over 20 years of experience in international data collection, Kareem is an expert on cross-cultural survey design, analytics, and management of international projects related to persons in vulnerable and hard-to-reach situations including trafficking survivors, at-risk migrants, and indigenous peoples.

Kareem’s research focuses on forced labor, child labor, countering-trafficking-in-persons (CTIP), at-risk migration, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). As program area director, Kareem directs and provides technical oversight on multiple extensive data collection projects funded by USAID, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. State Department, the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, and the International Labour Organization among others. He is a member of the U.S. State Department’s Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum (PRIF) where he works with research organizations around the world to define new methods in locating and researching hard-to-reach populations. For these projects, Kareem provides technical oversight on all aspects of the research and data collection for NORC, including methodology, quality control, budgeting, deliverables, and client interactions.