Prince Bagenda is the Executive Director and research consultant of the NGO African International Group of Political Risk Analysis (PORIS) in Dar es Salaam. He has worked with various NGO structures in Tanzania and has been involved with projects that focus on corruption.

Louis de Koker is the Director of the RAU Centre for the Study of Economic Crime (CenSEC) and Professor of Mercantile Law at RAU University. Since 1998 he has presented various post-graduate programmes in international financial crime at the Levin School of Law of the University of Florida (USA) and Deakin University (Australia). De Koker is the author of the KPMG money laundering control service and a co-author of, among others, Entrepreneurial law and Cilliers and Benade corporate law. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committees of the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance and the Journal of Money Laundering Control, a South African editor of the international Journal of Financial Crime and a specialist editor on financial crime of Amicus Curiae (the journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London). He is a fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies (UK), an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Money Laundering Advisory Council of South Africa.

Bothwell Fundira holds a B.Accountancy from the University of Zimbabwe as well as an MBA from the University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Fundira has more than 21 years experience in the financial and banking sector and is familiar with a wide range of financial products, some of which could be abused for money laundering. He has written several papers on money laundering in Zimbabwe. Fundira serves as the Deputy Chief Executive of a large pension fund in Zimbabwe, where he is responsible for finance, human resources, administration and investments.

Ray Goba received his legal education in Zimbabwe and later in the United States at the University of Minnesota. After a spell as a prosecutor in the various levels of courts in Zimbabwe, Ray was appointed Chief Law Officer and Head of the Serious Economic Crimes Section in the Attorney General's Office in 1991. Between 1993 and 1994, he headed the prosecution, as Acting Director of Public Prosecutions. During that time, he successfully prosecuted the first money laundering case in Zimbabwe under the Serious Offences (Confiscation of Profits) Act of 1990. He also participated in many investigations into bank and foreign exchange fraud, and sat on boards of inquiry into economic misconduct. Goba has retained a keen interest in money laundering control. In 1998, he moved to the Office of the Prosecutor-General for Namibia as Deputy Prosecutor-General. He prosecuted many major cases in the highest courts of Namibia. Since 2000 he has been the Deputy Government Attorney handling civil matters.

Charles Goredema is a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Security Studies in Cape Town where he specialises in research into money laundering, organised crime and corruption in southern Africa. He holds qualifications in law from the Universities of Zimbabwe and London and practiced law as a prosecutor in the Justice Ministry in Zimbabwe in 1983 before embarking on an academic career in 1987. He joined the Institute in August 2000 after teaching criminal justice law at the Universities of Zimbabwe, Cape Town and the Western Cape. He has published extensively in the spheres of criminal justice and human rights law.

George Kegoro is the secretary of the Law Society of Kenya. He graduated from the University of Nairobi with an LL.B in 1992. He then joined the public service in Kenya in the Attorney General's office, where he worked as a research officer in the Kenya Law Reform Commission, before joining the Law Society of Kenya as deputy secretary in 1995. Kegoro has been involved in anti-corruption work as part of the statutory mandate which the Law Society of Kenya has to advise the government and the public in Kenya on all matters relating to or ancillary to the law and the administration of justice. He has also consulted for Transparency International Kenya on wide range of issues relating to the fight against corruption. Kegoro is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.