Jeroen Schokkenbroek studied law at the University of Leiden (Netherlands), where he taught constitutional and administrative law until 1993.

Since 1993, he has held various positions in the Council of Europe Secretariat, mainly in the field of human rights, including Head of the Human Rights Development Department and Head of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.

Since 1993, he has held various functions in the Council of Europe Secretariat, mostly in the field of Human Rights, including that of Head of the Human Rights Development Department and Head of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.

He also served as Special Representative of the Secretary General for Roma Issues, and as Special Adviser to the Secretary General for Ukraine until his appointment as Executive Secretary of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT).

Since June 2018, Mr Schokkenbroek has been Director of Anti-Discrimination in the Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity of the Council of Europe. He has published various books and articles in the fields of human rights and constitutional law.

Since September 2021, Nicola Daniele Cangemi is the Head of the Department for Human Rights, Justice and Legal Cooperation Standard-setting activities at the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law.

Working for the Council of Europe since 2001, he served as legal advisor, as Deputy Head of the Counter-terrorism task force, and as Head of the Human Rights Law and Policy Division, as Special Coordinator of the Directorate General of Democracy, and as Head of the Human Dignity and Gender Equality Department, supervising the Council of Europe work in the areas of Gender Equality, Violence against Women and Trafficking in Human Beings.

In his current functions, he supervises the Organisation’s standard setting work in the areas of Human Rights, Justice and Legal Cooperation, including the secretariat of the Steering Committee for Human Rights, of the European Committee of Legal Cooperation and of the Consultative Councils for Judges and Prosecutors. 

Eric Bisschop is the Vice Federal Prosecutor of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office and also Head of the Organised Crime Unit within this Office. This Unit deals with high level cases of organised crime, drugs, trafficking and smuggling of human beings, cybercrime, organised thefts, criminal motor gangs, financial crimes and match fixing.He has a large international experience, as driving force behind 10 agreements on co-operation with foreign countries (Romania, Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, The Netherlands, Egypt and Brazil).He is a member of the Belgian National Platform in the fight against match fixing in Sports, and widely considered as an expert in this domain.

My story in football is an abject lesson, as a near perfect vehicle to convey a positive message without comes and behaviour changes across the way integrity shall be controlled and viewed by each individual participating in sport, I have managed to strike a clear distinction between my past and present while the focus on improving integrity related issues starts with the future and wider integrity of sport.

Christian Kalb is an expert of the gaming industry (notably sports betting), sports organizations (notably ethical issues and governance) and anti-corruption (notably compliance). Regarding manipulations of sports competitions, Christian was involved in the negotiation of the Macolin Convention (representing the World Lottery Association) and advised several countries in their operational implementation of the Convention. He graduated with HEC Paris MBA and holds an engineer degree from Télécom SudParis.

Claudio Marinelli is a Criminal Intelligence Officer for the INTERPOL Financial Crimes and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) at the General Secretariat of INTERPOL in Lyon (France), leading the INTERPOL Match-Fixing Task Force, a permanent operational world-wide network of investigators dealing with manipulation of sport competitions.

Senior Financial Investigator from the Italian Economic and Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), seconded from Italy to the Organization. Experience in national and international criminal and financial investigations as well as in international police cooperation.

Speaks three foreign languages and is graduated in Economy as well as specialized at the Economic and Financial Superior School of Guardia di Finanza on financial investigations and asset recovery.

Responsible for coordination of a considerable number of international case and for the organization, both at domestic and at international level, of training, workshops and seminars as organizer / trainer / speaker, to apply financial investigation and asset recovery principles in a wide range of criminal area and disciplinary inquiries, including within the sport. He is an INTERPOL certified trainer and also author of professional books.

Football writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist Philippe Auclair has been France Football's England correspondent since 1999. He is the England football correspondent for Eurosport.fr, Europe 1, Radio France Internationale and Swiss national radio RTS, and a regular contributor to the Guardian’s Football Weekly (UK) podcast. His investigations have been published by Josimar magazine and on the websites of the Arabic and African services of the BBC. His biography of Eric Cantona, The Rebel Who Would Be King, was voted 'Football Book of the Year' in both France and the UK, and he won France's 'Scoop Of The Year' award for his investigation into the 'Qatargate' dossier, to which he also devoted two books, published in France and Belgium in 2015 and 2022. He has recently concentrated on investigating the sports betting industry as part of a multinational team which was supported by Investigative Journalism For Europe.

Superintendent, Head of the national criminal investigation division of the Central Service for Racing and Gambling (SCCJ). After international studies in French, Anglo-American and European Law, Diane has been working in the French Police force for 11 years. She began in a strategic legal division of the Judicial police at the Home ministry, working on legal evolutions of the criminal procedure to improve judicial investigations. In 2015 she became a superintendent and worked in the field of public security, commanding a police station of a hundred of police officers in the Parisian suburb.

Diane has always been interested in international police cooperation and in sports. As a former rower, she likes team work and is very attached to the ethical values of sport. She chose to join the SCCJ in 2021, a national investigation service specialised in fighting fraud in games, horse races and in sports, with the enthusiastic perspective of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

George Mavrotas was an international water polo player (1984-2000) with 511 caps, participation in 5 Olympic Games, captain of the national team from 1995 to 2000 and member of the world selection in 1999. Concurrently with his athletic career, he attended the School of Chemical Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He received his PhD diploma in 2000 with expertise in Operational Research and today he is Associate Professor in NTUA with more than 65 scientific publications (Scopus).

From 2003 to 2010 he was member of the Greek Antidoping Organization and one of the main executives in its establishment in the early steps. In the period 2015-2019 he was member of the Hellenic Parliament with the reformist party “Potami”. In the period 2016-2019 he was also member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe and from 2018 to 2019 chairman of the Sub-Committee of Education Youth and Sport. In July 2019, he was designated as Secretary General of Sport in the Ministry of Culture and Sport and from 2020 he is Chairman in the National Platform for Sport Integrity. From June 2021 he is Chair of the Follow Up Committee of the Macolin Convention of the Council of Europe against the Manipulation of Sport Competitions.

Stefano Caneppele (PhD) is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Lausanne, where he teaches criminological courses including Sport and deviance, Analysis of Economic and Organized Crime, Cybercrime & Terrorism. He is also member of the board of the UNIL CAS in Regulation of Global Sport. Since October 2022, he is part of the Management Committee of the Cost Action CA21133 - Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security (GLITSS). Previously he was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. He also worked at Transcrime on several international and national research projects (2002-2015). Between July and December 2007, he was a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (Springer). His research interests focus on crime analysis, crime prevention, corruption in sport, organised and economic crime.

Luca Esposito holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and Telecommunication from the University of Calabria. He has been a technological consultant to various major global concerns, including Accenture and Cambridge Technology Partners.

He began his career in the lottery sector in 2009, when he joined IGT as Technology Director for central Europe. Here, he served the technological needs of gaming-industry clients in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg. In 2013, Luca was promoted to Country Manager for IGT, responsible for servicing the state lotteries of Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Recognized for his vast knowledge of lottery and gaming technology, and his deep understanding of the unique needs of the state-authorized lottery and betting sector, Luca was recruited by the WLA, where he has served as Executive Director since November 2018. As of January 1, 2022, Luca additionally assumed the role Executive Director of the Global Lottery Monitoring System.

Graduate of Essec business school in Paris, Gilles began his career in various positions of marketing and sales management at international consumer goods companies.

He joined the lottery sector at FDJ in 2010 to lead corporate projects for the Management of the company. He was then promoted to Sales Director in 2012, leading the successful restructuring plan of FDJ's field sales organization.

He became Director of Sports integrity at FDJ in 2017, marking both FDJ’s commitment to promote sport values and Gilles’ personal commitment in sport – he was a member of the Paris region tennis league Management committee.

Gilles represents FDJ at the French National Platform against the manipulation of sports competitions. He is a prominent figure of the sport integrity policy of lotteries as Vice-Chair of ULIS association (former GLMS), Executive chair of the sport and sports betting working group of EL (European Lotteries) and member of the WLA (World Lottery Association) “betting integrity of sports and horse racing committee”.

FStephanie works as an Anti-Match-Fixing Expert at UEFA. Her responsibilities include the development of specific programmes in the field of anti-match-fixing in close cooperation with internal and external stakeholders, conducting fact-finding investigations into particular match-fixing incidents, supporting the UEFA national associations’ Integrity Officers in their activities and contributing to the development and implementation of UEFA’s prevention and education programmes.

Stephanie was born in Switzerland and studied law at the University of Zurich. Before joining UEFA in 2022, she worked as a Senior Integrity Manager in another football governing body since 2017 with similar competencies as in her current position. During her career Stephanie has also lectured (match-fixing case studies) at the International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport from the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES). 

Over the last 2 years, my main focus has been that of prosecuting financial crimes on behalf of Maltese State, bringing to justice financial crime offenders who have committed acts of money laundering, fraud and misappropriation (amongst other related crimes). My previous work experience includes Maritime & Aviation, Corporate, Data Protection, Employment and Technology. Over and above my legal profession, I am a semi-professional waterpolo athlete and have been playing competitive waterpolo for the last 14 years.

I work as a seconded official in the Council of Europe Committee MONEYVAL where I provide expert assistance in the implementation of the evaluation of jurisdictions vis-à-vis FATF standards, particularly one dealing with legal and law enforcement issues. I have a master’s degree in law and a decade of professional experience as a State Prosecutor combating all types of crime, including organised crime, corruption, and money laundering. Besides being a State Prosecutor, I have been actively engaged as a national expert in the United Nations and Council of Europe, dealing with the issues of rule of law and human rights. I did research on national money laundering related case law, participated in the drafting of the money laundering/terrorism financing National Risk Assessment. Also, I served as Vice President of the Council of Europe Committee COP 198 for one year.

I work as Project Officer in the Council of Europe Committee MONEYVAL where I provide assistance in the mutual evaluations of our jurisdictions vis-à-vis FATF Standards, more notably on legal and financial aspects. I have previously been involved in the work of the Data Protection Unit within the Council of Europe and continue to work on joint projects touching upon data protection and AML/CFT both at an FATF and Council of Europe level.  

Sarah Hamlet is a police detective with 30 years law enforcement experience, predominately spent in Counter Terrorism based in London, and 6 years experience at the ITIA investigating match fixing & corruption related offences.

Seventeen years in law enforcement, predominately spent in Child Protection Investigations based in London, and. 4years experience at the ITIA on the Intelligence Team currently fulfilling the role as the Information Manager.

Corentin Segalen is responsible for the integrity of sports betting at ANJ and coordinator of the French platform against the manipulation of sports competitions. In 2021, he was elected Chair of the Group of Copenhagen, the international network of national platforms and advisory group of the Macolin Convention’s Follow up Committee. After studying History and Criminal Justice Policy at the Sorbonne and the London School of Economics, he was an assistant to a Member of the European Parliament, then to a Member of Parliament before becoming the parliamentary and diplomatic adviser to the Minister of Sport in 2012 before joining the Gambling Regulatory Authority in 2015.

Evangelos (Vagelis) Alexandrakis has been working over the past 3 years as the National Olympic Committees Relations Manager within the Olympic Movement Unit Prevention on the Manipulation of Competitions at the International Olympic Committee. Prior to that he has worked for the European Lotteries, the  Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) and the sport unit of the European Commission. He was for many years a proud volunteer at the International Olympic Academy. He is a sports lawyer.

I have been a French judicial magistrate for 27 years and have spent most of my career in the Public Prosecutor's Office. After having held several positions within the jurisdictions of the South of France, I specialised in major complex crime, first as Head of the Organised Crime Section in Marseille and then as Deputy Public Prosecutor for the National Financial Prosecutor's Office. Since 2019, I have been Deputy Public Prosecutor in Marseilles, Head of the Specialised Policing Division and in particular of Major Economic and Financial Crime.