--- title: "Dr. David Batstone" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/dr-david-batstone/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- [Authors](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/) # Dr. David Batstone Co-Founder and President of Not For Sale [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-batstone-89198412/) Dr. David Batstone wrote Not For Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade, the investigation that became the organization he co-founded with Mark Wexler in 2007. The book began close to home, after he learned that a restaurant he ate at regularly in the Bay Area was operating as a front for a local trafficking ring. He has since published peer-reviewed research on trafficking in global supply chains and is Faculty Emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Management, where he taught for more than two decades. He is the co-founder of [Just Business](http://www.justbusiness.is) , [REBBL](http://www.rebbl.co) , and [Regenerate Technology Global](https://regeneratetechnology.com/) . ## Articles by Dr. David Batstone Dec 18, 2025 Social Innovation [A New Chapter](https://wearenotforsale.org/social-innovation/a-new-chapter/) Not For Sale has never worked from a fixed playbook. From the beginning, our work has lived in a constant state of… ## Other authors ### [Mark Wexler](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/mark-wexler/) Co-Founder and CEO, Not For Sale Mark Wexler is Co-Founder and CEO of Not For Sale and a longtime builder of alternatives to the systems that enable modern-day slavery and ecocide. 14 articles ### [Dr. David Mwambari](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/david-mwambari/) Country Director of Not For Sale South Rwanda Dr. David Mwambari directs Not For Sale's work in Rwanda and is an associate professor at KU Leuven, where his research covers memory politics, conflict, and… 1 article ### [Ricardo Dawson](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/ricardo-dawson/) Country Director of Not For Sale Peru Peruvian abolitionist and Not For Sale's Peru country director, based in Madre de Dios, where he has led the organization's work with Amazon communities since 2007. 2 articles [‹ Back to all authors](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/)