Mr. Cai is the Deputy Director General of the Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China. He holds a Master's degree (Master of Business and Management) from The University of Nottingham, UK. He joined the Ministry of Supervision in 1996. Mr. Cai has previously been Director of International Cooperation Department and Asset Recovery Department. Between 2004 and 2005, he was the Vice Secretary of County Party Committee of Hongya County of Sichuan Province. In 2014, he was appointed Chairman of APEC Anticorruption and Transparency Working Group. In 2016, Mr. Cai was appointed the Chairman of G20 Anticorruption Working Group. Since 2014, Mr. Cai was the group leader of the China delegation in the U.S.-China Joint Liaison Group on Law Enforcement Cooperation (JLG). Since 2016, he was appointed a distinguished research fellow of Research Center on International Cooperation Regarding Persons Sought for Corruption and Asset Recovery in G20 Member States.

After 25 years of prosecuting and defending at the Criminal Bar, Mr. Green was appointed the first Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions in April 2005. He headed the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office from its launch until the department was merged with the Crown Prosecution Service in January 2010.

Mr. Green returned to the Bar in April 2011. He was appointed Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 21 April 2012.

Mr. Green was called to the Bar in 1979; appointed Recorder in 1996 and took silk in 2000. He was appointed CB in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2011.

Guo Xingwang, male, born in 1965. Mr. Guo earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Beijing Normal University, and his Ph.D in Law from Peking University. After working in the Research Office and the Research Development Center of the State Council, he began to work in the Supreme People’s Procuratorate from 2005, and took up the temporary appointment as Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate in 2014. He is now the Director General of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of P.R.China.

Mr. Vlassis holds a law degree from the University of Athens (Greece) and an LL.M. (Master of Laws) from the University of Miami (U.S.A.). He has pursued postgraduate studies in international law at the George Washington University. He is licensed to practise law in Greece and member of the Athens Bar Association.

Mr. Vlassis was recruited in 1989 following the successful completion of the United Nations National Competitive Examination, working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since.

From 1998 to 2003, he was Secretary of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Elaboration of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and from 2004 to 2008 the Secretary of the Conference of the States Parties to that Convention.

From 2001 to 2003, he was Secretary of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption. Mr. Vlassis is currently Secretary of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention.

As Chief of the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch, he leads UNODC’s work on action against corruption and other forms of economic crime. Mr. Vlassis is the Officer-in-Charge of the Division for Treaty Affairs.

Mr. Vlassis is married and has two children.

Mr. Yeung was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on 9 September 2013. He was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1987. Since 1988, he had been in private practice as barrister in Hong Kong until his appointment as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2013. In 2009, he was appointed Senior Counsel. He sat as Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court between January and February 2013. Mr. Yeung specialized in commercial crime and securities related matters.

Mr. Yeung had been actively involved in various public (legal and non-legal) services. He had been extensively involved in various areas of the work of the Bar Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association. He was a Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar in 2010. He had also had longstanding involvement in different public services. More recent public services included Chairman, Non-local Higher and Professional Education Appeal Board; Deputy Chairman, Appeal Board Panel (Town Planning); Member, Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Board; Member, Dumping at Sea Appeal Board Panel and Waste Disposal Appeal Board Panel; and Chairman, Appeal Tribunal (Buildings).

Mr. Au is the Special Advisor of BDO Limited, the Hong Kong member firm of BDO International Limited, the fifth largest accountancy network in the world.

Mr. Au is the Chairman of the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee and a member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption, Independent Commission Against Corruption. He serves as a member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority, a Nonexecutive Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Securities & Futures Commission and the Chairman of the Professional Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Coalition of Professional Services Limited, an Independent non-executive director of the Hong Kong International Theme Parks Limited, an Independent nonexecutive director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Café de Coral Holdings Limited.

Mr. Au was the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 2008.

Mr. Au is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Society of Chinese Accountants & Auditors.

Dr. Daams joined the Basel Institute on Governance’s International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) as Head of Legal and Case Consultancy on 1 January 2016.

Prior to that she was a federal prosecutor for economic crimes in the office of the Attorney General of Switzerland. In this capacity she focused on international cases of foreign bribery, money laundering, related financial crimes and international mutual legal assistance. Dr. Daams has been a delegate to the OECD’s Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions for 17 years. In addition she has been the vice-chair of this group, member of its management group and chaired the informal meetings of law enforcement officials from 2008-2015.

Dr. Daams teaches mutual legal assistance in criminal matters at the Law Faculty of the University of Bern and the Swiss Bar Association.

Dr. Daams holds various law degrees from European universities, including a doctorate in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure from the University of Basel Switzerland. She was admitted to the Dutch Bar and practised in the Netherlands before relocating to Switzerland.

Professor Young is Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong and a practicing barrister at Parkside Chambers. Previously he was counsel in the Crown Law Office-Criminal of the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario, where he authored the province’s first proceeds of crime manual for prosecutors and police. In 2014 he was junior counsel to Hong Kong’s Director of Public Prosecutions in two major money laundering cases argued in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal. He led a contract research project on bribery laws commissioned by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption and has been leading the Department of Justice Prosecutions Division’s continuing legal education programme since 2011. His edited book, Civil Forfeiture of Criminal Property (Edward Elgar 2009), and article, “Why Civil Actions Against Corruption?” (2009) 16 J Fin Crime 144, are often cited by courts, practitioners and scholars.

Professor Young has taught courses on money laundering, corruption, white collar crime and asset recovery at The University of Hong Kong, the University of Macau and in the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law. He currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law (Brill).

Mr. Broad is a senior manager in the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and is the first head of the new International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre.

Mr. Broad previously worked in the NCA’s International Corruption Unit – leading investigations into politically exposed persons involved in international bribery and corruption offences.

Mr. Chu graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1975 and became a secondary school teacher. He joined the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in 1978 as an Investigator, and was promoted through the ranks to Assistant Director in 2005. In 2010 Mr Chu was head-hunted to join the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) as its first Secretary-General after it became a statutory organization. In August 2016 Mr Chu returned to ICAC to take up his current post as the Director of Investigation (Private Sector).

Academically, Mr Chu holds two bachelor degrees including an LLB. During his service with the ICAC, Mr Chu had received extensive professional trainings with the Hong Kong Police, Metropolitan Police of the United Kingdom, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States. He had also represented the ICAC and the IPCC to speak in a number of overseas and local forums on corruption and related law enforcement issues.

Mr. McDonell is currently the Executive Director of ACAMS (the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) and a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board. He is also the Co-Director of the Tax and Governance Program in the Global Tax Policy Centre at WU University Vienna. The program is focused on regulatory compliance and operational implementation of tax and money laundering standards in Africa.

Mr. McDonell has many years of direct experience working with regional bodies, which gives him a unique global perspective on AML and financial crime challenges.

He was the Executive Secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2007 until the end of 2015. Under his leadership the FATF revised its standards, developed a new standardized country assessment methodology and expanded the FATF Global Network to nine FATF-style regional bodies. Prior to this role, he worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime where he was chief of the U.N. Global Programme on Money Laundering. Previously, Mr. McDonell established the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering and became its first Executive Secretary.

He is a lawyer by training and has had extensive experience as a federal prosecutor and in conducting complex investigations, including being in charge of many multidisciplinary investigation task forces into organized crime cases both nationally and internationally. He also has had experience in private legal practice and as a university lecturer.

The former Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit of the FBI in Washington, D.C., he was responsible for economic crime program management of all 56 FBI field offices. He oversaw efforts against corporate, securities, insurance, mass marketing and other complex financial crime and played a key role in embedding FBI agents for the first time at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to improve intelligence sharing and case referrals. He also served as Supervisory Special Agent and Coordinator of the White Collar Crime Program at the FBI’s Miami field office where he led efforts against corporate and securities fraud in South Florida. Now, as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, he oversees investigations targeting International Corruption, Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, and Financial Crime.

Mr. Mohd Azwan B. Ramli received his education in Malaysia. In 2010, he joined the Certified Financial Investigator Programme (Anti Money Laundering Investigation Modules), which was endorsed by the National Coordinating Committee to Combat Money Laundering overseen by the Bank Negara Malaysia. During the programme, he was attached to various financial institutions over a period of time. In 2010, Mr. Mohd Azwan B. Ramli became a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist. In 2015, he was further accredited as a Graduate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and an Associate Member of Certified Fraud Examiner.

Mr. Mohd Azwan B. Ramli had accumulated solid experience in the banking industry at the managerial level before 2006, when he joined the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) [formerly known as Anti-Corruption Agency of Malaysia] as an Investigation Officer of the rank Superintendent responsible for investigating all offences under Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (inclusive of prescribed offences such as the Penal Code, Custom Act, Immigration Act, etc.) and Anti Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing Act 2001. In mid 2010, he was appointed a Senior Superintendent and entrusted to lead the Special Project Branch under the Intelligence Division of MACC, targeting mostly at public-interest syndicated corruption cases. In February 2015, he was promoted to Assistant Commissioner in a Special Project Branch. Proactive investigation conducted by Special Project Branch contributed to the success of the organization in combating corruption by penetrating syndicated cases and resulted in escalation of MACC statistics. In January 2017, he was promoted to Senior Assistant Commissioner and entrusted to act as Head of Sector in Anti Money Laundering Division, MACC till present.

Mr van der Kaaij is the Inspector General of the European Investment Bank (EIB). In 2002 he became a Member of the Board of Directors of the EIB and assumed the post of Inspector General in 2007. In this position, he is responsible for Anti-Fraud & Anti-Corruption matters, Operations Evaluation as well as the external Complaints Mechanism. He carries 25 years of professional experience garnered from appointments which encompass working seven years in Washington DC in the posts of Executive Director of the World Bank; Executive Director, Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC); Financial Counsellor at the Royal Netherlands Embassy; and Advisor to the Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. Previous posts also include Deputy Director Foreign Financial Relations Directorate at the Ministry of Finance, The Hague; Member of the Administrative Council for The Netherlands of the Council of Europe Development Bank, Paris; Head of Multilateral Banks Division of the Ministry of Finance, The Hague; and Economist at “De Nederlandsche Bank” (central bank of the Netherlands), Amsterdam.

Mr van der Kaaij is a Dutch national. Mr. van der Kaaij attained a Master’s degree in History from the University of Groningen in 1985, specialising in ‘Contemporary and Economic History’. He has published articles on Evaluation issues, EMU, IMF and “De Nederlandsche Bank”.

Mr. Walsh is currently Deputy Law Officer of the International Law Division of the Department of Justice, HKSAR and Head of the Central Authority for international cooperation in criminal matters. Mr. Walsh leads negotiations on behalf of the HKSAR Government for bilateral agreements on international cooperation and advises on the application of multilateral penal conventions to the HKSAR, such as the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, as well as a range of policy issues affecting international criminal justice.

Mr. Walsh participates as a representative of Hong Kong, China in the work of the Financial Action Task Force Against Money Laundering and is a contributing editor to the text ‘Archbold Hong Kong Criminal Law Pleadings Evidence & Practice’. He appears as an advocate in the Hong Kong courts on behalf of foreign governments in cases involving fugitive offenders, proceeds of crime and other forms of mutual legal assistance and is a regular speaker at international conferences and seminars on international cooperation.

Mr. Walsh holds degrees in Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and Master of Laws (Honours). He is admitted to practice in both Hong Kong and New Zealand and was appointed silk in 2015.

Mr. Wong was appointed Director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in October 2013 to lead the Bureau in the anti-corruption fight in Singapore. He is responsible for spearheading CPIB’s mission to combat corruption through swift and sure, firm but fair action.

Mr. Wong graduated with a First Class Honours in Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University on a Singapore Government Local Merit Scholarship and joined the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in 1995. He was appointed a Foreign Fellow under the Fulbright Programme in 2003 and graduated from the Harvard Business School with a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in 2005.

Mr. Wong held many appointments within the public service since he started his career 20 years ago. His last appointment was the Chief Executive Officer of the Workforce Development Agency (WDA), which is responsible to lead, drive and champion workforce development, enhancing the employability and competitiveness of Singapore's workforce.

During his tenure with the Singapore Police Force, Mr. Wong held several key appointments such as the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Policy), Director of Operations, Commander of Bedok Police Division and Commander of Police Training Command. He also has had a stint at the Ministry of Finance, serving as Assistant Director (Infrastructure and Economy).

In addition to his day-to-day work, Mr. Wong has found time to contribute to the community through his involvement with the Board of Singapore Land Authority (SLA) from August 2010 to July 2016.