Pierre Skorich has worked for over ten years across a broad range of Australian government departments and agencies, including the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC, Australia's Financial Intelligence agency), the Department of Finance, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy Regulator, the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, and the Attorney-General's Department. He also led the implementation team for the establishment of Australia's National Anti-Corruption Commission.

Matthew Manning is a future crime scholar. Currently, he is Head of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. He was previously a full professor of criminology at the Australian National University. He has worked in the fields of criminology and economics for two decades. His current ethical research focuses on how new technologies can be exploited to commit crime. Further, his empirical research evaluates strategies, frameworks, and models that can be employed by criminal justice actors to respond to these new and complex crimes.