Zororai Nkomo is a lawyer, former Public Prosecutor with the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe, journalist and former news editor for Zimbabwe's first private radio station. He is also a social justice activist, anti-trafficking in persons activist, Mandela Washington Fellow and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Leadership Alumnus. He is a Master of Laws (LLM) candidate in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) with the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.

Monique Emser is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator of the Political Science Programme in the International and Public Affairs Cluster, School of Social Sciences, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her area of specialisation is complex crimes focusing on human trafficking. Monique has over fifteen years’ experience in counter-trafficking research and practice. Internationally, she serves as an advisory member on the G-100 Women’s anti-human trafficking wing for South Africa and is a member of Mission 89’s international scientific research committee, while locally she is a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Human Trafficking Task Team, the KwaZulu-Natal anti-trafficking coalition and the National Freedom Network.

Emma van der Wait is the Founder and CEO of Brave to Love, a counter-human trafficking organisation in South Africa. She has dedicated her life to identifying, rescuing and rehabilitating victims of human trafficking. She works closely with law enforcement agencies, gathering intelligence information, analysing criminal networks for the purpose of freeing those that found themselves trapped, abused and traumatised by these criminals and their networks. Emma is the author of the book She is Safe - an exposé of the dark world of Human Trafficking. The book was released in February 2024 and is a top seller. Emma advocates against modern day slavery and participates in a variety of platforms with Government, Law Enforcement, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) including the Media.

Derica Lambrechts is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Democracy (CREDO) and a network member of the Global Imitative against Transnational Organised Crime. Dr Lambrechts is an experienced political risk analyst and her research interests include interaction between domestic non-state actors, the state, and society; organised criminal groups as a domestic non-state actor; environmental organised crime and political security-risks.