Elisabeth Baumgartner holds a masters degree in law (bilingual French-German) from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and an LL.M (Masters in International Humanitarian Law) from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights of the University of Geneva. Since 2002 she is admitted to the bar in Switzerland, where she worked as an attorney in Zurich before joining the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She has also worked for the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, is currently teaching international criminal law at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) and coordinating a peace mediation project for the Swiss foundation swisspeace, while finishing a PhD thesis in international criminal law. Languages: English, German, French, Spanish.

Dr Olympia Bekou is Lecturer in Law and Head of the International Criminal Justice Unit of the Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. A qualified lawyer, she specialises in international criminal law with particular expertise in national implementing legislation for the ICC. Olympia has provided research and capacity building support for 63 States, through intensive training to more than 75 international government officials and drafting assistance to Samoa (with legislation enacted in November 2007), Fiji and Jamaica. She is responsible for the National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) of the ICC Legal Tools Project and has researched and taught extensively worldwide.

Dr. Helge Brunborg is a Senior Research Fellow in Statistics Norway. He has previously worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a demographer/statistician (1997-98 and later as a Consultant). He pioneered the use of statistics and demography in the investigations and prosecutions of the international criminal tribunals. He has served as an expert witness in a number of ICTY trials. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics/Demography from University of Michigan and a Cand. Oecon. from the University of Oslo. He is Chair of the Panel on the Demography of Armed Conflict, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has worked as a special advisor on data and analysis issues in numerous countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has also published a book and several articles on issues related to the demography of armed conflict.

Dr. Uwe Ewald is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, i. Br., Germany, as a Senior Researcher at the criminological department, conducting research on serious international crimes and preparing a European Core Crime Data Base. Since 2002, he teaches Supranational Criminology as a lecturer at the Ruhr University Bochum, Chair of Criminology and Police Science. He is the founding Executive Director of the International Justice Analysis Forum, an Internet portal which appeals to unite crime and legal analysts as well as empirical researchers in social and legal sciences in the field of serious crimes of international concern, first and foremost international core crimes. From 2002 till 2009, he worked as a crime analyst for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, mainly conducting strategic analysis. Due to his legal background (Dr. iur.) he has been working (beside his academic positions) as a defense counsel, in particular in state crime cases in Germany. He began his academic career at the Humboldt University Berlin, and conducted research and hold teaching positions at different universities, in particular at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and the Free University Berlin. 

Mark B. Harmon is a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He has been a prosecutor at the ICTY since 1994 and was lead counsel in a number of important prosecutions including the case of the Prosecutor v. Krstic which resulted in the first conviction of genocide at the ICTY. Before his work at the ICTY, Mr. Harmon was a Federal Prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., having served in two litigation sections: the Environmental Crimes Section and the Civil Rights Criminal Section. He also served as a Deputy Public Defender in Santa Clara County in California. He is a frequent lecturer at university seminars.

Dr. Robert W. Heinsch, LL.M. is an Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University. Previously, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Chair for International and European Law and the Law Centre for International and European Cooperation of the University of Cologne. He has also worked as a Legal Officer for the Vice President at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and as Legal Advisor in the International Law and International Institutions Department of the German Red Cross Headquarters in Berlin. During his time at the ICC he was member of the Legal Tools Advisory Committee. In addition, he has been a Visiting Lecturer for International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law at the Ruhr-University of Bochum and has been associated with the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV). He is corresponding Author of the German Journal of Peace and Armed Conflict (JILPAC); Member of the German Working Group for International Criminal Law; Member of the United Nations Association (UNA) of Germany; and Member of the International Law Association (ILA). He holds a Dr. jur. (Ph.D. in Law) Degree from the University of Cologne, an LL.M. Degree from the University of London, and the First and Second Legal State Examination which qualifies him for all juridical posts in his home country. His areas of expertise encompass International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and the implementation of these areas in national jurisdictions.

Emilie Hunter is completing her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence where she focuses on national investigations of international crimes. She is a Fellow of the International Criminal Justice Unit at the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, where she was Research and Programmes Coordinator between 2007-2009. Emilie has provided research and capacity building support on implementation of the Rome Statute to State representatives, lawyers and NGO's in the Middle East, North Africa and Caribbean and has acted as co-litigant on universal jurisdiction cases in Spain. She has also overseen the creation and development of the National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) of the ICC Legal Tools Project and has developed the knowledge transfer practises of the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre.

Sangkul Kim completed his LL.B. at Korea University in Seoul before working in legal departments for multinational corporations for four years. He then obtained a LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., majoring in international criminal law. Until 2009, he worked as Associate Legal Advisor in the Legal Advisory Section and the Prosecution Division of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor for four and a half years. He has been involved in Case Matrix training and advisory work in several Asian countries. He is one of the architects behind the 'Means of Proof' digest accessible through the Case Matrix.

Magali Maystre is Associate Legal Officer in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). As a Board Member of TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), she co-directs together with Elisabeth Baumgartner the Legal Tools Project, which TRIAL joined as an outsourcing partner in 2008. Her previous experience includes positions as a Legal Assistant in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Independent Expert to the European Union-China Dialogue Seminar on Human Rights, Judges Assistant at the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT) and Assistant to the Swiss Delegation for the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Magali has also taught international criminal law courses to human rights defenders in Geneva. She has previously been a Law Clerk in the Legal Advisory Section in the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC and in the Prosecution Division of the Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Magali holds a D.E.A. (postgraduate degree, M.Phil. equivalent) in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Her DEAs thesis on contemporary issues regarding child soldiers in international humanitarian law and international criminal law was awarded the Association des Fonctionnaires Internationaux Suisses (AFIS) Prize in 2007. She has published on various international criminal law issues, including on the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).

Salim Nakhjavani is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in general public international law and international criminal law. His current PhD research focuses on complexity theory and international law; other research interests include international criminal law and procedure and international sustainable development law. Prior to his appointment at UCT in 2006, he served as Associate Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2005), working on a review of judicial processes in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and as Assistant Legal Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2003-2004), where he was involved in the preparatory and initial investigative activities of that Office, including the development of the Case Matrix and other components of the ICC Legal Tools. He was elected to the Whewell Scholarship in International Law in the University of Cambridge in 2002. He has lectured on international human rights law and specialist topics in international criminal law in Germany, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and South Africa. In 1999, he was commended by the Government of Quebec for his work with young musicians. A citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom, A citizen of Canada and the United Kingdom, Salim is fluent in French and English, with notions of isiXhosa and Afrikaans.

Christian Ranheim is Programme Director of the ICC Legal Tools Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. He obtained his law degree from the University of Oslo in 1997 with specialisation in international human rights law and international criminal law. He initially worked for a Norwegian human rights NGO and as a legal aid coordinator for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. In 2001 he co-founded and became the first director of the Judicial System Monitoring Programme in East Timor which observed and analysed the trials before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes. In late 2002 and 2003, Christian worked as head of a district office of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission before joining the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights in late 2003. He initially worked as a legal advisor with the Indonesia Programme with focus on capacity building within the field of international criminal law before entering into his current position with the ICC Legal Tools Programme. He has lectured extensively on international law in conflict areas and has carried out Case Matrix competence building activities in several countries, working with state and non-governmental actors.

Joseph Rikhof has received a BCL, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; a LL.B, McGill University; and a Diploma in Air and Space Law, McGill University. He teaches the course International Criminal Law at the University of Ottawa. He is Senior Counsel, Manager of the Law with the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice, Canada. He was a Visiting Professional with the International Criminal Court in 2005 while also serving as Special Counsel and Policy Advisor to the Modern War Crimes Section of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration between 1998 and 2002. His area of expertise lies with the law related to organized crime, terrorism, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in the context of immigration and refugee law. He has written a large number of articles exploring these research interests and has lectured on the same topics in North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Tore Soldal is Assistant Chief of Police and Head of a prosecution group in Oslo Police District. He obtained a law degree from the University of Bergen in 1985 with specialisation in refugee law. Until 1997, he worked as an Assistant Chief of Police in Stavanger Police District, responsible for investigation and prosecution of corruption. From 1997 to 2009, he worked as an investigator and investigation project manager at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He has extensive experience with complex criminal cases, including serious fraud and war crimes leadership cases.

Dr. Vladimir Tochilovsky has more than thirty years experience in criminal justice, including fifteen years on the international level. As a Trial Attorney in the ICTY, he provides legal advice on the jurisprudence of the international tribunals to the trial teams in the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICTY. He has chaired the Indictments Review Committee in the OTP of the ICTY and developed Regulations for the OTP. He was formerly an investigation team leader in the same Office. He served as an official representative of the ICTY to the UN negotiation process to establish the ICC and as an expert who was consulted by the ICC Office of the Prosecutor. Prior to joining the ICTY, he worked for twenty years as a District Procurator and Regional Deputy Procurator for judicial matters in Odessa Region, Ukraine. He has a Ph.D. in criminal procedure from Taras Shevchenko National University, Kiev. He authored numerous publications, including books, on international criminal justice and criminal procedure.

Ilia Utmelidze is a Legal Adviser in the ICC Legal Tools Programme of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. He has previously served as Legal Adviser in the Human Rights Department of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, advising on institution-building in areas such as domestic war crimes prosecution mechanisms (including the development of a national strategy for war crimes prosecution), specialised investigative commissions for Srebrenica and Sarajevo, and the establishment of a single state-level ombudsman institution (2004-). He has also worked for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Azerbaijan with capacity building of local NGOs in the field of human rights protection and advocacy, and been a consultant on development of human rights education and peace programs within the educational system of Azerbaijan (2001-04). He worked for the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights on a minority policy and law research project in 2000-01. He has been involved in Case Matrix-based activities in the Balkans and Scandinavia.

Ms. Marit Vik holds and LLM and LLB from the University of Oslo with a specialization in Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Copyright Law in addition to a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science with specialization International Politics and French. She works as Legal Adviser for the ICC Legal Tools Programme at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. She currently co-ordinates the day to day document uploading and metadata and keyword registration by legal information outsourcing partners, pursuant to instruction from the Legal Tools Project Co-ordinator. She has years of work experience on issues related to copyright- and database law in addition to working as Legal Adviser with the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, Human Rights Adviser to the Secretary General of Amnesty International (Norway) and as Research Assistant to the UN War Crimes Commission for the Former Yugoslavia. In addition to Norwegian she also speaks English and French. Ms. Vik has written articles on the Case Matrix as well as writing the User Manual in both English and French. In addition she has undertaken more than 17 installations for various Case Matrix users in three different continents in addition to demonstrations and training on the use of the Case Matrix.

Dr. Wiley is Director of Tsamota Ltd, a firm specialising in justice- and security-sector capacity-building projects in conflict and post-conflict States. He was with the Iraqi High Tribunal (2006-2008); United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (2005-06); ICC (2003-05); ICTR (2001-02); ICTY (2000-01, 2002-03); Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Office, Department of Justice of Canada (1997-99). He has worked with Case Matrix capacity building in Iraq and the Balkans, both from the perspective of prosecution services and defence counsel.