Professor Penny Green graduated from the Australian National University in 1979, with a BA (Hons) and from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil and PhD in Criminology. Professor Green joined King's College London in September 2007 following eight years as Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Westminster. Prior to that she held posts at the University of Southampton and the LSE. She has published widely on state crime, state-corporate crime, natural disasters, Turkish criminal justice and politics, transnational crime and asylum and forced migration. Her current research interests include illegal logging, torture and state violence, environmental harms and looted antiquities.

Professor Green's Profile at kcl.ac.uk

Dr Tony Ward is a Reader in Law at the University of Hull. He is a founder-member of the NGO INQUEST (which campaigns about deaths in custody and coroners' courts) and worked there until 1990 when he began his academic career at De Montfort University. He is co-author with Penny Green of State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption (Pluto, 2004) and with Gerry Johnstone of Law and Crime (Sage, 2010). With Bev Clucas and Gerry Johnstone he edited Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities (Nomos, 2009). He also has research interests in evidence law, legal theory and legal history. He is on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology and is a Board member of the Crime Studies Network.

Dr Ward's profile at hull.ac.uk

Dr Jennifer Leaning graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, Harvard School of Public Health in 1970 and from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1975 (MA). She is Co-Director of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr Leaning's research and policy interests include issues of public health, medical ethics, and early warning in response to war and disaster, human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. Dr Leaning is Visiting Editor of the British Medical Journal, serves on the editorial board of Health and Human Rights, and is a member of the Board of Syndics at Harvard University Press.

Dr Leaning's profile at hhi.harvard.edu

Dr Vincenzo Bollettino is Director of Programs & Administration at Harvard Humanitarian Initiatve from he has a background in the field of human security and conflict management from years of consultations with agencies including Save the Children, World Vision, the European Union Joint Research Center, and UNICEF. Dr Bollettino has authored several publications related to disaster management and humanitarian assistance and has taught many courses as an Instructor at the Harvard Extension School on social science research and world politics. He holds a doctorate in International Politics and Political Theory from University of Denver and has held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University in the Program on Non-violent Sanctions and Cultural Survival.

Dr Bolletti's profile at hhi.harvard.edu