Renate van der Zee is an international journalist with a focus on women's rights. Her main topics are human trafficking and prostitution which she has investigated for over ten years. She has worked for Dutch media like De Volkskrant, NRC-Handelsblad, Vrij Nederland and the feminist monthly Opzij. She also wrote regularly for The Guardian and Al Jazeera English. She published five books – about honour violence, sexual abuse, human trafficking and prostitution.

Mrs. Markovic is the Swedish Ambassador to the Kingdom of The Netherlands and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Permanent Representative of Sweden to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Prior to this, she has been Permanent Representative of Sweden to the OECD and UNESCO and before that, she served as Sweden's Ambassador to the Philippines and Brazil. Annika Markovic is International Gender Champion.

In 2019, President Macron named Luis Vassy Ambassador to the Kingdom of Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the OPCW. Vassy began his diplomatic career in 2004 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. He has held positions at the French Embassy in Washington DC, at the private office of the Defense Ministry, the private office to the Veteran Affairs Minister and from 2014 to 2017, Luis Vassy was Diplomatic adviser to the Defense Minister. In May 2017, he was appointed deputy chief of staff to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs when Jean-Yves Le Drian was named Foreign Minister.

Prof. dr. Conny Rijken is professor of Human Trafficking and Globalisation at Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University in the Netherlands and holds a PhD in Law. She is elected member of GRETA, Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings Over the last twenty years Rijken has researched and published on many different aspects of human trafficking including labour exploitation, the role of businesses in combating human trafficking and the psychological consequences of human trafficking. Before she was director of INTERVICT (the interdisciplinary research Institute on Victimology) and served for ten years as a deputy judge in criminal proceedings. She is trained as a lawyer in International and European law with specialization in Human Rights Law. She is a member of the advisory board of the Dutch Coordination Center on Human Trafficking, CoMensha, and of the board of editors of the Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-related Sexual Violence (JHEC), editorial Member of the Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime and Security and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook on Human Trafficking.

Joost Klarenbeek is the Netherlands Special Envoy for Migration. As ambassador-at-large, Joost works with governments, international organizations and civil society to foster dialogue with countries of origin and transit, and help create solutions to the challenges of irregular migration. He currently chairs the EU-Horn of Africa migration dialogue (Khartoum process) and sits on the strategic board of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.

Shamir Ceuleers is the team leader and spokesperson of the Center against Child and Human Trafficking (CKM), a Dutch NGO which focusses on the fight against sexual and criminal exploitation of minors. CKM is known for their research which contributes to public awareness of human trafficking in the Netherlands as well as to better policy to tackle this horrendous crime. Among other things, CKM effectively lobbied for a more effective approach to tackle buyers who buy sex from underage victims of human trafficking.

Mr. Smidts serves as the Head of the Organized Crime Unit within the Department of Law Enforcement at the ministry of Justice and Security. He is responsible for the policy field of Trafficking in Human Beings (THB), anti-drugs and organized crime. Since 2019, Mr. Smidts also serves as the Deputy director of the Law Enforcement Department. Before joining the Organized Crime Unit, he worked at the Directorate-General for the Police and Safety Regions as a programme manager. In this role, he was responsible for the merge of two departments within the ministry of Justice and Security, the police directorate and the department for the safety regions, and organizing it into a flexible and dynamic organization. In 2016, Mr. Smidts served as the Head of Platform Home Again at the directorate for Migration. The platform Home Again supported Dutch municipal authorities with the housing of refugees. He started at the ministry of Justice and Security in 2012 as coordinating policy advisor at the directorate for the Police, where he worked on the realization of the so-called Security Agenda, which provides for the national priorities for the Dutch police force.

Per-Anders Sunesson is the Swedish (former) Ambassador at Large for Combating Trafficking in Persons at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Currently, he is Deputy Director-General at the Swedish Ministry for Health and Social Affairs. Per-Anders Sunesson has been working both in Sweden and internationally for more than 25 years with human rights issues, social- and criminal policies, children’s rights, legislation and welfare systems. Before serving as ambassador, he upheld a position as Deputy Director-General at The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs where he was head of the Division for Family and Social services. He has also worked several years at The Ministry of Justice.

Ambassador-at-Large for the fight against transnational criminal threats at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Mr Brunet is supporting interministerial efforts and multilateral activities (EU, Council of Europe, UNODC, OSCE), as well as regional and bilateral cooperation's, e.g. policies against human trafficking, narcotic drugs and firearms trafficking. Prior to that, Mr Brunet chaired the 3rd Review Conference of the UN Programme of action on illicit arms trafficking and co-chairs the SALW Control Roadmap Initiative in the Western Balkans. His was previously Consul General in Munich and worked before inter alia at the EEAS in Brussels, the Permanent Mission of France in New York at the U.N. and as diplomatic adviser of the Minister for Labor and Social Affairs.