Henry has spent 35 years as a British diplomat, the larger proportion of which has been in the Arab world. Amongst his posts have been those of UK High Commissioner to Namibia, Ambassador to Syria and Governorate Coordinator for Basra in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Since retiring from the foreign service in 2004 he has undertaken some 20 election observation missions, spanning five continents, for the EU, Commonwealth and other organisations. He has also participated in stabilisation training exercises for the UK Government; and is a Senior Consultant with Middle East Consultants (MEC) International Ltd, with whom he has worked on an initiative to protect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East. As a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he chairs the UK’s southern region branch.

Eleanor is Director of Monash GPS (Global Peace and Security) and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. Her research and practice focus on building security and justice after conflict and inclusive approaches to peacebuilding. Eleanor has a PhD in Criminology and has spent 25 years working in the field of conflict, security and justice, including over a decade working in UN peace operations in management and advisory roles with the UN and other international organisations. She has been War Crimes Advisor to the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Head of the BiH Human Rights Coordination Centre, Deputy Head of the Human Rights and Rule of Law Department in the Office of the High Representative (OHR) iin BiH, Head of the UN Refugee Agency Satellite Office in Eastern Republika Srpska covering Srebrenica, Chef de Cabinet for an EU technical mission in BiH, Political Advisor to the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), Coordinator in the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and UN Gender Mainstreaming Focal Point. Her work has included building state security and justice institutions, working with demobilized guerrilla groups, addressing war crimes and human rights violations, promoting gender equality and inclusive approaches to peacebuilding, and addressing issues related to organised crime and terrorism. Since leaving the UN, Eleanor has worked at a number of universities, provided consultancy services to various international organisations, NGOs, governments and universities, including the UN Development Programme (UNDP), World Bank (WB), Saferworld, The Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), The Asia Foundation (TAF), International Alert, the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE), and the Open University (OU) UK. She is a Member of the World Bank Group's Global Influencer Barometer Panel, Expert Member of UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, Member of RUSI’s Strategic Hub on Organised Crime research, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and, until recently, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Security Governance, Saferworld Trustee, and Deployable Civilian Expert with the UK Government's Stabilisation Unit. Eleanor is an Associate Editor with 'Stability: Journal of Security and Development' and on the Editorial Board of 'ScienceRise: Juridical Science', a Ukrainian-based journal covering state formation and law-making in war/post-war contexts.

Omar is a development studies and management specialist. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development and Governance (CeSDAG), a Gambian CSO promoting social justice, central and local government accountability and equity. He is currently serving as a consultant, Project Manager on the Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE) Project funded by the World Bank to transform the Gambia Technical Training Institute (GTTI) to the University of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (USET). Previous assignments include as Adviser on Governance and Public Sector Management in the development of the Gambia’s Second National Development Plan, (2023-27); advising the Gambia’s Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) in a review of the 1997 Constitution; advisory assignments for Action Aid, Child Fund and other CSOs, as well as the National Human Rights Commission; and assignments for regional and international agencies including ECOWAS, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), UNICEF and the EU. Omar is bi-lingual (French-English

Avgustina’s expertise lies in the geo-politics of Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, regional cooperation and Euro-Atlantic integration. Until her recent retirement she held (from 2016) the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Bulgaria to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prior to that she served as a defence and security adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, as political adviser to the Minister of Defence, and as Deputy Defence Minister with a portfolio encompassing strategic planning and defence policy, bilateral consultations, relations with NATO and the EU, and anti-corruption policies. She has served as a Vice President of the Atlantic Treaty Association, chaired the Euro-Atlantic Education Initiative Foundation, and served as a subject matter expert for NATO’s Building Integrity (BI) programme and as senior adviser at Transparency International (TI)-UK Defence and Security Programme. She has lectured internationally at major centres including the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany; the National Defence University, Shrivenham, UK; the National Defence University of Ukraine; the International Anti-corruption Academy, Vienna, and the European Centre for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. She has participated as a speaker at major international conferences including the UN Anti-corruption Convention in Panama and the Sixth Global Conference of Parliamentarians Against Corruption in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Maciej is an independent adviser and trainer specialising in governance and anti-corruption, and currently a visiting lecturer at Poland’s National School for Public Administration and Warsaw’s Military University of Technology. He has advised at the highest levels across Poland’s public service and in its Defence Sector. His appointments include those of Special Representative for Governance and Anti-Corruption, and Senior Counsellor with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Senior International Adviser and Director of the Anti-Corruption Procedures Bureau with the Ministry of Defence. He has been instrumental in the development of Codes of Conduct for both civilian and military personnel; advised the Anti-Corruption Panel of the EU Eastern Partnership, NATO Building Defence Establishments Programme; and has been a member of Peer Review Teams evaluating integrity self-assessments in Bosnia Herzegovina, Ukraine, Croatia and Latvia. Formerly a Board Member of Transparency International Poland, he is the author of many reports and publications on anti-corruption, including “Basics of Anti-corruption for Public and Private Entities”, Forum Media, Polska, Poznań, 2017.

Peter is a development economist, specialising in economic management systems development, and financial, economic and social analysis of public sector technical support programmes. Presently he is the manager of a small, specialist development management consultancy. Previously he held senior advisory positions on technical cooperation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. For 17 years he was a Senior Interregional Adviser with the Department of Technical Cooperation for Development (DTCD), backstopping and providing technical support for UNDP funded country- based projects and programmes in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Subsequently, he was a Senior Technical Cooperation Adviser in the Office of the Under-Secretary General, UNDESA (the Department of Economic and Social Affairs), where amongst other activities he became member of the UN Development Group (UNDG) and advised the Humanitarian Trust Fund for Human Security. Prior to joining the UN in New York, he held the positions of Chief Technical Adviser and Team Leader of a UNDP/World Bank team supporting economic management in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Uganda; and, financed by the UK's Overseas Development Administration, Economic Adviser to the Economic Planning unit in Sabah Malaysia under the Colombo Plan. Previous positions included as economic management consultant with Coopers and Lybrand Associates (now Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC)); economic adviser attached to the Secretariat of the Royal Commission on the Press under the auspices of the Civil Service Commission, UK Government; and as Nuffield Fellow with the Overseas Development Institute where he advised as regional economist in Uganda. He is the author of numerous project reports and papers.

Dr Mark Charlton is Associate Director of Sustainable Development Goal Impact and Net Zero Research Theme Director at De Montfort University (DMU), UK. He also teaches public policy in the Department of Politics. Since 2014, Mark has worked closely with the United Nations (UN) on a number of campaigns that engage university staff and students in global issues. Since 2016 Mark has led the United Nations Academic Impact Global Hub for Sustainable Development Goal 16, based at DMU, working across the university to develop research and teaching outputs that seek to impact and promote indicators of the SDGs. Following a recent programme of change to chairing responsibilities for all SDG hubs, instigated by the UN , Mark now heads the SDG 11 Hub at DMU.

Dr Lennon Chang is Associate Professor, Cyber Risk and Policy, in Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Centre and School of Information Technology, at Deakin University, Australia. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Association of Technology and Society which he co-founded in 2012 and the founder of Cyberbaykin: Myanmar Cyber Security Awareness campaign. Previous appointments include as Assistant Professor of criminology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong, and as researcher and project manager at the Science and Technology Law Centre, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan. He is particularly interested in the regulation and governance of cyberspace in the Asia-Pacific region. His book ‘Cybercrime in the Greater China Region: Regulatory Responses and Crime Prevention’ (Edward Elgar, 2012) is about the nature and range of responses to cybercrime between China and Taiwan.