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Dr. Anne Kaarina Alvesalo-Kuusi, Finland: Anne Kaarina Alvesalo-Kuusi works as a Senior Researcher in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.  Her present research is concentrated on the effects of a new Finnish Act on the contractor’s obligations and liability when work is contracted out.  She has studied extensively the area of crime control and the problems of policing health and safety crimes in Finland.

 Professor Pascal Beauvais, University of Poitiers, France: Pascal Beauvais is currently Professor of Criminal Law, University of Poitiers. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan), holds a Master from Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-po Paris), a DEA in International Economic Law from the University of Paris Sorbonne, a PhD from the University of Paris X Nanterre, and Agregation de Droit Prive. He is the author of articles on European criminal law and has taught at several leading law schools in France.

Professor Cristina de Maglie, University of Pavia, Italy: Cristina de Maglie is Professor of Criminal Law in the University of Pavia (Italy). She is also a fellow of the Institute for Legal Research in the University of California at Berkeley.  She is a member of the scientific board of the review Criminalia and of the Centro Studi Federico Stella and is on the editorial board of the Journal of private international law and procedure.

Mr Neil Foster, University of New Castle, Australia: Neil Foster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Newcastle, NSW. His undergraduate Arts/Law degree was from the University of NSW in Sydney (1982), and he has a research-based LLM from Newcastle (2004). He initially worked in law for the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra in the legal policy area. He also has a Bachelor of Theology degree from the Australian College of Theology, through Moore Theological College in Sydney. He studied and worked in Pakistan from 1993-1995 and taught at the Gujranwala Theological Seminary. Returning to Australia in 1995, he has been teaching law at Newcastle University ever since. He currently teaches Torts, Intellectual Property, and Occupational Health and Safety Law.

Professor James Gobert, University of Essex, UK: Jim Gobert has been a Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Essex since 1989, including a three year term as Dean of the Law School (1989-1992). Before joining Essex, he taught law in the United States for 15 years, with appointments at the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan. In 2008 he was a Visiting Scholar at Brooklyn Law School.

Professor Sheldon Leader, University of Essex, UK: Sheldon teaches and carries out research in jurisprudence; labour and company law; and the links between human rights, international trade, and investment.  He also lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA, and is Chairman of the Pallas Consortium of Universities for European Business Law. His external activities include: Legal Advisor, Amnesty International UK; member of the Advisory Committee of the John Smith Institute; member of Chatham House’s Advisory Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility. Sheldon Leader’s research interests lie in jurisprudence, as well as in economic relations and human rights. Among his recent publications are; "The Collateral Protection of Rights in the World Economy" 2009 New York Law School Law Review, 805, "Freedom and Futures" 2007 Modern Law Review 713, “Human Rights and International Trade” in Understanding the World Trade Organization: Perspectives from Law, Economics and Politics ed. Macrory, P. et al (Springer: 2005) pp. 664-695; ‘Inflating Consent, Inflating Function, and Inserting Human Rights’, in Capitalism and Human Rights eds J. Dine and A. Fagan, (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd: 2005); “Collateralism” in R. Brownsword (ed) Global Governance and the Search for Justice (Hart Publishing: 2005), p. 53-67

Professor Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK: Michael Levi has degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff Universities and has been Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University since 1991. He has been conducting international research on the control of white-collar and organised crime, corruption and money laundering/financing of terrorism since 1972, and has published widely on these subjects as well as editing major journals, including Criminology and Criminal Justice, for which he edited a special issue on organised crime in November 2008. He was granted a D.Sc. (Econ.) from Cardiff University (2007) and elected to the Academy of Social Sciences (2006). In 2007, he was awarded a 3-year Professorial Fellowship by the UK Economic and Social Research Council to develop research on transnational economic and organised crime and on responses to it.

Professor Sheri Markose, University of Essex, UK: Sheri Markose joined the Department of Economics in September 1986. Her research interests, in applied economics, are in financial market modeling under extreme non-Gaussian events, computational mechanism design which uses artificial life models to 'wind tunnel' test proposed market protocols, electronic payments and cashlessness, interbank settlement systems and systemic risk. She is the lead researcher on the Foresight Office of Science and Technology 2006 IIS project on designing Smart Market Protocols for Road Transport Congestion. She will direct research at Essex as part of the €4 million RTN on the Computational Optimization Methods in Statistics, Econometrics and Finance (COMISEF) project. Sheri is the founder Director since 2003 of the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) where she has pioneered postgraduate research and teaching in agent-based computational economics (ACE).
Professor Ingrid Mitgutsch, Linz University, Austria: Ingrid Mitgutsch teaches at Johannes Kepler University Linz, where she is an assistant professor in the Institute for Criminal Law. Prior to her present appointment, she was a legal assistant in the Institute for State Law and Political Sciences (1991 – 1994) and in the Institute for Criminal Law (1994-2005). She regularly gives guest lectures at European universities, most recently Trinity College Dublin and Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania). Her specialist area or interest is criminal law.

 Dr. Ana-Maria Pascal, University of Essex, UK: Ana-Maria Pascal has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2005) and an MBA with specialisation in International Finance (2006). Until 2009 she was the UK Director of the Centre for Corporate Accountability, a London-based NGO promoting health and safety law enforcement. In the early 2000’s, she taught philosophy at Petre Andrei University (Romania) and was a research fellow at New School University (New York). She is now a senior researcher at the School of Law, University of Essex. Her main research interests are in corporate crime, jurisprudence, ethics, hermeneutics, and political philosophy. She has recently published a book on Pragmatism and "the End" of Metaphysics (2009). 

Professor Maurice Punch, Kings College, UK:  Maurice Punch has taught at Essex University, University of Utrecht, State University of New York (SUNY) Albany and Nyenrode University (The Netherlands Business School). In the Netherlands (where he has lived since 1975) he has researched corporate crime, regulation and control in business and deviance, corruption, integrity and reform of the police organisation. In 1999 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology where he teaches primarily in the areas of policing and of corporate crime, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London.

Professor Klaus Rogall, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany: Klaus Rogall studied law at the University of Bonn from 1969 to 1974, passed his First State Examination in 1974 and obtained his doctor´s degree in 1976. In 1977 he passed his Second State Examination. From 1974 until 1978 he was employed as a research assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Bonn. In 1978 he was appointed public official at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn. He served as a counselor (Referent) until 1987. Professor Rogall attained his habilitation in 1986. Klauss Rogall was a Professor at the University of Cologne (1987-1990). He became Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1990, where he also served as Deputy Dean from 2004 to 2006 and Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2006 to 2007.

Professor Rick Sarre, University of South Australia: Rick Sarre is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the University of South Australia, where he served as the Head of the School of Law and Legal Practice from 1992 to 1998. He currently lectures in criminal justice, policing, media law, sport law and commercial law with the School of Commerce. His qualifications include an undergraduate degree in law (Adelaide University), undergraduate studies in religion and sociology (Graceland University, Iowa, USA), and post-graduate degrees in criminology (University of Toronto, Canada) and law (University of Canberra, ACT). He was Visiting Library Fellow, Newhouse Center, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA in 1990, spent time with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Hong Kong and Australian Lawyers for Refugees Port Hedland in 1992, was Visiting Professor at Graceland University, Iowa in 1997 and was Visiting Research Professor at Umeå University, Sweden in 2004. He received a Citation from the Australian Learning & Teaching Council in 2008.

Professor Prem Sikka, University of Essex, UK: Prem Sikka is Professor of Accounting and Newsletter Editor at the Essex Business School. He holds a BA (Hons.) from Open University FCCA, an MSc (University of London), and a Ph.D. (University of Sheffield. His research interests include: Accounting, crime and racism; auditor regulation; governance of the UK accountancy profession; corporate governance; the accountancy profession and the state-profession relationship; insolvency; globalization; tax havens; corporate social responsibility. Prem Sikka is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.
Professor Laureen Snider, Queen’s University, Canada: Laureen Snider is a Professor of Sociology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Her major research interests are in corporate crime and regulation. Recent articles include an examination of regulatory responses to the 2002 stock market meltdown (Social & Legal Studies, 2009: 18:179-97), a study of government attempts to strengthen criminal corporate liability (Bittle & Snider, Journal of Law & Policy, 2006: 28 (4): 470-97); and an analysis of water privatization and its subsequent re-regulation following a major poisoning disaster (Social and Legal Studies, 5 (2): 27-47).
Dr. Deividas Soloveicikas, Vilnius University, Lithuania: Dr. Soloveičikas has a Master (2001) and a Ph.D. of Law (2005) at Vilnius University. He also studied at the Faculty of Law of Lund University, Sweden (1999), continuing his studies at the University of Essex, England, where he obtained the degree of Master of Law (LL.M) in European Community Law (2004). In 2004 – 2005, Dr. Soloveičikas was a reader in International Comparative Company Law at Vilnius University. In 2004 – 2007, he was a reader in Business Law at the ISM University of Management and Economics. In 2005 - 2008 Dr. Soloveičikas taught European Community Law at the University of Mykolas Romeris, and from 2008, he taught public procurement at Vilnius University Faculty of Laws. Dr. Soloveičikas is a member of Lithuanian Bar Association.

Professor Nigel South, University of Essex, UK: Nigel South is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Following roles as Director of the Health and Social Services Institute and then Head of the Department of Health and Human Sciences, he is now Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic and Regional Development). He taught at various universities in London and New York. He has previously served on the editorial boards of Sociology, The International Journal of Drug Policy, and The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, and continues to serve on the board of Critical Criminology and as an Associate Editor of the USA journal, Deviant Behavior. His research interests include: illegal and legal drug use, related health and crime issues, drug treatment programs involving vocational and educational opportunities, drugs (and wider) illicit markets; crime, inequalities and citizenship; the environment and related health and crime issues; theoretical and comparative criminology; public health; and interdisciplinary health and community safety initiatives. Recent books include Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (with E. Carrabine, P. Iganski, M. Lee and K. Plummer), 2004, Routledge; Drug Use and Cultural Contexts - Beyond the West (with R. Coomber, eds.), 2004, Free Association Books; Crime in Modern Britain (with E. Carrabine, P. Cox and M. Lee), 2002, Oxford University Press.


Mr Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, UK: Keir Starmer was educated at Reigate Grammar School, University of Leeds, and St Edmunds Hall, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1987, and became a Queen’s Counsel in 2002. He served as joint head of Doughty Street Chambers before taking up his current post as Head of the CPS and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in November 2008.

Professor Steve Tombs, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK: Steve Tombs has been a Professor of Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University since 1992.  Previously he worked at the University of Wolverhampton, where he completed his doctorate examining the Management and Regulation of Safety in the UK Chemicals Industries. His current main teaching areas are corporate crime, regulation, epistemology and methods in criminology, human rights, and criminological theory. His main research interests are around the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate crime, and in particular the regulation and management of health and safety at work. His other main, current research interest is in the Politics of Knowledge.

Professor Celia Wells, Bristol University, UK: Celia Wells graduated from Warwick University in 1971 and took a Masters in Law at London University in 1973. After 20 years at Cardiff University, she taught at Durham University from 2006-8, before joining Bristol as Professor of Criminal Law in January 2009.  She was awarded the OBE for services to legal education in 2006 and was President of the Society of Legal Scholars of Great Britain and Ireland in 2006-7. She was Chair of the law panel for RAE 2008 (Research Assessment Exercise) and is a member of the Bar Standards Board Education and Training Committee.

Dr. David Whyte, University of Liverpool, UK: David Whyte is a Reader in Sociology at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool. He has a particular interest in corporate crime and regulation. He is the author of Crimes of the Powerful: a reader (Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2009), Safety Crimes (with Steve Tombs) (Willan, Cullompton, 2007), Unmasking Crimes of the Powerful (Peter Lang, 2003). He was a member of the Scottish Executive Expert Committee on Corporate Homicide and a member of the Board of the Centre for Corporate Accountability, a human rights charity based in London.