Sheila Warren

Head of Blockchain and Data Policy; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum

Sheila Warren is the Head of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology at the World Economic Forum. She began her career as a Wall Street attorney before turning to philanthropy and technology for nonprofits over a decade ago. Over the course of her career, Sheila has represented banks, philanthropists, and progressive nonprofits, and most recently serving as the VP of Strategic Alliances and General Counsel at TechSoup. She also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on international grantmaking. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

https://www.weforum.org/

Marco Teixeira

Global Coordinator of the Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration, UNODC

Marco Teixeira joined UNODC in 2011 and the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch, Division for Treaty Affairs, of UNODC in January 2019 as the Senior Programme Officer and Coordinator of the Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration. Mr. Teixeira previously held positions in the Organized Crime Branch of UNODC, where he led the efforts of the global programme related to narcotics control and law enforcement capacity building and international cooperation covering 12 Countries in West Africa and Latin America.

Prior to relocating to Vienna, Mr. Teixeira served as UNODC Head of Office in Guinea-Bissau and Liberia and as Chief of Illicit Trafficking, Organized Crime and Terrorism Section at the Regional Office in Senegal responsible for West and Central Africa, where he provided guidance for a multitude of programmes, projects and initiatives aimed at strengthening regional and global responses to organized crime and other forms of illicit trafficking including the implementation of capacity building to law enforcement agencies.

Lucia Bird

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

Lucia is a Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, and a lawyer with a specialism in data protection. Lucia researches and writes on a broad range of organised crime types internationally, however her focus to date has been on human smuggling, human trafficking, drug trafficking and policy, and cyber crime. Previously, Lucia worked as legal and policy adviser to the Planning and Development Department of the Punjab Government, Pakistan, and before that held the same role at the Ministry of Finance, Ghana.

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Marie-Helen (Maria) Maras

Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Dr. Marie-Helen (Maria) Maras is a tenured Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She holds a DPhil in Law and an MPhil and MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, as well as graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Haven and UMUC. Her academic background and research cover cybercrime and other forms of transnational crime, as well as cybersecurity, data protection, and the legal, political, social, cultural, and economic impact of digital technology. Dr. Maras is the author of numerous peer-reviewed academic journal articles and books, the most recent of which is Cybercriminology, published by Oxford University Press.

@MelaMaras | https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/

Kristin Judge

Founder and CEO, Cybercrime Support Network

To address the needs of cybercrime victims, Kristin founded the nonprofit Cybercrime Support Network and works with federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies to serve individuals and small businesses affected by cybercrime. As a thought leader, Kristin has been seen on the C-SPAN Network, local news outlets and called on by technology publications like SC Magazine and Government Technology, to share best practices for online safety. Kristin was named an SC Media "Women in IT Security Influencer" in 2017. She is a national speaker, sharing cybersecurity best practices with elected officials, businesses and consumers.

https://cybercrimesupport.org/leadership/

Bryonie Guthrie

Content and Partnerships lead, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum

Bryonie Guthrie is on the Strategic Intelligence team at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, focused on content and partnerships for the platform and, specifically, engaging the public sector and international organizations in relation to the platform. Prior to joining the Forum, Bryonie worked in the private equity field in Hong Kong, following completion of her diplomatic posting to the South African Consulate in Hong Kong. Bryonie has nearly a decade of experience working with the public sector and governments, especially in the developing world. Bryonie studied her undergraduate degree in South Africa, at the University of Pretoria, and completed her Masters Degree in Asian and International Relations at City University, Hong Kong.

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