Who is Timea?
TIMEA E NAGY is a Best-selling author, UN Advisor, Human Rights activist and Keynote Speaker. Timea’s journey as a survivor of Sex trafficking, one of the leading voices and changemakers in the Nation and Global movement. As a founder of Canada’s first Victim Service agency aiming to serve Victims of Human Trafficking only and as a founder of Canada’s first safe house for victims of human trafficking, Timea has an incredible tale to tell.
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Not just about the survival of her own tragic events but about her personal healing journey while becoming the Nation’s face, voice and leader in fighting the crime of Human Trafficking.
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Timea is a visionary, a changemaker a humanitarian, a motivational and inspirational speaker and a Global influencer. Timea will speak with the same ease to a group of uniformed officers, such as the Prime Minister of Canada, Kings, Queens, Princes of German-speaking heads of state, or in front of the toughest crowds we know: teenage girls. :-)
Timea’s work
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Frontlines
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​In 2009, Ms. Nagy founded ‘Walk with Me,’ a non-profit organization that assists victims of human trafficking and law enforcement agencies. Between 2009 and 2015, her organization helped over 300 victims and over 500 human trafficking-related investigations throughout Canada. In fact, Ms. Nagy played a key role in Canada’s largest human trafficking investigation led by the Canadian Federal Police (RCMP Niagara Falls Detachment), known as Project OPAPA.
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Awareness/Training
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Ms. Nagy provided training to numerous agencies in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, reaching hundreds of thousands of people in various sectors such as law enforcement, financial institutions, hospitality, real estate, tech companies, and much more. She has also worked with Social Media giants such as Facebook and Airbnb, assisting their Special Victim Unit and Financial Intelligence Investigators related to Human Trafficking. Ms. Nagy has also trained The United Nations Police, Drugs and Crime unit, and officers provided to 97 countries online.
During the Pandemic, Ms. Nagy founded TC Online Institute, the world’s first Survivor Led Human Trafficking educational center. Timea’s course, developed by TC Online Institute in partnership with other Survivor leaders, called The Mindset of a Human Trafficked Victim, has been officially adopted by the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, Canada’s largest Online Police Training Institute, serving 100,000 members. Her Survivor-led Police training has also been implemented by some of the largest Police agencies in Canada, such as the RCMP, Peel Regional Police, Toronto Police and more.
Timea was instrumental in bringing an American Victim Rescue Model to Canada, later named Project Northern Spotlight, where hundreds of Police agencies timed their victim rescue operations on the same days across Canada. Hundreds of wanted criminals were arrested,
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Global Advocacy
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Ms. Nagy also brought her strategic advisory skills to Global Governments, such as the OSCE and the United Nations, under the umbrella of the FAST Initiative—an organization mobilizing the Financial sector worldwide powered by the United Nations University.
Timea was also one of the Survivors' leaders and voices during the United Nations Financial Taskforce against Modern-Day Slavery. As a result, she and her Survivors' leader partner recommended that the Financial sector create a program where Survivors can regain their status in the Financial industry by being offered bank accounts and other financial services.
The program is now called The Survivor Inclusion Initiative and is in over ten countries. Over 2,500 Survivors received their first bank card after being trafficked. Timea is assisting Scotiabank in developing this program further in Canada.
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Timea was the first Survivor to educate the Financial Sector on the importance of Human Trafficking Detection through transactions. Timea inspired the globally known, award-winning Canadian project Project Protect. The world’s first Public/Private partnership is where Banks, Law Enforcement and Regulators unite to fight Human Trafficking by breaking down privacy-related policies and barriers. Fintrac, Canada’s Financial Regulator body, spearheaded the project, and by using the same method, they decided to pilot several other projects to fight crimes from the Financial angle. The projects got incredible results not just in Canada but Globally. Project Protect played a crucial role in fighting crimes like Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Elderly abuse more effectively.
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Ms. Nagy’s work and the story have been featured in FORBES Magazine, CNN, NBC, Fox News, The Social, and all the major Canadian media outlets.
Queen Elizabeth II, the Prime Minister of Canada and the Attorney General, the Governor General, recognized her work.
Her memoir, Out of the Shadows, was released in May 2019 and became a National Bestseller within six days of release.
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Recognitions
