Morten Bergsmo is the Director of the Network. It is incorporated as an international non-profit organization in Brussels, Belgium, by Royal Decree WL 22/15.887 dated 15 June 2010, with the incorporation number 0827.424.153. The Network is advised by Sofie Devos, Notary and Partner in the law firm Francois Herinckx and Sofie Devos, Notaires associes - Geassocieerde notarissen, Rue du Midi 146, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Morten Bergsmo has worked with international criminal law and criminal justice for atrocities since 1993. He is Senior Researcher, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law; Visiting Fellow, Stanford University; Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; and Co-ordinator of the ICC Legal Tools Project (2006-). He was formerly Senior Researcher, PRIO (2006-2009); Special Adviser to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution of Norway (2007-08); Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002-05); Co-ordinator of the establishment of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002-03); Legal Adviser, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1994-2002); and Legal Adviser, UN Commission of Experts for the Former Yugoslavia established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780(1992) (1993-94). He represented the ICTY to the UN negotiation process to establish the ICC (1996-2002).

Since 2005, he has worked more closely with national capacity building, knowledge-transfer and legal empowerment in the area of core international crimes, including in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, Iraq, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway and Serbia. He has published extensively in international criminal law and has had several international consultancies in international criminal justice. He founded and directs the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law (see http://www.fichl.org). Ralph Hecksteden and Bergsmo won the 2008 Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics for the development of the Case Matrix.