Martin Purbrick is a consultant, analyst and writer with 35 years of experience leading integrity and risk management. He is the former Director of Security and Integrity at The Hong Kong Jockey Club, and also a former Royal Hong Kong Police officer whose service included Special Branch engaged in counter-terrorism as well as the Criminal Intelligence Bureau in anti-triad intelligence.

Douglas Robinson is the Executive Manager of International Illegal Betting Research and Liaison at The Hong Kong Jockey Club. His main responsibility is to understand and mitigate global illegal betting and sports corruption-related integrity risks. Prior to joining the Club, He worked across a variety of industries in the UK as well as in Hong Kong.

Jack Anderson is Professor and Director of Sports Law Studies at the University of Melbourne with a primary research interest in the relationship between sport and the law and he has published widely in related areas. He joined Melbourne Law School in July 2017 as Professor and Director of Sports Law Studies. In 2021 he was appointed as Director of the Melbourne Law Masters program. Admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2022, Jack was Special Counsel (Integrity Regulation) at Racing Victoria from 2022 to 2024.
 

Graham Ashton is the Former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police. As Chief Commissioner, Mr. Ashton was the key driver in setting up Victoria Police’s Sporting Integrity Unit, which was the first law enforcement unit anywhere dedicated to combatting match-fixing and is regarded as the leading police sports integrity unit in the world.

Stefano Canappele is a leader in international criminology and his main research interests are crime prevention, cybercrime, economic and organized crime. He has a specific interest on gambling related crime impacting sports, and as part of this work leads the delivery of the UEFA ‘Fight the Fix’ training program for professionals to combat sports competition manipulation.

Tom Chignell has over 18 years of experience working in sports integrity. He specializes in implementing systems and processes to detect suspicious betting across regulated and illegal markets and producing analytical reports. These reports have successfully been used on multiple occasions as evidence in sports betting and corruption cases and have also been used by the UK Police and government agencies.

Steve Cornelius is a member of the Independent Doping Hearing Panel of the South African Institute for Drug-free Sport, and an Independent director on the board of Cricket South Africa. Previously, he served on the Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Association of Athletics Federations

Brant Dunshea is the Chief Regulatory Officer of the British Horseracing Authority with oversight of all regulatory and integrity functions of British Racing. He has over 25 years of experience in racing and sports regulation in Australia and Britain.

Luca Esposito is Executive Director, World Lottery Association and General Secretary, United Lotteries for Integrity in Sport (formerly Global Lottery Monitoring System) and has extensive knowledge and experience of technology in betting. Luca has significant insight into how IT is utilized by betting operators across wide geographies to focus on combating illegal betting through the WLA and ULIS.

Brent Fisher is the General Manager Investigations & Intelligence for Racing Victoria since January 2022 and was previously the General Manager Integrity for Harness Racing Victoria from 2017 to 2021 and prior to that with Victoria Police. Brent will represent both Racing Australia as well as Racing Victoria.

Dr Eliot Forbes has over 25 years of racing administration and wagering experience across Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. He has served on the Boards of Racing Australia (RA) and Greyhounds Australasia; and Chaired RA’s Retirement of Racehorses Committee.

Dr. Sally Gainsbury is Professor in the School of Psychology, Leader of the Technology Addiction Team within the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney and Director of Australia’s only university-affiliated gambling treatment clinic. Her widely published research focuses on how to minimise gambling harms including prevention and treatment of gambling problems and strategies to assist people to reduce risky gambling online and offline.

Marc Van Gestel has over 30 years of involvement in upholding high standards of integrity, safety, and equine welfare in the thoroughbred racing industry. He commenced his career as a Stipendiary Steward in 1992, becoming Racing NSW's Deputy Chairman of Stewards in 2006, and Racing NSW's Chairman of Stewards in 2016.

Cliodhna has a career of over 15 years in sports administration and regulation. She has been in her racing role for over five years and had prior sports administration roles with the International Boxing Association, the Football Association of Ireland, and the Paralympic Council of Ireland as well as being a Doping Control Officer.

Kim Kelly was a Stipendiary Steward of the Hong Kong Jockey Club from 2002, and Chief Stipendiary Steward from 2009 until his retirement from that role in 2022. After leaving the HKJC he has continued to work with the Asian Racing Federation as well as the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. Kim is one of the most respected Stipendiary Stewards in the world of horse racing with significant insight into the broad range of integrity management systems and structures in international horse racing.

Claudio Marinelli is seconded to INTERPOL's Financial Crimes and Anti-Corruption Centre from Italian Economic and Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) and he's currently heading the Anti Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Unit within the Centre. Mr. Marinelli has led the work of the INTERPOL Match Fixing Task Force since the creation of this initiative within INTERPOL's programs on Integrity in Sport and continue providing expertise on betting and crime's in sports related instances.

Aahna Mehrotra is the Founder & Principal Lawyer of AM Sports Law & Management Co. Aahna is an expert on Anti-Doping laws having been the youngest person to have served as the Vice Chairperson on the National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel. She is an advisor to Women in Sport India (WISI) and a member of the Governing Council of Ultimate Table Tennis. She regularly advises clients on matters relating to league formulation, transfer of players, sponsorship and merchandising agreements, gaming and betting laws, fantasy sports and contract law. She has been instrumental in setting up some of the major franchise-based leagues, both, in India and abroad and has also worked with several sports start-ups. She also serves as visiting faculty at several sports management schools of repute.

James Ogilvy is the Executive Manager, International and Racing Regulation at The Hong Kong Jockey Club, and has deep experience in racing integrity and legal issues.

Ronan O’Laoire leads the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Programme on Safeguarding Sport from Corruption and Crime, which supports governments, sports organizations and relevant stakeholders through delivering technical assistance, building capacity and networks and conducting research and analysis

Catherine Ordway is Associate Professor (Sports Management) at the University of Canberra. She lectures in Sports Integrity, Ethics & Law and Leadership in Sport. She is an international expert in the field of integrity in sports, and has specialized in anti-doping policy for more than twenty years. Catherine has published on sports integrity, governance and gender equality issues and is a sought-after media commentator and conference presenter.

Jacqui Partridge leads the Integrity Unit that is focussed on a coordinated approach to protecting the integrity and spirit of cricket in Australia and for its participants. The Integrity Unit oversees all disciplinary protocols for domestic cricket and protects Australian cricket from threats of doping, match-fixing and other activities that may undermine the integrity of its competitions and the game of cricket and works with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to align with best practice codes and policies. From 2011 to 2016, Ms Partridge was the In-House Senior Counsel (Commercial & Integrity) for Racing Victoria, and hence she has a firm background in racing.

James Porteous is the Senior Research Manager at The Hong Kong Jockey Club. His team conducts researches into global illegal betting markets, their links to transnational organized crime and their negative impacts on society. Prior to joining the HKJC he was a journalist with the Herald in Glasgow, Scotland and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

Tim Robinson is the Executive Manager of Racing Security and Integrity Assurance at the HKJC. Mr. Robinson and has extensive background in sport integrity and administration, law enforcement, security, risk and emergency management.

Tak Sung-hyun is the General Manager of Responsible Betting, Korea Racing Authority (KRA). He has been taking various positions including racing and business strategy since he joined in 1993.

Pete Sweney has served as General Counsel for Racing New South Wales (Racing NSW) since 2008. Before joining Racing NSW, he worked in private practice as a solicitor for 11 years.

Pim Verschuuren is a co-author of two reports on Sports betting, corruption and Money laundering and has experience running a European Commission program of seminars in 23 EU countries to raise awareness among national sports administrators on the threat of match-fixing. He directed the ‘Preventing criminal risks linked to the sports betting market’ project, focused on the integrity of betting markets.

Kristin Werner serves as Senior Counsel for The Jockey Club. In this role, she works with other members of The Jockey Club’s legal team as well as each of The Jockey Club’s for-profit subsidiary companies and not-for-profit organizations on a wide variety of contracts and legal issues. Kristin is also involved with The Jockey Club’s industry initiatives related to the welfare and safety of the racehorse and aftercare, including the Equine Injury Database, the Thoroughbred Incentive Program and the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance..