Emil Bolongaita is a Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the head of CMU Australia. He teaches a course on Grand Corruption and Rule of Law. He received his PhD in Government and International Relations and a Masters in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University.

As a student leader in college, Dr Bolongaita helped mobilize fellow students in a democratization movement against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, which culminated in the People Power revolution that ousted the dictator in 1986. In 1998, while an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, he co-led the World Bank’s Global Distance Learning Project on Making National Anti-Corruption Policies and Programs in the Asia-Pacific More Effective. He co-edited and co-authored the project’s Challenging Corruption in Asia: Case Studies and a Framework for Action (World Bank 2002). In 2001, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) commissioned Dr Bolongaita to do a study of the Philippines’ anti-corruption institutions. Recommending that the Philippines adopt a deterrence-driven strategy to make corruption a high-risk and low-reward activity, he managed USAID Philippines Rule of Law Project to help the Ombudsman reorganize and train its investigators and prosecutors, which saw the organization increase its conviction rate from 6% in 2001 to about 35% in 2005.

In 2006, USAID engaged Dr Bolongaita to lead its Enhancing Government Effectiveness Project, which provided technical assistance on governance to government agencies in Yemen, Jordan, Morocco, the West Bank, Vietnam and Indonesia. In 2010, the Asian Development Bank appointed Dr Bolongaita as a Public Management Specialist and later as Unit Head of its Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program. He led the team that designed ADB’s Strengthening Public Management project in Nepal, which aimed to reform the country’s public financial management system and anti-corruption institutions. He also developed a technical assistance project to support the institutionalization of Bhutan’s Anti-Corruption Commission. In 2010, Dr Bolongaita, with funding from the U4 Anti-Corruption Research Centre in Norway, conducted a comparative study of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Philippines’ Ombudsman. This seminal study has shown how anti-corruption agencies can be effective in highly corrupt environments. In 2016, Dr Bolongaita conducted a pioneering study of the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention and found that its implementation was more honored in the breach than in compliance, with only a handful of the 41 signatories effectively enforcing laws against foreign bribery, and therefore significantly contributing to grand corruption in many developing countries.

Geoffrey Cowan is currently the president of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and Professor at the University of Southern California, where he holds the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership, and directs the Annenberg School's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. He was previously Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Prior to becoming Dean, Mr. Cowan served as the 22nd director of the Voice of America and as Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. He also served as chairman of the commission that wrote the Los Angeles' ethics and campaign finance law. Mr. Cowan is also an author and has just published his latest book entitled "Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary." Mr. Cowan chairs the California HealthCare Foundation Board of Directors and serves on the boards of Common Sense Media, Human Rights Watch, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Mr. Cowan holds a Bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Richard J. Goldstone was a judge in South Africa for 23 years, the last nine as a Justice of the Constitutional Court. Since retiring from the bench he has taught as a visiting professor in a number of United States Law Schools. From August 1994 to September 1996 he was the chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He is an honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, London and an honorary fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is an honorary member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an honorary life member of the International Bar Association and Honorary President of its Human Rights Institute.

Farid Rohani is the immediate past Chair of the Laurier Institution, a Canadian non-partisan organization dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge about the economic and social implications of diversity. During a 12-year tenure on the Laurier board, Rohani established the Ethics and Human Rights Lecture Series (University of British Columbia) and expanded the M.K. Wong Lecture Series on multicultural issues (CBC Radio) now in its 11th year. He also established Canada’s first Indigenous speaker series at Vancouver Island University. As former Chair of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (Vancouver), he organized the first Citizenship Ceremony on a First Nations Reserve.

Rohani has served on the Royal Canadian Mountain Police (E-Division) Diversity Advisory Committee, the Scouts Canada Diversity Committee and on the Steering Committee of the Vancouver Dialogues Project. He has been honored with the British Columbia Multicultural Award (2011), the British Columbia Regiment Commanding Officer’s Commendation (2014), and has been recognized as a Georgia Straight Cultural Navigator (2013).

An Iranian-born Canadian, Rohani publishes widely on immigration, multiculturalism, diversity and ethics, and is a guest commentator on these issues on CBC radio and television. He also manages his family’s Vancouver-based development and real estate holding company.

Prof. Robert I. Rotberg is the Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and sometime Academic Vice-President of Tufts University and President of Lafayette College. He currently serves as the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Sao Paulo. He has published a number of books and articles. His latest, The Corruption Cure: How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Graft, is published by Princeton University Press in early 2017.

Jill A. Schuker, a Senior Strategic Partner and Advisor to Global Communicators LLC, is also President of JAS International, a governance, strategic communications and policy planning firm. For the previous six years she was Head of Center for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Washington Center, one of four global centers outside of its Paris HQ. She has served as Special Assistant to the President (Clinton) for National Security Affairs and Senior Director at the National Security Council, Deputy Communications Director at the White House, head of Press and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Counselor for Press and Public Affairs/USUN, and Deputy Spokeswoman at the State Department. On Capitol Hill, she was Executive Director of the New England Congressional Caucus working with Speaker Thomas (Tip) P. O’Neill Jr.. She has taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, American University and George Washington University. She also was a European Community Fellow, a Ford Foundation Fellow, and a non-resident Fellow at the University of Southern California. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Advisory Council Member of the Women in Public Service Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Founding Member of the Women’s Refugee Commission, a Board member of Integrity Initiatives International (III), and a Board member and Head of the Governance Committee of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. She has written a number of published Op Eds on national security policy and public diplomacy and spoken at a range of global and national forums, including attending Davos. Ms. Schuker has a B.A. degree from Skidmore College and is the recipient of its Distinguished Achievement Award, and an M.A. degree from Tufts University with the coordination and direction of her thesis at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Dawn L. Smalls is a partner in the New York City office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, crisis management and government response, and health care. Ms. Smalls has represented clients in high-profile, complex cases, including defending Barclays in bankruptcy proceedings against the Lehman Brothers. She was previously at the Ford Foundation and has substantial experience in government, politics, and philanthropy. This includes roles as Executive Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant to White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Special Assistant in the Office of Management and Budget, and New York State Political Director for the 2008 Obama for America campaign and assistant director of delegate selection. Prior to that role, Ms. Smalls served as Assistant Director of Delegate Selection and Regional Political Director for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign. Ms. Smalls holds a B.A. from Boston University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

José Ugaz most recently served as Chair of Transparency International from 2014 2017. Prior to becoming chair, Mr. Ugaz served as president of Proetica, Transparency International’s chapter in Peru. He became an individual member of Transparency International in 2008, and has served on its board since 2011. Mr. Ugaz was also an official at the World Bank’s anti-corruption unit from 2004 – 2006.

He is a world-renowned lawyer, having served as ad-hoc state attorney for Peru in one of the biggest corruption cases in Latin American history against the criminal network of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. From 2000 – 2002 Ugaz’s office opened more than 200 cases against 1500 government officials and associates of Fujimori. Under Mr. Ugaz’s mandate, $205 million USD in assets were frozen abroad, and $75 million USD were recovered.

Mr. Ugaz also taught criminal law at the Law School of Pontifical Catholic University of Peru from 1987 to 2011. He has spoken on corruption and money laundering in several countries, including: the United States, Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Japan, South Korea, Greece, and Thailand.

Daniel H. Weintraub is Managing Director and General Counsel of Audax Group. Previously, he was a corporate associate at Ropes & Gray LLP. Prior to Ropes & Gray, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Mark L. Wolf. Mr. Weintraub received an A.B. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.