Markéta Hronková is director and national coordinator of La Strada Czech Republic. She holds a degree in law from University of Western Bohemia in Pilsen. For more than 15 years she works in the field of human rights with special focus on women’s rights and different forms of discrimination, including research on gender aspects of asylum seeking. In her previous work she participated in several studies and researches of funding for women’s rights and feminist philanthropy.  Her work on the DemandAT project focuses on coordination and management, dissemination and stakeholder interaction, government responses, policy instruments to steer demand and the role of law enforcement actors.

Lucián Otáhal works as a lawyer and legal analyst in La Strada Czech Republic. For more than 7 years he focuses professionally on human rights. Since 2011 he works with La Strada Czech Republic on lobbying and advocacy strategies. He published several legal texts concerning protection against discrimination. In the area of trafficking, he has analysed the implementation of two EU directives – the Employer’s Sanctions Directive and the Directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims. His work on the DemandAT project focuses on government responses, different forms of THB and the role of law enforcement actors.

Michal Krebs works for La Strada Czech Republic since 2006 as a social and outreach worker. He is in charge of La Strada’s Outreach work programme and participated in several researches focused on different migrant communities in the context of human trafficking - e.g. research on Mongolian labour migration, Vietnamese Workers in the Czech Factories or a study focused on the analysis of employment agencies. He holds a Master’s Degree in Social Pedagogy. His work on the DemandAT project focuses on the demand in different form of THB and the role of law enforcement actors.