P. Prakash IPS

Inspector General of Police

Human rights commission

Kerala State, India

Dr. John Climax

Founder Human Dignity Foundation

Co-founder ICON

US

John co-founded ICON plc in 1990, the world leading clinical research organisation. In 2004 he founded Human Dignity Foundation to protect and promote children’s rights. He remains Chair of HDF’s Board; as well as serving as non-executive director on ICON’s board, and as Executive Chair and CEO respectively of biotech companies DS Biopharma and Afimmune. John is a founding member of Science Gallery International, Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and Honorary Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at National University of Singapore. He is also an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s, University of Oxford.

Guillermo Galarza Abizaid

Vice President

Partnerships & Law Enforcement Training

International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children ( ICMEC)

Guillermo Galarza is the Vice President, Partnerships & Law Enforcement Training at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in Alexandria, VA, USA. In this position, Guillermo is responsible for the law enforcement and criminal justice training program delivered worldwide, including identifying child safety technology platforms offered to law enforcement. ICMEC promotes the safety and well-being of children through activism, policy development, and multinational coordination and provides programs and initiatives base on national response plans.

For the past 27 years, Guillermo has managed international law enforcement training to investigate online child sexual exploitation. The training initiatives provide law enforcement, justice officials, and other experts around the world tools and techniques needed to investigate online child sexual exploitation. To date, more than 350,000 experts have attended courses around the world and have attended several courses online.

In addition to the oversight of the training programs as part of national strategies, Guillermo oversees ICMEC’s strategic partnerships with industry, governments, and international alliances. Before joining ICMEC, Guillermo started his career in 1996 at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as a global resource coordinator working on international child abduction cases.

Guillermo has received numerous honors and awards from organizations including:
- FBI National Academy
- Department of Justice
- Interpol Specialist group on crimes against children
- Order of Police Merit Spain
- 2021 Lifetime achievement hero award

Shrinkhala Thapa

Regional Coordinator for South Asia

ECPAT International

Bangkok, Thailand

Shrinkhala Thapa has more than 17 years of experience in Program design, M&E, Research, Training, Coordination, Networking, Policy Advocacy, Financial management (national, regional, inter-governmental and global), Staff management and engagement with stakeholders at different levels (national, regional, inter-governmental and global). Her core technical expertise is on child protection, trafficking, migration, gender, child labour, health, WASH and emergency.
Currently she works as Regional Coordinator for South Asia for ECPAT International Global Secretariat providing technical leadership in South Asia for network development, advocacy, program management and partnership. She has extensive experience of working and collaborating with Governments of South Asia as well as with the UN, INGO, NGO and research organizations in the region on the issue of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation.
She is a professional with CERAHGENEVE: Certificate of Advance Studies, CAS-HDL focused in Designing Strategies and Projects for Humanitarian Action from University of Geneva and Masters in Anthropology from Tribhuvan University. She is also an International Visitor Leadership Program fellow.

Shailey Hingorani

Head of Policy

Advocacy and Research

WeProtect Global Alliance

Shailey is a human rights professional who has spent over 13 years advocating for the rights of the most marginalised women and children in South Asia, the United States and Southeast Asia. She has worked with the Association of Women for Advocacy and Research (AWARE), Open Society Foundations, and Save the Children.

Shailey was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University where she received a Master’s in Public Administration.

Paul Stanfield

Chief Executive Officer

Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute

UK

Before establishing Childlight Paul spent over 30 years working as a senior law enforcement officer in the UK and overseas. As Regional Director for the UK’s National Crime Agency in Africa, and later as the Director for Interpol’s Global Organised Crime programme, Paul was responsible for developing a cohesive approach with heads of state, governments, agencies and key partners across the world to mitigate serious global criminality.
Paul sits on a number of strategic governance boards and has been responsible for establishing bespoke capability to tackle child sexual exploitation and abuse globally.
He has successfully completed the UK International Senior Command Course for policing and has been recognised on multiple occasions for his exceptional leadership, professionalism and integrity.

Shailey Hingorani

Head of Policy

Advocacy and Research

WeProtect Global Alliance

Shailey is a human rights professional who has spent over 13 years advocating for the rights of the most marginalised women and children in South Asia, the United States and Southeast Asia. She has worked with the Association of Women for Advocacy and Research (AWARE), Open Society Foundations, and Save the Children.

Shailey was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University where she received a Master’s in Public Administration.

Samantha Woolfe

Head of Network Expansion and Global Partnerships

INHOPE

UK

Samantha is persistent, resilient and fierce in her drive to enable countries, companies and organisations to achieve a culture of responsibility in keeping young people safe and secure online. Her contagious passion for productivity-for-good and safer-by-design for young people and marginalised sectors of society, is what drives her.

Today Samantha leads INHOPE’s network expansion and partnership team. For 20 years she has been dedicated to improving online safety and online child protection of children, encouraging governments, tech companies and international institutions to do better for future generations.

After a second degree training as a lawyer, Samantha started her career as a lobbyist in the UK. Her background in engaging government, law enforcement, CSOs and industry to work in close concert has contributed to her successful efforts establishing national internet hotlines around the globe, one country at a time. Following lobbying in London, for the transatlantic feather in her cap, Samantha spent five years working for the tech industry on the Hill in Washington DC. Working in London, Brussels and Amsterdam for a few years when she first returned to Europe, Samantha is nomadic. She now resides in Paris with her two children.

Ricardo Valadas

President

European Council of Police Unions (CESP)

Maria Eira

Information and Technology Fellow

Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute

Shireen Vakil Miller

Head of Child Opportunity Fund

British Asian Trust

Shireen Vakil has over 25 years' of experience in social development and is an authority on child protection and child development. Most recently, Shireen was Head of Safety policy for the Asia Pacific region at Meta providing expertise in the areas of online child protection; women’s safety and youth mental health and well-being. Her previous roles include the Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Tata Trusts, and the Director of Advocacy, Campaigns, and Communications at Save the Children. Shireen comes with strong experience in strategy development, building multi-stakeholder partnerships, and addressing national and global issues with governments, donors, civil society, and the private sector. She has appeared and written on a spectrum of child rights and gender issues in national and international media.

Uma Subramanian

Co-Founder & Director

Rati Foundation

Uma is a social worker and has over 15 years of experience of working with the children at risk. Uma conceptualized and co-founded the RATI Foundation & it’s initiative – Aarambh India. At RATI, Uma leads the fundraising activities, strategic planning and implementation of on-ground interventions and advocacy with central systems. She is the primary master trainer who has been trained in both the International Break the Silence Module and the KNH Child Protection Module and has trained more than 5000 individuals. In 2017, the Ministry of Women and Child Development India honored her as an ‘Agent of Change’ in India. Besides her Masters in Social Work, she has completed a one month fellowship at the Oslo University College and an executive education program in Social Entrepreneurship from INSEAD School of Business, Singapore.

Chitra Iyer

Co-Founder and CEO

Space2Grow

Award winning, Social Entrepreneur with 20 years experience in the fields of Education, Child Protection, Antihuman Trafficking and Inclusive Skill-development & Livelihoods. Worked across geographies and eco-systems encompassing Indian and International agencies, Corporates, CSR organizations, and various Central and State Government agencies. She has co-founded two non profits, and continues to mentor and advice organisation on the thematics of expertise.


Recognized as a thought leader in the Antihuman Trafficking and Inclusive skilling sector and a Change Maker 2021, by Thomson Reuters Foundation.


Alumna of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) with a specialization in Urban and Rural Community Development. Holds an undergraduate degree in Economics (Hons) from Miranda House, Delhi University.

Shailey Hingorani

Head of Policy

Advocacy and Research

WeProtect Global Alliance

Shailey is a human rights professional who has spent over 13 years advocating for the rights of the most marginalised women and children in South Asia, the United States and Southeast Asia. She has worked with the Association of Women for Advocacy and Research (AWARE), Open Society Foundations, and Save the Children.

Shailey was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University where she received a Master’s in Public Administration.

K. L. Rao

Chief, Social Policy

UNICEF Office of Tamil Nadu and Kerala

Chief (Social Policy) Chennai Office for Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Experienced Public Finance Management Specialist. Worked across 15 State Governments in India and Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Also worked for Ministry of Finance in Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Ghana. Has experience of working with International Funding Agencies - World Bank, ADB and DFID. Skilled in building teams, General Management, Public Financial Management Systems, Government Process Improvement, Treasury / Budgeting Systems, Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks, Commitment Control Policy and System for Government, Debt Procedure Manual and FRS for Debt Management System, Business Process Improvement and Business Strategy.

Lovjit M. Curran

Assistant Legal Attaché

U.S. Embassy New Delhi

India

Robert Leventhal

Transnational Programs

Division of Global Policy and Programs Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

U.S. Department of State

Robert Leventhal is the Division Chief, Office of Global Programs and Policy, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Mr. Leventhal supervises teams dedicated to advancing U.S. interests in addressing corruption, cybercrime/intellectual property rights, wildlife trafficking/natural resource crimes, money laundering, synthetic opioids, drug prevention/treatment/recovery, and police peacekeeping operations through development and implementation of policy, diplomatic, and programmatic initiatives in those areas. His teams manage a portfolio of approximately $150 million per year in foreign assistance programs in these areas and lead a variety of complementary policy initiatives.

As leader of the INL anticorruption team upon joining the Department of State in autumn 2007, Mr. Leventhal had a key role in development of U.S. government policy on international anticorruption efforts, coordinating U.S. government participation in a wide range of multilateral anticorruption initiatives and managing support for projects to promote good governance. Among other accomplishments, he has co-chaired the G20 Anticorruption Working Group, served as the U.S. alternate head of delegation to the UNCAC Conference of States Parties, led the State Department’s work on visa restrictions on corruption grounds, and co-developed the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery.

Prior to joining the U.S. Department of State, Mr. Leventhal served as Director of the Europe and Eurasia Division (formerly known as ABA-CEELI) of the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative. He oversaw rule of law technical assistance programs in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia and was the focal point for ROLI’s anticorruption programming.

Previously, Mr. Leventhal served as the program director for Transparency International-USA. He was a public defender for the Legal Aid Society of New York and worked in criminal justice reform for the U.N. Mission in Guatemala during the negotiation of the 1996 Peace Accords. Mr. Leventhal clerked for Hon. R. Lanier Anderson III, U.S. Court of Appeals (Eleventh Circuit). Mr. Leventhal graduated from Yale Law School and the University of California, Berkeley and speaks Spanish.

P. Prakash IPS

Inspector General of Police

Human rights commission

Kerala State, India

Guillermo Galarza Abizaid

Vice President

Partnerships & Law Enforcement Training

International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children ( ICMEC)

Guillermo Galarza is the Vice President, Partnerships & Law Enforcement Training at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in Alexandria, VA, USA. In this position, Guillermo is responsible for the law enforcement and criminal justice training program delivered worldwide, including identifying child safety technology platforms offered to law enforcement. ICMEC promotes the safety and well-being of children through activism, policy development, and multinational coordination and provides programs and initiatives base on national response plans.

For the past 27 years, Guillermo has managed international law enforcement training to investigate online child sexual exploitation. The training initiatives provide law enforcement, justice officials, and other experts around the world tools and techniques needed to investigate online child sexual exploitation. To date, more than 350,000 experts have attended courses around the world and have attended several courses online.

In addition to the oversight of the training programs as part of national strategies, Guillermo oversees ICMEC’s strategic partnerships with industry, governments, and international alliances. Before joining ICMEC, Guillermo started his career in 1996 at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as a global resource coordinator working on international child abduction cases.

Guillermo has received numerous honors and awards from organizations including:
- FBI National Academy
- Department of Justice
- Interpol Specialist group on crimes against children
- Order of Police Merit Spain
- 2021 Lifetime achievement hero award

Paul Griffiths

Child Victim Identification Manager

Queensland Police Service (QPS)

Australia

Paul Griffiths is the Child Victim Identification Manager for Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia, where he has worked since February 2009. He is originally from the United Kingdom. Paul has a degree in Mathematics from Lancaster University and was a police officer in the UK for over 18 years. Much of that time was spent investigating online child abuse, working for Greater Manchester Police, before moving on to the National Crime Squad (NCS) and subsequently the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre in London.

Paul is a long-standing member of the INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes against Children. He has served as chair of both the sub-group on Computer Facilitated Crimes against Children and the Child Victim Identification sub-group, before being elected overall chair for two consecutive three year periods. Paul is also a trained computer forensic examiner and has lectured around the world on subjects relating to online child abuse. Paul emigrated to Australia at the end of 2008 with his wife and two children. His role with QPS involves ensuring the maximum benefit is achieved from the analysis of data seized from suspected child sex offenders and encountered during online investigations. To date over 1800 child victims have been identified as a result of the work of the team at Queensland Police Service.

Maxence Delong

PhD Applicant

ESIEA

France

Robert Erdely

Indiana County Detective

Pennsylvania

(ICACCops)

For over 13 years, Rob was assigned to the Pennsylvania State Police Computer Crime Unit for which he was the supervisor of the unit and is now an Indiana County Detective (Indiana, Pennsylvania). He is still involved in the development and support of the RoundUp Suite of tools along with the ICACCops.com project. He is an investigator who has conducted hundreds of online investigations resulting in both state and federal prosecutions across the country. He is a certified forensic examiner who continues to perform forensic exams on seized computer systems and other media for local, state, and federal law enforcement.

Peter Pilley

Founder

Pathfinder Labs

New Zealand

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Peter dedicated 14 years to investigating online crimes against children at the Department of Internal Affairs Censorship Compliance Unit. He led the creation of the Censorship Special Projects group, advancing national and international efforts to combat online child abuse. Peter's collaboration with covert teams resulted in insights into technology-driven offender identification and victim rescue methods. As a developer, he focuses on seamlessly integrating software into investigators' approaches. He played a vital role in high-profile operations like Operation Wisha, Rhodes, Artemis, Aperis and holds an M.Sc with First Class Honors from University College Dublin. Peter also serves as an Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe University Melbourne, showcasing his commitment to both practical application and academic progress in the fight against online child exploitation.

Lt. Nawad Yaqoob Alsaadi

UAE Ministry of Interior