Kate Mackintosh is the Executive Director of the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe, an offshoot of the human rights institute she established at UCLA in 2018. Kate has worked in the fields of human rights and international criminal justice for almost three decades, helping to develop international criminal law in its fledgling years. She worked as a lawyer at international criminal tribunals and later served as the Deputy Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. For eight years she advised Doctors without Borders on international law, and has worked on the ground in a range of post-conflict or fragile states. She was deputy co-chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.

Rupert Abbott is the Executive Director of GiveOut, an international NGO supporting the global struggle for LGBTQI human rights. Rupert has over a decade of experience in human rights and developing not-for-profit organisations. He co-founded the human rights experts’ hub RightsStart and has held senior roles with the Human Rights House Foundation, Amnesty International, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Rupert chairs the Advisory Board at the Future Forum think tank in Southeast Asia.

Dr Ines Peterson is a judge in Germany, specialising in German national law and international criminal law. She is currently on secondment to the office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor's office, where she works on war crimes and crimes against humanity cases under universal jurisdiction. Prior to joining the German justice system, she worked as a UN lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. She holds a PhD in international criminal law, was a senior research assistant at Humboldt-University in Berlin.