Nigel Inkster is the former Director of Operations and Intelligence for the British Secret Service (MI6), which he served for thirty-one years retiring at the end of 2006. Following his retirement from the service he became Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His most recent role with IISS was Director of Future Conflict and Cyber Security.

His research portfolio has included transnational terrorism, insurgency, transnational organized crime, cyber security, intelligence and security and the evolving character of conflict. He has written and broadcast on all these topics and has also been engaged in a variety of para-diplomatic activities on behalf of the UK government including leading a Sino-UK Track 1.5 Cyber Security Dialogue.

Mr. Inkster graduated from St. Johns College Oxford with a BA (Hons) degree in Oriental Studies (Chinese).

Alexa Lam has over forty years of legal, regulatory and policy experience, including eighteen years in corporate and securities law practice in Hong Kong, New York and Chicago, sixteen years as a senior official at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), six years as a law professor at HKU and three years as a policy advocate on behalf of global regulated funds. She is qualified to practice law in Hong Kong, the State of New York and the United Kingdom, and holds law degrees from HKU and the London School of Economics.

In her private practice, Ms. Lam advised on corporate and securities transactions, acquisitions and joint ventures, including cross-border corporate matters. After eighteen years of legal practice, she joined the SFC and held multiple roles including Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Policy, China and Investment Products. She led the law reform process that established the Securities and Futures Ordinance in 2002 and subsequently was in charge of applying and administering the SFO. Ms. Lam was responsible for all licensing, supervision and regulatory decisions relating to financial institutions and intermediaries licensed by the SFC, and the public offering of investment products. Later, she took on a new role of driving policies to connect the Hong Kong and Mainland China financial markets. She led the design and execution of several defining projects in the history of China’s capital market opening - the QDII and RQFII programs, the Mutual Recognition of Funds program, and the development of offshore RMB products in Hong Kong.

After retirement from the SFC, Ms. Lam joined HKU as Professor of Legal Practice and served as an independent non-executive director of HSBC Global Asset Management Limited, Hang Seng Bank (China) Limited, and Bank of Communications (Hong Kong) Limited. Thereafter, Ms. Lam continued at HKU as Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor and served as APAC chief executive officer of ICI Global, a Washington-based trade association for global regulated investment funds. Ms. Lam is currently a solicitor and consultant at Raymond Siu & Lawyers, and a fellow of the Department of Law of HKU.

Lord Trenchard worked for Kleinwort Benson Ltd from 1973 to 1996, as Chief Representative in Japan between 1980 and 1985, and President from 1988 to 1995 and Deputy Chairman from 1995 to 1996. He was Director of Dover Japan Inc from 1985 to 1987, of ACP Holdings Ltd from 1990 to 1994, of the Japan Securities Dealers' Association as well as of Bond Underwriters' Association of Japan from 1994 to 1995.

His other roles include Director of Robert Fleming and Co Ltd from 1996 to 1998, Managing Director, Investment Banking, for Mizuho International Plc from 2007 to 2012 and Senior Advisor to Mizuho Bank, Ltd from 2013 to 2014. Trenchard was also chairman of The Dejima Fund Ltd from 2001 to 2009, from 2002 to 2008 senior advisor of Prudential Financial Inc, and from January to December 2006 director general of the European Fund and Asset Management Association. He was also a Consultant to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation in 2017. In January 2018, he was appointed Senior Adviser to Her Majesty’s Government on Japanese Financial Services and former Vice-Chairman of the Council of European Business Community in Japan.

He was educated at Eton College and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1973. Trenchard served in the 4th Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets from 1972 to 1980. In 2006, he became Honorary Air Commodore of 600 (City of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire since 2006 and a Lieutenant of the City of London since 2016. He is a member of the House of Lords and sits on the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee.

James Stent began his banking career with Citibank, working in New York, Manila, and Hong Kong. Thereafter he has pursued a distinguished career in financial services in both Thailand and China.

He worked for 18 years for Bangkok based Bank of Asia, serving as Deputy President of the Bank until his retirement in 2002, and thereafter continued as a director of the bank until 2004. Commencing in 2006, he served six years as an Independent Director and Chairman of the audit committee of the China Everbright Bank, followed by four years as a member of the bank’s Board of Supervisors. From 2003-2006 he was an Independent Director on the board of the China Minsheng Bank in Beijing. He is presently an Independent Director and Chairman of the audit committee of the XacBank of Mongolia.

In 2017, Oxford University Press published his widely acclaimed work China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story, which describes the transformation of the Chinese banking system over the past two decades, and examines the banking system as a prism for under-standing the dynamics of the Chinese political economy.

Mr. Stent received a Bachelor’s degree in History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he focused on development economics. He speaks and reads Chinese and Thai languages.

Marzuki Darusman is an eminent Indonesian lawyer and politician. After fifteen years as a member of the People's Representative Council with President Suharto's Golkar party, he became Attorney General of Indonesia under Indonesia’s first democratically elected President Abdurrahman Wahid from 1999-2001. Darusman has served on several national and international human rights commissions, and in August 2010, became Founding Director of the Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN. Subsequent to his last term as Member of Parliament, which ended in 2009, he was appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to a three-member UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. From 2010-2016 he was the UN Secretary General’s Special Rapporteur for North Korea 2010-2016 and also a Member of UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea. In August 2017, he was appointed Chair of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar.

In addition, he has held prominent corporate roles. He currently serves as Commissioner for PT Freeport Indonesia, which engages in the mining, processing, and exploration of ores containing copper, gold, and silver. He was previously Commissioner for PT Indonusa Dwitama, a holding company engaged in managing and developing a range of investment portfolios including mining exploration and exploitation, financial services, multi-media interactive and information technology, and trading operations in Indonesia.

He graduated in law at University of Parahyangan and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in law from the same university. In 2017 he received the award of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star.