Dr. Juha Hintsa is a senior researcher, lecturer and consultant in supply chain security and global trade facilitation. He has professional background in consumer goods, steel industry, and software sector – before shifting to his current field of interest in summer 2001. Juha has a Masters in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology and a PhD in Management from HEC University of Lausanne. In 2005 he founded Cross-border Research Association, CBRA, as an independent research institute to focus on supply chain security and trade facilitation research - acting as the Executive Director and a Board Member. He has around 70 publications in academic and practitioner journals and proceedings, as well as in governmental and industry reports. Juha is an associate editor for the Journal of Transportation Security and editorial board member for the World Customs Journal, as well as an advisory group member for the World Customs Organization’s PICARD program.

Dr. Toni Männistö is a researcher and consultant in logistics risk management, supply chain security and trade facilitation. Dr. Männistö holds a PhD in supply chain security that he obtained at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in January 2015. Before embarking on the PhD program in late 2011, he graduated (MSc) in Industrial Engineering and Management from Aalto University of Technology, Helsinki. Dr. Männistö has been working for Cross-border Research Association since 2009, and during this time he has contributed to numerous research and consulting projects and published several studies in academic and industry journals. He has also carried out independent consulting projects at postal, pharmaceutical and defense sectors and edited two practice-oriented industry periodicals, the Network Industry Quarterly and the Postal Industry. His current research interests include coordinated border management, customs risk management, critical infrastructure protection and air cargo security.

Mr. Lars W Lorenzen has had a career with the Maersk Group spanning 37 years within a number of business units, notably within container transportation in the broadest sense. His particular knowledge and expertise covers the operational, equipment management, security, safety, standardization and regulatory sphere. He has been leading the Maersk Group work in obtaining and maintaining US C-TPAT and EU AEO-F supply chain security certifications and validations since the inception of both initiatives, while engaging with customers in shaping their profiles. As part of his security tasks, Lars has built and maintained a security response programme for the Maersk Line organisation, being also the focal point and first responder to security breaches. For a period, he was a member of the WCO PSCG (World Customs Organization Private Sector Consultative Group). During the past 20+ years he has been an appointed national expert in standardization work, mainly within ISO TC104 and TC204, including leadership of working groups - while heading the Danish delegation. Lars has served as a civil expert to NATO and other military initiatives by appointment of the Danish Government for the past 12 years, providing commercial views and factual information relating to logistics, and in the course of this participated in developing and conducting table top and other exercises.

Mr. David Hamon has over 30 years of progressive professional experience, out of which over 20 years of international experience. He specializes in strategy, international security, and foresight partnering with global nonprofit, government, and private business clients to align business objectives and practices with global security policy initiatives. Currently VP for Strategic Initiatives at the Economic Warfare Institute, he served in the US Army and with Analytic Services (ANSER) Inc. At ANSER, he was seconded to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, African Affairs, serving as the regional director for policy and plans. He was also seconded to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency where he directed strategic research efforts on weapons of mass destruction and future threats. He was the founding director of Banyan Analytics Institute, created to aid the US Government re-balance to the Asia Pacific. Mr. Hamon holds a B.Ed. in Education from Colorado State University and M.A. in Political Science/International Relations from Northeastern University. In CBRA, David acts as the Advisor on International Security Policies, since year 2015.

Dr. Ninoslav Marina obtained a Ph.D. at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2004. In partnership with Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki, his thesis was in the information theory with application to wireless communications. Ninoslav Marina was Director of R&D at a Swiss hitech start-up from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to 2008 he was Visiting Scholar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, from 2008 to 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo. During the period 2010–2012 Ninoslav Marina was Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, holding still a Visiting Research position at Princeton. Prof. Marina has been a guest professor at twenty universities, including in United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Israel, Russia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Norway, Finland, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. He has an excellent record and experience in fund raising through various public funding instruments both in academia and industry, including the Swiss CTI, Swiss NSF, the European Commission and the European Space Agency. Dr. Marina is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is one of the co-founders of the Macedonian Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Mr. Peter Myers holds a Master of Business Administration from HEC University of Lausanne Switzerland. He has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is a retired Logistics Officer from the United States Army Reserve where he served for over 23 years. He also has extensive private sector work experience including: engineering assignments at IBM, Honeywell, and Motorola where he designed modules for embedded microprocessors. He was awarded a patent for a period preserving timer invention while at Motorola. His most recent assignment was as a Project Manager/Senior Project Engineer/Security Expert at a Geneva-based, global inspection company. While there he conducted a myriad of different activities including: product development for cargo track and trace, in transit visibility, port security systems, and access control systems. He also worked on FP7 projects including CREATIF where he conducted and managed the research into CBRNE testing and co-authored three technical papers on the subject. In collaboration with the OSCE and UNECE he co-authored the Handbook of Best Practices at Border Crossing Points. During years 2014-15, Peter acted as Security Advisor for CBRA, making also important contributions in one H2020-project.