Dr. Olympia Bekou is Associate Professor 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. She has undertaken CMN missions to several countries, including the DRC.

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. 

Dr. Seena Fazel is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He is an international authority on the mental health of prisoners, their suicide risk, and the relationship between severe mental illness and violence. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, before training in psychiatry at Oxford. He is currently assistant editor of the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. He can provide advice on the use of psychiatric expertise in core international crimes justice processes.

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.

Emilie Hunter is a Researcher at the European University Institute Law Department in Florence where she works on new forms of assistance between the International Criminal Court and national forums. She is a Fellow of the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, where she was Research and Programmes Coordinator between 2007-2009. Emilie has worked for the UN in Iraq, with judiciaries and government agencies in Iran, Iraq, Kaliningrad, Malaysia, México and Thailand and NGOs in China, Iraq, México and Spain on criminal law (national and international) and international human rights standards. She is experienced in designing and implementing bespoke capacity building and knowledge transfer activities, and between 2005-2009, oversaw the creation and development of the National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) of the ICC Legal Tools Project.

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 Legal Officer (LO) in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). As the LO to Appeal Judge Fausto Pocar, she works not only on ICTY cases but also on International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) cases. She was formerly a Board Member of TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) and co-directed together with Elisabeth Baumgartner the Legal Tools Project, which TRIAL joined as an outsourcing partner (2008-2010). 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, Judge's Assistant at the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT) and Assistant to the Swiss Delegation for the United Nations Human Rights Commission. She 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 Prosecutor of the 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 and was published as a book. She has published on various international criminal law issues, including on the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).

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.

Dr. Patrick Treanor retired in 2009 as Senior Research Office and Team Leader, Office of the Prosecutor of the Inter-national Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1994-2009). He led the analysis team of that Office with more than 30 staff. Prior to that, he was, inter alia, Historian and (after January 1989) Senior Historian, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice (1980-1994); Intelligence Analyst, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress (1977-1980). He holds an A.B. with Honors in Russian from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA; M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, Yale University Graduate School; and a Ph.D. in Bulgarian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He knows eight languages. He has served as an expert witness in several cases before the Yugoslavia Tribunal, most recently in the Karadzic case.

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.