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. She has conducted a number of CMN missions. Languages: English, German, French, Spanish.

Eugène Bakama Bope holds a law degree from the Protestant University of Congo (DRC), a master degree in human rights (University Saint Louis, Belgium). He was working as an expert and researcher for the "Commission permanent de réfome du droit congolais" (Ministère de la justice Kinshasa). He is chairman of the "Club des amis du droit du Congo". He is also a Consultant for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR). He is a member of the "Academie africaine de théorie du droit". He has written several articles on the impact of ICC in the DRC.

Enrique Carnero-Rojo holds a master's degree in law and economics from the University of Deusto (Spain) and an LL.M. degree in Public International Law (with International Criminal Law specialization) from Leiden University (The Netherlands). After working in the Appeals Section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Enrique served in the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2004 to 2009. During his time at the ICC he assisted in the development of the Case Matrix and the other Legal Tools, inter alia by acting as secretary of the ICC Legal Tools Advisory Committee and conducting visits to relevant partner organisations. Since 2010 he is working full time on a PhD thesis on international criminal law at Utrecht University. He has lectured on specialist topics in international criminal law in Argentina, England, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, The Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates. He is fluent in Spanish, English and, to a more limited extent, French.

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.

Khondoker Mehdi Maswood is currently serving as a Senior Consultant of International Crime Tribunal-Bangladesh (ICT-BD), Judicial Administration Training Institute (JATI), Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission (BJSC), Legal Aid Project Bangladesh and Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Bangladesh. He earned his master's degree from the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka. He has obtained various national and international certifications in the arena of computer science and software administration. Mr. Maswood has trained more than 2,000 sitting judges and magistrates as well as more than 500 public prosecutors and government pleaders of Bangladesh. He also trained more than 1,000 court support staff. He has provided training on the Case Matrix. He has developed the database software Case Management System (CMS), the Court Cause List Display Database System, and the Monitoring Database Tool (MDT) for DANIDA-HRGG. He has provided various databases and dynamic websites for government and private organizations.

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, Salim is fluent in French and English, with notions of isiXhosa and Afrikaans.

Elisa Novic is a Ph.D. candidate at the Law Department of the European University Institute, where she works on the concept of cultural genocide, considering in particular the intentional destruction of groups' culture in international law. She holds Masters degrees in both European Law and International Relations from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked as a Program Assistant at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) in Brussels, where she had previously served as a Research Intern within the Afghanistan program. She has also gained professional experience in the diplomatic field through various internships; namely, at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United Nations in New York and at the Political Chancery of the French Embassy to the Republic of Korea. She is a native French-speaker, is fluent in English and Italian and has basic knowledge of Spanish.

Benson Chinedu Olugbuo is a Teaching and Research Assistant and PhD candidate in the Public Law Department of the University of Cape Town.  He is the UCT Team Advisor for the 2011 Phillip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Before joining UCT, he was the Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator for the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (2004-2009) where he led the campaign for the ratification and domestic implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the ICC (APIC) in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has participated in the meetings of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC since 2004 and was a delegate to the Review Conference of the ICC in Kampala in 2010. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Pretoria, an LL.B from the University of Nigeria and is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Aleksandra Sidorenko holds a law degree from the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), a master degree in Information and Communication Technologies Law (University of Oslo), and is currently undertaking the LL.M. programme in public international law at the University of Oslo. She has working experience from a law firm and several development projects in Kyrgyzstan. While studying in Norway, she has done research in legal information retrieval and prepared several publications. She works as a Research Assistant at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights of the University of Oslo.