Mr Nelson Chow was appointed the present position on 1 September 2016 with responsibilities for facilitating the healthy development of the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong and promoting Hong Kong as a fintech hub in Asia. He joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in 2004 and was responsible for the supervision of banks' technology risk management and business continuity planning as well as the formulation of related policies and guidelines. He was the Deputy Chief Representative of the New York Office in 2010. After returning to Hong Kong in 2013, he took up responsibilities to supervise banks' operational risk management and perform macro-prudential data analysis. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Chow was Vice President of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. responsible for information risk management of the Asia Pacific region. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Auckland and a Master of Science degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Ms Gretta Fenner is the Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance (the Basel Institute) and in this role also holds the position of Director of the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery.

The Basel Institute is an international not-for-profit competence centre dedicated to combating corruption and related financial crime. This mission is operationalised through four specialised multidisciplinary teams focused on the recovery of stolen assets; corruption prevention and governance; anticorruption collective action; and compliance and corporate governance. In addition, the Basel Institute hosts a cross-divisional team focused on reducing illegal wildlife trafficking through a financial crime lens. In these areas of work, the Basel Institute implements capacity building programmes and provides case specific, legal and policy advice, conducts applied research and has developed innovative tools to support anti-corruption practitioners. The Basel Institute teams through country offices in Latin America and Africa and with experts based at headquarters in support of projects in Asia and across the rest of the world.

Ms Fenner is a political scientist by training and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and the Paris Institute for Political Science, France (commonly referred to as Sciences Po), as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the Graduate School of Business, Curtin University, Australia.

Ms Cynthia Gabriel is easily recognised as a key advocate of human rights and good governance in Malaysia. She has spent most of her professional life advancing democratic freedoms, reforms and policy change and was recently conferred the prestigious Democracy Award by the National Endowment for Democracy for her brave activism and untiring contributions. She has also been appointed into the powerful 1Malyasia Development Berhad Special Committee by the Council of Eminent Persons, as well as to the national council to develop an anti-corruption plan that will report directly to the Prime Minister.

Ms Gabriel was elected as Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights for 2004-2009. She co-founded the Asia Forum for Human Rights and Development human rights network, and is currently an elected board member of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption coalition. Ms Gabriel has extensive networks with local and global media, and has been featured on prime time news and documentaries in the CNN, BBC World, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, Washington Post, to name a few, as a leading human rights advocate and whistleblower on corruption scandals involving Malaysia's political leadership.

In 2014, Ms Gabriel co-founded the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) and is now its Executive Director. She was also appointed as City Councilor, under the professional/non-governmental organization categories from 2008 to 2015.

Ms Gabriel holds degrees in both science and legal fraternities. She has spent brief stints in the private sector working as a contractual lecturer in Monash University, and collaborated with several United Nations initiatives on research work in the fields of democracy, human rights, governance, organised crime and anti-corruption.

Mr Blair Glencorse is leading a movement for accountability and integrity around the world through the Accountability Lab (the Lab). The Lab works in communities to make governments more accountable and to open-up civic space using arts, media, culture and technology. Mr Glencorse and his team have done everything from helping to found the first film school in Liberia to monitoring and improving public services in Pakistan to running a global television show called Integrity Idol to "name and fame" honest government officials. The Lab recently won the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award. Mr Glencorse is also the co-founder of the first co-working and innovation space in Liberia and both TEDxMonrovia and TEDxBamako; and an expert on anti-corruption with the World Economic Forum. Mr Glencorse speaks regularly on issues of community engagement, leadership, citizen participation and governance; and his work has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy and the Guardian among other outlets.

Mr Ho Wai-chi is currently the Director of Community Relations Department (CRD) of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and is responsible for leading the department in educating the public against the evils of corruption; and enlisting and fostering public support in combating corruption. He joined the ICAC in 2011 as Assistant Director of CRD and was later posted to Administration Branch and Corruption Prevention Department to take up various directorate duties.

Prior to joining the ICAC, Mr Ho served in the non-profit sector for nearly 30 years with experience in managing public campaigns on issues like global warming, HIV/AIDS awareness, global poverty alleviation, fair trade and social development in the third world.

Mr Ho graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and University of Sussex with a Master of Arts degree in Social and Political Thought.

Mr Joe Lee joined the Corruption Prevention Department (CPD) of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in 1994 after having served in the Government, the Hospital Authority and the private sector for seven years mainly in the IT function. During his ICAC career, he rose through the ranks to Chief Corruption Prevention Officer in 1997, Principal Corruption Prevention Officer in 2006, cross-posted to the Administration Branch as Assistant Director in 2017. He then served as Assistant Director of CPD, and started acting in the current post this year to lead CPD's corruption prevention work and initiatives. Mr Lee has extensive experience in advising organisations in the public and private sectors on corruption prevention systems and controls. Mr Lee is a Certified Internal Auditor and a member of the Hong Kong Computer Society. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, a Master of Business Administration degree from Durham University, and a Master of Corporate Governance degree from the Open University of Hong Kong.

Mr Donald Mak is the Assistant Government Chief Information Officer (IT Infrastructure), responsible for planning, development and management of Government IT infrastructure, e-Government application architecture, central platform facilities, e-Government service portal GovHK and related services for providing e-Government services to the public. He is also playing a critical role in facilitating Government bureaux/departments in the opening up of government data for public use through the Public Sector Information Portal (data.gov.hk) and the implementation of Big Data Analytic Platform for scientific research, innovation and smart city development.

Mr Mak joined the Government in 1989. Since then he has assumed various important duties including formulation and implementation of facilitation strategy and initiatives for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) industry development, data centre development, digital inclusion, ICT co-operation with the Mainland and overseas economies as well as the implementation and management of various government ICT systems and services.

Eng. Martin Manuhwa is the Vice President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) and he chairs its Committee on Anti-Corruption. He is the President of the Federation of African Engineering Organisations, a Councilor with the Zimbabwe Higher Education Council and sits in various engineering faculty advisory boards in Zimbabwe and Southern African Development Community. He is a past Chairman of the Engineering Council of Zimbabwe, past President of the Southern African Federation of Engineering Organisations and the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers, and past Chair of the Electrical and Mechanical Industry Sector Committee for National Manpower Advisory Council.

Eng. Manuhwa has delivered various infrastructure papers at World Energy Forum in China, the OECD in London, World Engineering Conferences in Japan and Switzerland, the African Union and the Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom, etc. He has received numerous awards, including the SKF service to engineering award.

He is an electrical and energy consultant engineer. His engineering practice is in energy, construction projects, worksite project implementation and management. He is currently a Doctoral Associate at the University of Cape Town with research interest in the use of Management Information Systems (MIS) in construction and project management. He has taught MIS at the graduate school of the University of Zimbabwe and the Bindura University of Science Education.

Eng. Manuhwa is Managing Consultant of the Zimbabwe Africa Infrastructure Development Group, a company that specialises in engineering procurement and construction projects.

Tan Sri Haji Abu Kassim bin Mohamed is presently the Director General at the National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption, Malaysia.

Mr Abu Kassim joined the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), Malaysia in 1984 and had risen through the ranks starting as an Investigation Officer to Deputy Director General in-charge of ACA's operations. He also had a stint with the private sector when he was seconded to a government link entity Amanah Raya Berhad as Chief Integrity Officer. In 2010, he was appointed as Chief Commissioner of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), a position he held till July 2016. After his tenure ended, he acted as the Consultant and Advisor at the Centre for Governance and Integrity at MARA University of Technology, Shah Alam, Malaysia till May 2018.

Besides remarkable career progression at ACA/MACC, Mr Abu Kassim also participated in numerous anticorruption activities and networks. He is/was a member of the INTERPOL Group of Experts on Corruption, an executive committee member of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities, and a committee member of the Sheikh Tamim Al Thani Anti-Corruption Excellence Award.

On the academic side, he has been a member of the Board of Governors for the International Anti-Corruption Academy since 2012 and its faculty member. He was also an Adjunct Professor at University Industry Selangor, Malaysia, and was a Board Director of the Institute Integrity Malaysia.

For his excellent contribution to the nation especially in anti-corruption and management, Mr Abu Kassim was conferred the title of Datukship by the ruler (Sultanate) of States in Malaysia and the title of Tan Sri by the King.

Ms Carolyn Nixon leads the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) corruption prevention and intelligence assessment practice.

Ms Nixon has public sector, integrity and law enforcement agency experience, including in key Australian Government law enforcement and integrity agencies – CrimTrac (where she served as Chief of Staff) and ACLEI. She is the convenor of ACLEI's Community of Practice for Corruption Prevention, a standing forum of integrity framework designers and anti-corruption practitioners from Australian Government law enforcement agencies.

Ms Nixon holds a Bachelor's degree in Education (Deakin University), a Certificate in Training Practice (United Kingdom) and a Master's degree in Strategic Human Resource Management (Charles Sturt University). She completed the International Anti-Corruption Academy summer programme in Vienna in 2013 and represented the Australian Government in November 2015 as a member of the delegation to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in St Petersburg, and as a speaker at the 2018 APEC Best Fit Practices and Experience Sharing Workshop on Corruption Prevention Mechanisms in APEC Economies in Papua New Guinea. In 2017, Ms Nixon was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study international corruption prevention practices.

H.E. Ellen Gracie Northfleet is an attorney in private practice and arbitrator in Rio de Janeiro.

Her previous professional activities include periods when she acted as Federal Attorney (Ministério Público Federal) between 1973 and 1989; as Judge of the Federal Court of Appeals (Tribunal Regional Federal da 4ª Região) between 1989 and 2000 and Chief Judge of that same Court from 1997 to 1999; as Justice of the Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal) between 2000 and 2001 and Chief Justice of the same Court from 2006 to 2008, as well as Presiding Judge of the National Justice Council (Conselho Nacional de Justiça). She is the author of an extensive range of decisions of national impact.

Justice Northfleet has received some of the highest decorations and distinguished awards for her public service.

She holds a Law degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. She also made post-graduate studies in Social Anthropology at the same University, and has studied Administration of Justice at American University (Washington, DC), as a fellow of the Fulbright Programme.

Justice Northfleet is described as a major reformer of the Brazilian Judicial System, having worked in the adoption of computerised models for case filing and management; in the introduction of the Stare Decisis system in a Civil Law jurisdiction; and in the increased use of alternative dispute resolution.

She currently serves on the Legal Board of the Federation of Industries of São Paulo – FIESP and acts as Vice President of the Arbitration Chamber of that institution. She also serves on the Board of several Brazilian companies and on the Board of Directors of World Justice Project.

Ms Julie Read is the Chief Executive and Director of the Serious Fraud Office. She was appointed in October 2013.

Ms Read is a lawyer who was a prosecutor with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in Australia for 13 years. In 2002, she accepted a statutory appointment as Regional Commissioner for Tasmania with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), and concurrently held a number of other national roles with ASIC at the Senior Executive level, including Special Counsel, Litigation, responsible for the conduct of major litigation for ASIC and prior to that Senior Executive, Major Fraud and International. Ms Read studied Law at the University of Tasmania.

Ms Milica Šarić became the Editor-in-chief of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) in October 2018 having worked as an investigative journalist and a fact-checker for CINS since 2012. She has investigated money laundering, botched privatisations, energy issues, private security, financing of political parties and judiciary. Ms Šarić was nominated for the 2016 Annual National Investigative Journalism Award in Serbia for revealing shady financing of the ruling Serbian political party. In 2017, she received the European Union award for the best young investigative journalist in Serbia, for stories about problems in building a new block of the thermal power plant Kostolac B and its effect on inhabitants of a nearby settlement. She was part of the CINS investigative team that won the 2017 European Press Prize for investigative journalism, the World Justice Project Anthony Lewis Prize for Exceptional Rule of Law Journalism, and many other awards. As a fact-checker on cross-border projects, she contributes to Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and acts as an external associate for the International Fact-Checking Network. Ms Šarić was a co-author of publications on free access to information, private security and fact-checking. As a trainer, she conducts trainings on fact-checking and investigative journalism skills. She has mentored many journalists in their investigations within CINS training programmes. With creative inputs and communication with developers, she contributed to the creation of the first online game on the topic of corruption in public procurement in Serbia – The good, the bad, and the corrupt and participated in the CINS multimedia project The Truth about 24 Cases.

Ms Mari-Liis Sööt is the main architect of the Estonian anti-corruption policy including the current and two previous anti-corruption strategies, various corruption studies, prevention and awareness raising materials and dedicated web-page (www.korruptsioon.ee). She is also a co-author of the Anti-Corruption Act.

Ms Sööt has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, her thesis is about corruption. As a believer in evidence-based policy, she is the founder of the Analysis Division of the Criminal Policy Department of the Ministry of Justice, which is the cornerstone of criminal policy planning in Estonia. She believes in creative, flexible and citizen-oriented governance. Paraphrasing Edmund Burke, she thinks that the reason why bad things happen in society is because good people do nothing. Besides she is an organiser of TEDx inspiration conference (www.tedxtallinnavangla.ee), a jury member of the Albanian corruption film festival, head of the Group of States against Corruption delegation to Estonia and many other important society-changing activities.

Prior to his appointment as the Commissioner of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in December 2015, Dr Laode M Syarif was a senior lecturer at Hasanuddin University Law School in Makassar. He graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree at the Law Faculty of Hasanuddin University and received his Master of Law degree from the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, while his Doctor of Philosophy degree was obtained from Sydney University, School of Law with a specialisation in International Environmental Law.

In addition to being a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Hasanuddin University, he was also active as a guest speaker/lecturer at Sydney University Law School, National University of Singapore Law School, Cebu University Law School, and the University of South Pacific in Vanuatu. Apart from his teaching responsibility, he was also active in various national and international organisations, such as Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia, the Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as Academy of Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and many other anti-corruption and environmental law organisations.

Dr Syarif was instrumental in the development of several capacity building programmes for anti-corruption, good governance, judicial reform, and environmental law enforcement in the Indonesian National Police, Attorney General Office, National Planning Agency, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, and still actively teaching at the Training Center of the Supreme Court of Indonesia in the area of judicial code of ethics, environmental law and anti-corruption law.

Mr Denis Tang was appointed Director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in October 2018 to lead CPIB in investigating, preventing and detecting corruption in Singapore. He spearheads CPIB's mission to combat corruption through swift and sure, firm but fair action.

Mr Tang was awarded the Local Merit Scholarship (Police) in 1982, and graduated with an Economics degree from the National University of Singapore.

With a distinguished career spanning over 30 years, Mr Tang has served in several positions within the Home Team. His last appointment was the Deputy Commissioner of Operations at the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) which is responsible for keeping Singapore's borders safe and secure. At the ICA, he led efforts to strengthen border security operations and sharpened ICA's intelligence capabilities in the face of continuing terror threat. He also enhanced intelligence exchanges with ICA's foreign partners to fight terrorism and transnational crimes.

With the Singapore Police Force, Mr Tang held diverse portfolios such as in operations, contingency planning, policy and human resources. His key appointments included the Director of Manpower and the Commander of Jurong Police Division. For his dedication, commitment and outstanding contributions to the Public Service, Mr Tang was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 1997 and the Long Service Medal in 2017.

Mr Tang strives to further strengthen and fortify the Nation's solid foundation of incorruptibility. He rallies his team at the CPIB to step up and achieve this shared vision of keeping Singapore clean and incorruptible for future generations. In this spirit, he leads CPIB's transformation efforts to work with like-minded international partners to actively deal with anti-corruption issues.

Mr Thomas Thomas played an integral role in the setup of ASEAN Corporate Social Responsibility Network (ACN) in 2010 and as Chief Executive Officer, continues to provide oversight and strategic direction for the organisation. ACN was established to promote and enable responsible business conduct in ASEAN Member States.

Mr Thomas was the lead writer of the baseline study on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human rights in ASEAN for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in 2014. Mr Thomas has extensive experience in CSR, serving on various initiatives in the region and globally, including the Steering Committee of the Global Business Network on Forced Labour. He served in the Eminent Persons' Group developing the Reporting and Assurance Framework Initiative for the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. He was also involved in the drafting of the ISO26000, International Social Responsibility Guidance Standard.

He is an Honorary Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility with Nottingham University Business School in the United Kingdom.

Prior to ACN, he was the founding Executive Director of the Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility, the national CSR society in Singapore, now operating as the Global Compact Network Singapore. He was a co-chair of the National Tripartite Initiative for CSR, formed in 2004 and initiated the formation of Singapore Compact for CSR. He was the Singapore focal point for United Nations Global Compact. Mr Thomas had been active with trade unions, co-operatives, the consumer movement and social enterprises and also served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore.

Mr Pekka Virkamäki has been the Head of Building Control of Vantaa since December 2007. He has also been a member of the Board of Building Control Officials of Finland since 2009.

Having worked as an Assistant Town Clerk of Mayors Office of Helsinki between 1982 and 1996, Mr Virkamäki held different responsibilities in the General Administration, Major Building Coordination Projects, International Affairs and Law Departments. He also acted as the Deputy CEO of Helsinki Metropolitan Development Corporation between 1992 and 1994 and as the Head of Administration of Helsinki Public Works Department from 1997 to 2007.

Mr Virkamäki was also a member of the City Council of Vantaa from 2000 to 2007 and the Deputy Chairman of the City Planning Council of Vantaa from 2004 to 2007. In 2010, he was elected as the President of the Building Control Association of Finland and a member of the Board of Consortium of European Building Controllers (CEBC). CEBC has published reports on Values of Building Control and made surveys on Building Control processes in different member countries of Europe and a special report of e'permitting in Europe. He advocates computerising administration as a powerful tool in the anti-corruption work, especially in building activities, which it makes processes more transparent and easier to control.

Mr Virkamäki obtained a degree in Law/Jurisprudence from the University of Helsinki. He has taken part in different research studies of building and city planning activities. At present, he is reporting to the Ministry of Environment of Finland the possibilities of using e'permitting and Building Information Modelling models in the future building control processes.

Mr Ricky Yau joined the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) as an Investigator in 1994, after having served as an Executive Officer in the Hong Kong Government for eight years. He rose through the ranks to Chief Investigator in 1999, Principal Investigator in 2004, Assistant Director in 2007 and Director of Investigation in 2014. During his ICAC career, he has had extensive experience conducting and supervising corruption investigations in both public and private sectors, as well as undertaking management and operational support work. In July 2016, Mr Yau began to head the Operations Department, which is the law enforcement arm of the ICAC. In August 2018, Mr Yau was appointed Deputy Commissioner and Head of Operations. Mr Yau holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and a Master of Science degree in Public Sector Management from Aston University, United Kingdom.

Mr Stephen Zimmermann is the Senior Adviser to the Governance Global Practice of World Bank where he helps guide its anti-corruption, justice and rule of law work. He provides strategic advice at both global and country level, as well as representing the World Bank at the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group and in other international forums addressing global corruption and integrity work.

He was previously the Director of Operations for the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency. In this position, he had a leading role in developing and implementing an expanded strategy for the World Bank's integrity agenda and led efforts to reach a historic Cross-Debarment Agreement signed by the World Bank and four leading regional Multilateral Development Banks for mutual enforcement of sanctions decisions.

Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr Zimmermann was the first Chief of the Office of Institutional Integrity for the Inter-American Development Bank. He also has served as the interim Chief of Staff for the Independent Inquiry Committee for the United Nations Oil for Food Programme.