Elaine Mitchel-Hill is an impressive and influential force in the global fight to eradicate forced and child labour from the construction industry. By operating at the nexus of finance, governmental policy and corporate practice, she has pioneered a unique and highly effective model for change. She has striven tirelessly to find ‘workable’ solutions to stem an abuse affecting over five million people in the sector.
One of her most profound impacts lies in mobilising the financial sector. She successfully galvanised the CCLA’s investor coalition (comprising of $19.6 trillion in assets) to focus its ‘Find It, Fix It, Prevent It’ initiative on modern slavery in construction, spurring high-level government-corporate roundtables. For the UK Foreign Office, she authored the game-changing RAPID Framework, providing investors with the first actionable strategies to integrate child labour risks into their decisions.
She shapes global policy, driving the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s work and bringing together over 50 parliamentarians. She is the co-architect of a new UK All-Party Parliamentary Group to scrutinise the UK government’s £775 billion infrastructure pipeline, creating a powerful lever to eradicate “embodied slavery”.
Elaine’s influence is such that she was a speaker at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva in November 2025.
By making anti-slavery action practical and demonstrating its commercial value, she has uniquely motivated the industry to reform itself, creating a lasting legacy of tangible change for lives across the globe.