Manuel Espinoza de los Monteros de la Parra has vast experience in advising both companies and public entities regarding matters of  integrity and compliance, specifically from a transnational perspective. He oversees Worth Street Group’s international network and has coordinated and supervised projects in over 70 countries. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School.

As a lawyer at Roxin Rechstanwälte LLP in Germany, he managed Roxin Alliance, a network of boutique law firms from more than 30 jurisdictions specializing in white-collar crime and business integrity. He additionally collaborated with law firms in different countries, including Getnick and Getnick in New York and the Spanish firm Gonzalez Franco. Mr. Espinoza collaborated with Luis Moreno Ocampo – Former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court – on a integrity project and assisted Mr. Ocampo during his lectures at Yale University. He also served as a consultant for international organisations, including the WTO and the UNODC.

Mr. Espinoza conducted academic research in a project granted by the European Commission “Liability Ex Crimine of Legal Entities in Member States. Towards a Common Model in the European Union”. He further served as the President of the International Association of Penal Law for experts under the age of 35 and currently plays an active role in various international criminal law committees. He has a number of publications in English, Spanish and German, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

Language(s): Spanish, German, English, Italian, French

Nicola Selvaggi is a Professor of Criminal Law and the Director of the Research Center on Preventive Measures and Organized Crime (CeRPEC) at the Department of Law and Economics of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria.

Mr. Selvaggi is a lawyer and a consultant, with a specific focus on white-collar crime and corporate compliance. He is the President of a supervisory and controlling body of an important State-owned company (Decree 231/2001) and participates in activities of the UNODC, including IWGs and EGMs, more specifically regarding  freezing and confiscation.

Mr. Selvaggi was a member of the Editorial Board of the study on Criminal Sanction Legislation and Practice in Representative Member States and a member in the University Roma TRE Research Unit. He additionally headed a study granted by the European Commission, entitled Criminal Corporate Responsibility and Compliance Programs, which was conducted in collaboration with University La Sapienza di Roma, University Paris -1, and the University of Castilla – La Mancha.

Language(s): Italian, English, German, French, Spanish

Gonzalo Medina graduated as a lawyer in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Chile Law School. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Chile Law School’s Criminal Science Department, where he regularly teaches courses on Criminal Law and Corporate Criminal Law.

Mr. Medina is a visiting Professor in different graduate programs on Criminal Law and Compliance.  He is also a partner in Harasic, Medina & Dal Pozzo Law firm, where his practice focuses on litigation in criminal cases and advising on matters of corporate criminal responsibility.

Language(s): Spanish, English, German, Italian

Eduardo Saad-Diniz is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Law at the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Law School and Latin American Studies, in Brazil. Here, he received his Ph.D. in Criminal Law in 2010. In 2017, he added a second Ph.D. from the University of Seville, Spain, with a scholarship “sandwich program” at the University of Regensburg, Germany (2009-2010), sponsored by a cooperation program between DAAD and CAPES.

In 2018, he completed a post-doctoral thesis in Criminology at the University of São Paulo, for which he was awarded a post-doctoral scholarship FAPESP at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2017as well as thethe productivity scholarship CNPQ (2017-2020; 2020-2022). I

Mr. Saad-Diniz takes part in a number of research collaborations, both domestic – FAPESP, CNPQ, CAPES – and international research projects in Europe, USA, Canada, China and  Latin America, and has published several articles and books on corporate crimes and compliance. He teaches in different executive education programs and is experienced in providing trainings to bar associations, public prosecutors, and judges.

Language(s): Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, Italian

Lucas Augusto Ponte Campos is a Brazilian corporate lawyer and consultant, as well as a member of the Brazilian Center for Business Ethics & Corporate Liability.

Mr. Campos holds a Master of Sciences Degree in Legal Theory at the University of São Paulo’s Faculty of Law, where he was also awarded an LL.M. in Tax Law . In 2015 , Mr. Campos took part in University of Castilla – La Mancha’s Corruption Prevention in the Public & Private Sectors Graduation Program.

Mr. Campos has vast experience in regulatory initiatives on corruption prevention, corporate liability, Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and public procurement.

Language(s): Portuguese, Spanish, English

Martin Gangotena is the head of the Criminal Law Department of the law firm Estudio Jurídico Gangotena & Asociados and has vast knowledge of the applicable law in different jurisdictions, having obtained his LL.M at Loyola University Chicago, a diploma on International Criminal Law from Leiden University and spending  a year studying abroad at Universidad de Salamanca, in Spain .

The main focus of Mr. Gangotena’s career has been criminal law, drafting  one of the first theses on the implementation of corporate criminal liability in the Ecuadorian criminal code.

Mr. Gangotena focuses on white-collar crimes and criminal compliance, and has experience as an attorney in a wide variety of economic crime cases.

Language(s): Spanish, English

Mr. Carrion is one of the most renowned specialists in GRC and white collar crime in Peru. He is a Managing Partner at the Estudio Carrion law firm, where he advises national and international companies in GRC and white collar crime matters.

He holds a PhD in Criminal Law and an LL.M. from the University of Bonn in Germany. He additionally studied law at the University Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Peru. He successfully      completed a number of      specialization courses in corporate criminal liability and compliance at the prestigious University of Castilla – La Mancha in Spain and was certified as an expert by the Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification (AERNOR).

Currently, Mr. Carrion is Professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He has a vast number of publications in Spanish, English and German on Criminal Law, Corporate Criminal Liability and Compliance Matters. He is a frequent speaker at national and international fora.

Language(s): Spanish, German, English

Paola Medellin has a law degree from the prestigious Escuela Libre de Derecho, in Mexico. She further specialized in constitutional law at UNAM. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in Compliance from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Mrs. Medellin is currently studying for an additional Master’s degree in the Accusatory Criminal Procedure.

Mrs. Medellin is certified to audit financial entities in the matters of money laundering and financing terrorism, by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, she is an auditor of the ISO 37001: 2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems and is being trained to be an auditor to certify that standard, by AENOR Mexico.

Mrs. Medellin specializes in the study of white-collar crime, compliance, prevention of money laundering and anti-corruption. She offers consultancy in these matters and has litigated cases on tax crimes, financial crimes, and money laundering for fifteen years.

Mrs. Medellin teaches “Criminal Compliance” and “Money Laundering Crime” in the Criminal Law Specialty Course at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, where she also coordinates the professional course in Compliance.

Mrs. Medellin is a member of the board of directors of the World Compliance Association, Mexico Chapter. She has been a speaker in a wide variety of academic forums organized by UNAM and by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas.

Language(s): Spanish, English

Claudia Villalobos has a law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, in Mexico. She also holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Compliance from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, a Professional Diploma in Human Rights from the Escuela Libre de Derecho and another one on Human Rights, taught by ASILEGAL and the Judicial Powers of Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca. Mrs. Villalobos is currently studying for an additional Master’s degree in the Accusatory Criminal Procedure.

Mrs. Villalobos is certified to audit financial entities in the matters of money laundering and financing terrorism, by the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, she is an auditor of the ISO 37001: 2016 Anti-Bribery Management Systems and is being trained to be an auditor to certify that standard, by AENOR Mexico.

Mrs. Villalobos specializes in the study of white-collar crime, compliance, prevention of money laundering, anti-corruption. She provides consultancy in these matters and has litigated cases on tax crimes, financial crimes, and money laundering for more than fifteen years.

Mrs. Villalobos teaches “Insurance Crimes” in the Criminal Law Specialty Course at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, where she also coordinates the professional course in Compliance.

Mrs. Villalobos is a member of the board of directors of the World Compliance Association, Mexico Chapter, and President of the Criminal Compliance Committee.  She has been a speaker in a wide variety of academic forums organized by the aforementioned association, by AENOR Mexico, and also by UNAM.

Language(s): Spanish, English

Beatriz García-Moreno, PhD in Law (2018) and Master in Fundamental Rights and Public Freedoms (2013) from the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

She is assistant professor of criminal law at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and Universidad CEU San Pablo; she also participates as a lecturer in several postgraduate degrees (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Universidad Carlos III, Consejo Superior de Letrados de Comunidades Autónomas y Tirant lo Blanch). García-Moreno has been visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for international and comparative criminal law (Germany, 2015), Duke University School of Law (United States, 2016) and University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg, 2019).

Her main research line is criminal liability of legal entities and compliance, focusing on whistleblowing and internal investigations. Beside having numerous publications on the subject (e.g. “Del whistleblower al alertador. La regulación europea de los canales de denuncia”, Tirant lo Blanch, 2020), she has taken part in consultancy projects with corporations and public administrations.

Language(s): Spanish, English, Italian, German

Marta Sosa Navarro is a lawyer and a researcher in the fields of Environmental Law and Business and Human Rights Law.

Ms Sosa holds an master in Human Rights Law from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where she has also pursued a PhD in International Criminal Law. Ms. Sosa has worked as a lecturer on Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corruption in different Italian and Spanish universities, including Università Milano-Biccoca, Università degli Studi di Milano and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Ms Sosa has published extensively on environmental and human rights issues related to business activity, including the current state of victims’ access to criminal judicial remedy for corporate abuse in Europe or the existing conflicts between the international legal framework for the protection of intellectual property and the regional and international systems that protect the right to health in the context of the Covid-19 crisis.

Ms Sosa has also provided legal consultancy in cases of environmental damage and human rights violations committed by corporations and has worked as a lead analyst at the Spanish Observatory for Corporate Social Responsibility. She has been speaker in a wide variety of international conferences, where she has presented her research findings on international criminal law, corporate liability and human rights risk identification in supply chains.

Language(s): Spanish, English, Italian, French

Megumi Ochi is an Associate Professor at the College of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University, in Japan. She obtained her LL.M. at Leiden University as well as a Ph.D. in Law at Osaka University, in Japan. She is a Senior Fellow of the Case Matrix Network (CMN) and has completed an internship at the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from April to September 2012. She is a Member of the Young Penalist Committee of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP). Moreover, she has written a large number of articles within the field of international criminal law on topics including the concept of international criminal procedure, general principles of international criminal law, the ne bis in idem principle, amnesty, extradition, and damage reparation.

Language(s): Japanese, English, French

Mariana Aldrete has a law degree from the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. She holds additional degrees specialising  in Constitutional Law  from the same institution, as well as      in Corporate Criminal Liability and Compliance from the  Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.

She has gained notable professional experience with law firms specialising in criminal litigation. Here she participated in the defense of criminal cases of national and international relevance.

Mariana currently focuses on GRC matters related to anti-corruption, and the environment,     both in the private and the public sector.

Language(s): Spanish, English

Giulia Escurolle is an Italian lawyer and consultant, with a specific focus on corporate compliance and data protection.

After graduating in criminal law, she pursued a PhD at the University of Turin in white collar crimes and corporate criminal liability (Decree 231/2001) and gained experience in this field by working for international law firms in different countries.

Ms Escurolle holds a Master in Data Protection. Currently she advises and provides trainings to companies and professionals in topics regarding GDPR.

She is currently Research fellow at the University of Milano (Statale) in Data governance and Data protection and member of Information Society Law Center (ISLC) – Milan.

Language(s): Italian, English, Spanish, French