Mr Tong Jianming is the First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China and Vice-President of the IAP. He is a member of the Communist Party of China (“CPC”) and currently serves as a member of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, Deputy Prosecutor General in charge of daily work (with the rank of minister), a member of the Procuratorial Committee, and a Class I Grand Prosecutor.

Mr Hon Yi is a Deputy Public Prosecutor/Senior State Counsel with the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore. As a Senior Director, he oversees a team of prosecutors and also co-leads two task forces – a technology crime task force and a cryptocurrency task force. The technology crime task force specialises in handling the prosecution of cases with a tech-heavy element and gives advice to the Police on technology-related issues. The cryptocurrency task force specialises in dealing with matters involving crypto-currency issues.

Mr Hon has been a prosecutor for over twenty years and has extensive experience in matters of technology crime and financial crime. He has been dealing with cybercrime since 2007. He is particularly interested in cases where new forms of criminal offending arise through the use of new technologies by offenders.

He also conducts training of prosecutors to sensitise them on issues relating to technology crime and digital evidence. He was also involved in the updating of Singapore’s laws to tackle emerging forms of criminal offending making use of new technologies.

Mr Liam Shaw is currently participating in the University of Sydney Law School Practitioner-in-Residence programme researching the use of digital evidence in criminal investigations, tracing cryptocurrency by law enforcement and cybercrime generally. He has worked in criminal law since 1995 and as a Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales since 2006. He has extensive experience prosecuting and defending criminal trials in New South Wales, interstate and overseas. He appeared before the United Nations East Timor Special Panel for Serious War Crimes in 2002 handling multiple cases involving crimes against humanity. He was also Senior Prosecutions Adviser to the Public Prosecutor in Vanuatu in 2004-2005 where he drafted child sexual assault laws and also drafted and implemented a Prosecutions Guidelines Policy. Mr Shaw was involved in the prosecution of the serving Prime Minister of Vanuatu for the offence of contempt by Scandalising the Court. Over the last 19 years Mr Shaw has prosecuted a significant number of complex murder and other serious criminal cases in New South Wales.

Mr Steven Mammuad Dayag is a Prosecution Attorney of the National Prosecution Service of the Department of Justice in the Philippines. He obtained his juris doctor degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 2013 and is a member of the Philippine Bar.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice, he was a legal officer of the Land Bank of the Philippines, the country’s major government bank, where he focused on financial consumer protection and worked on the bank’s data privacy policy development and reform in compliance with the Philippine data privacy laws and related banking regulations.

Currently, he works as a public prosecutor in the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor of Cagayan, conducting investigations and prosecuting a wide variety of cases including cyber-related fraud and financial crimes involving the use of information and communications technology. Mr Dayag also teaches law at the University of Cagayan Valley and delivers lectures and training to local government officials and law enforcement agents.

Koen Hermans is a senior prosecutor with the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service. Working as a prosecutor since 2007, his passion for cybercrime started in 2009 and since then he has been actively involved in this field in various roles. He has, among others, acted as the Vice Chair of the Task Force on Cybercrime at the EU agency Eurojust (2012-2017). At Eurojust he was involved in the judicial coordination of various cross-border cybercrime cases such as Operation Blackshades, Operation Onymous / SilkRoad 2.0 and the first ‘EMMA’ operations. He has subsequently acted as Cybercrime Prosecutor in the Public Prosecution Office in The Hague. Koen now holds the position of National Prosecutor on Cybercrime. He is convinced that a comprehensive approach is crucial to effectively fight cybercrime. Recently the Netherlands took on the role of facilitator for the IAP Cybercrime Network. Given his extensive experience in international cooperation in cybercrime operations Koen is now co-chair of this network.

Mr Walsh, SC specialises in financial crime and compliance, civil fraud, and asset recovery. He also has notable experience in public international law cases involving cross-border litigation.

Prior to commencing practice at the private Bar in 2018, Mr Walsh spent a 25-year career with the Department of Justice, Hong Kong, where he prosecuted white-collar crime and corruption cases, and oversaw major criminal cases as well as certain civil cases involving cross-border litigation and international cooperation. Before this, he was a prosecutor with the Serious Fraud Office in New Zealand, a solicitor in commercial litigation, and for 3 years an Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.

Mr Walsh has court expertise in extradition law, search warrants, mutual legal assistance, asset recovery and proceeds of crime. He has established an international and local profile in financial crime and regulatory compliance matters. He was a lead advisor to the Hong Kong SAR Government on implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism standards for many years and for 2 years, he co-chaired a Working Group of the Financial Action Task Force which revised the current international standards for FATF Recommendations.

Since moving to private practice, Mr Walsh has been acting for a range of individuals and entities facing financial crime and regulatory compliance investigations including in cross-border context.

Mr Fabrício Rochas Bastos is a Senior Public Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He obtained his Master's Degree from the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy. Currently, Mr Bastos is a Senior Professor at the Universidade Estácio de Sá in Rio de Janeiro. He also has extensive experience teaching at various other educational institutions in Brazil.

Mrs Esther Baars is an experienced senior prosecutor at the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service. She started working as a prosecutor in the 1990s immediately after completing her law degree at the Erasmus University, and has since held various positions within her organisation. She has held the position of National Prosecutor on High Tech Crime for several years. In international investigations led by her and her team, disruption in the broadest sense possible is a frequent practice. Convinced that it is a necessity to join forces to combat cybercrime, she welcomes sustainable forms of cooperation, such as the public-private partnership project “Melissa” and the IAP specialist networks. After the Netherlands took on the role of facilitator for the IAP Cybercrime Network recently, Mrs Baars became the chair of this network due to her extensive experience in international cooperation in cybercrime operation.

Mr Ernest Ho currently leads the Digital Finance Division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (“HKMA”) and is responsible for the overall coordination of the HKMA’s ongoing work on digital assets, including regulation for stablecoin issuers, policy research, monitoring and surveillance of the virtual assets market. He is also actively participating in the work of the Financial Stability Board on crypto assets.

Prior to his current role, Mr Ho was the Head of Real Estate and Technology in the HKMA’s private markets team, overseeing the HKMA’s private investment in real estate, venture capital and technology. Before joining the HKMA, he was a Research Associate at Morgan Stanley focusing on China macroeconomic research.

Mr Nguyen Duy Giang is the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy of Vietnam.

Mr Nguyen holds a Doctor of Law degree. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr Nguyen has served in Ha Tinh Provincial People’s Procuracy and Hanoi City People’s Procuracy. He has had extensive experience tackling cases concerning economic crimes and had held the position of Director General of the Department for Public Prosecutor and Supervision over Economic Cases in the Supreme People’s Procuracy.

Mr Kim Hyungwon is the Director and Senior Prosecutor of the International Criminal Affairs Division at the Ministry of Justice of South Korea. Over the years, he has built a distinguished career in local and international criminal law, bringing extensive experience to the role.

Before his current position, Mr Kim was the Director of the Public and International Criminal Investigation Department at the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office and had been a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Headquarters in Vienna. He had served as a Judge Advocate in the Ministry of Defence and he had been a prosecutor in various District Prosecutors’ Offices in South Korea, including Daejeon, Wonju, and Seoul. He was also in charge of mutual legal assistance and extradition cases with various countries and took the leading role in Korea’s review process of implementing international criminal agreements such as the OECD Anti-bribery Convention and the UNCAC while working as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Affairs Division, Ministry of Justice.

Mr Kim obtained a Bachelor of Economics from Seoul National University in 2004, an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and an LL.M. in Corporate Law from Seoul National University. He has also been trained at the Judicial Research and Training Institute at the Supreme Court of Korea.

Since joining the Public Prosecutions Office in 2011, Mr Ng Meng Tai has been engaging in the practice and management of judicial support, legal affairs and legal assistance matters. Mr Ng previously served as an investigator in the Commission Against Corruption of the Macao SAR where he was responsible for anti-corruption investigation and ombudsman matters. He was also a longstanding member of the Narcotics Control Committee and the Mental Health Committee of the Macao SAR Government and worked in relevant public fields.

Mr Ng is currently responsible for coordinating external legal assistance (at international and interregional levels) on behalf of the Office of the Prosecutor General. Besides, he is one of contact persons of the Macao Public Prosecutions Office for the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).

Ms Siti Khalillah Hussin is a Deputy Public Prosecutor from the Criminal Justice Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers (“AGC”) in Brunei. Since joining the AGC in 2015, Ms Hussin has practiced in both areas of civil and criminal law and presently specialises in narcotics and financial crimes. She is an appointed governmental expert for Brunei for the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime Review Mechanism, as well as a representative of the AGC for the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee, the policy-level coordination body of Brunei on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing matters. Additionally, she is also a member of the Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition Secretariat in the AGC, which is the competent authority of Brunei that handles mutual legal assistance and extradition outgoing and incoming requests. She also sits as a member of the National Task Force on Online Cheating and Scamming. Additionally, she has appeared as a panelist for several international seminars for organisations such as UNAFEI, UNODC and APEC on subject matters such as good governance, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery. She has also published a paper entitled “Protecting Judges, Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Officials from Undue Interference Including Bribery: A Prosecutor’s Perspective & Prerogative” in 2023.

Mr Rashmi Aslam brings over 20 years of experience in prosecuting a wide range of crimes within common-law jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region. He specialises in financial crimes, serious fraud, and corruption. He began his prosecuting career with the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka and later joined the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (“ICAC”). At Fiji ICAC, he served as the Chief Prosecutor and Head of the Legal Department for six years before being appointed as the Head of the Commission. During his tenure at Fiji ICAC, he prosecuted numerous high-profile cases and set various legal precedents on critical legal principles and sentencing tariffs.

This year, Mr Aslam joined the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Papua New Guinea, where he now serves as the Special Counsel and Deputy Executive Director of Legal. He takes immense pleasure and honour in being part of this rapidly emerging anti-corruption agency, believing that his contributions and commitment can significantly impact the lives of ordinary people in Papua New Guinea.

Mr Aslam holds a Master of Laws in Advanced Criminal Law Studies and International Humanitarian Law.

Ms Linda van den Oever is a Senior Public Prosecutor. Since 2022, she has been the Dutch National Public Prosecutor on online and transnational child sexual abuse. As the National Public Prosecutor, she is responsible for national policy and the coordination of the largest national and international criminal investigations led by her unit. Her unit consists of 10 prosecutors and assistants that are highly specialised in the matter. She regularly appears in the media as spokesperson for the National Public Prosecutor’s Office. The combat of transnational sexual abuse of children by western men in the Asian region is very close to her heart, as her mother is from the Philippines and she feels a strong moral drive to end this horrific crime.

Ms Nicole Smits has been a Public Prosecutor for over 18 years. She started at the regional office in Amsterdam, handling all sorts of criminal cases varying from fatal traffic accidents to armed robbery and murder cases. She switched to the National Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2018, specialising in crypto communication cases at first. She has specialised in online and transnational sexual child abuse cases since 2020 and holds the portfolio on the latter. Through the years, she has led several high impact cases that made world news, such as the case involving a sophisticated network of European men who travelled to different Asian countries to abuse children, as well as the first Dutch case in which a key player on the dark web was hacked by the investigative team.

Mr Ehab Al-madani has held a bachelor’s degree in law since 1995. He started his career as an investigator. Currently, he is a member of the Prison Supervision and Enforcement Judgments in Al-Shemisi. He has 30 years of experience in the Drug Prosecution, Assault on Persons Prosecution, Economic Crimes Prosecution, Public Morals Prosecution, and Issues Follow-up Departments. He is a Member of the Committee of Reviewing Decisions Indictment. He has participated in multiple committees and attended many local and international courses on various subjects, especially in the field of crime and economic investigations.

Superintendent Rachel Hui Yee-wai currently leads the Cyber Intelligence Division of the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau (“CSTCB”) in the Hong Kong Police Force. She holds a Master of Social Science in Counseling and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management, along with a certification as a Cryptoasset Anti-Financial Crime Specialist.

In her inspectorate rank, Ms Hui worked in the Commercial Crime Bureau, where she focused on commercial fraud investigations. In 2015, she transitioned to the CSTCB, enhancing her experience in cybersecurity and cyber threat analysis by managing the Cyber Security Centre.

Now, Ms Hui oversees intelligence-gathering and coordinates joint enforcement efforts in response to emerging online scams and cyber threats, including cryptocurrency investigations. Additionally, she has developed systems to support frontline investigative duties by offering essential IT tools for detecting technology crimes and conducting crypto tracing.

Ms Belinda Hughes has a career history of over 19 years in law enforcement and regulation.

Beginning her career with the New South Wales Police Force (“NSWPF”), she spent over 10 years prosecuting all levels of crime as a senior prosecutor. She spent 3 years leading the team and prosecuting outlaw motorcycle gangs and criminal groups in New South Wales. Her biggest prosecution was of 55 gang members. Ms Hughes left NSWPF as a Sergeant and specialist legal advisor in counter-terrorism and major incidents.

Ms Hughes moved to Transport for NSW as a Senior Manager leading 30 prosecutors, administration staff and managing over 36,000 matters per year. Following there, Ms Hughes moved to the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator as the National Director of Prosecutions, leading a team of 50 based across five states and a territory. Ms Hughes is now the Executive Director of Legal for the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Papua New Guinea.

Ms Hughes has a Diploma in Policing, a Bachelor in Criminology, a Bachelor of Laws, and a Master in Law (Criminal Practice).

Ms Christina Danbi Choi is the Acting Deputy Director of the “Legal Capability and Performance” practice group at the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) in the Commonwealth of Australia and has been in a Senior Executive role since August 2019.

Ms Choi started her professional career at the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (State of New South Wales) in 2006 and commenced at the CDPP a year later. As a federal prosecutor, Ms Choi has prosecuted a broad range of offences including drug offences, child sex exploitation offences, human trafficking offences, serious financial crimes, transnational organised crimes and terrorism.

Ms Choi is one of the leaders at the CDPP driving digital transformation and is passionate about equipping prosecutors and partners for the future.

Mr Min Suk Kim is a public prosecutor from South Korea and joined the World Bank Group in Washington D.C. as a secondee under the Legal Vice Presidency.

He is primarily working on the Cybercrime Capacity Building project, the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) and the Access to Justice and Technology Project.

As a public prosecutor, he investigated one of the largest fund fraud schemes in the Korean financial market, including stock manipulation cases, and focused on cybercrime related to cryptocurrency and forfeiture of crime proceeds.

He graduated from Korea National Police University in 2003 and worked as an Inspector in Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency until he passed the Korean Bar in 2008 and was appointed as a public prosecutor in 2011. He completed his Master’s programme at Seoul National University in 2008 and received his LL.M. degree from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2017.

Maranatha Praise Ladringan is a Senior Lead Lawyer for Prosecution Development in International Justice Mission Philippines. She works with government partners in innovating and scaling child-protective measures in the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC) cases. She also serves as a private prosecutor of OSEC cases and has secured the conviction of numerous perpetrators in this capacity.

Praise not just leads, but also regularly speaks as a subject matter expert, in various capacity-building programs for prosecutors, law enforcers, and other OSEC frontliners. She has also contributed to several relevant publications, including the Compendium of Legal Resources for the Prosecution of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Philippines, that compiled legislation, implementing rules and regulations, jurisprudence, and other issuances necessary for the successful prosecution of OSEC cases.

An alumna of Ateneo Law School in the Philippines, where she was awarded a Silver Medal for Academic Excellence, Praise previously worked as a Court Attorney for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno in the Supreme Court of the Philippines. On September 2022, Praise pursued her Master of Laws (LL.M. in Human Rights at the University of Edinburgh after she was awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship by the United Kingdom government. Last November 2023, she graduated with Distinction (Summa Cum Laude).