Aidan McQuade, novelist & anti-slavery campaigner

Aidan McQuade is an anti-slavery and human rights consultant who hails from South Armagh in Ireland. From 2006 until 2017, he was director of the non-governmental organisation, Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organisation. Prior to that, for 13 years he worked in humanitarian response, development and human rights. Aidan is also a patron of the Dalit Solidarity Network UK and an ambassador for the international Dalit Solidarity Network.He published his first novel, The Undiscovered Country, in 2020 with Unbound Books following a successful crowd-funding project, while Aidan can also boast of being the first Mastermind champion to appear on the Read All About It podcast, having won the competition in 2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.