EXPERT COUNCIL

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PMI IMPACT was able to rely on the profound knowledge of the Expert Council members in the fields of law, anti-corruption, and the fight against organized crime and illegal trade.

The council of external independent experts played a central role in the evaluation and selection of the project proposals for the award of grants by PMI.

Expert Council Members

CARLOS MOREIRA

Mr. Moreira is Chairman, CEO and Founder of WISeKey.

From 1983 until 1999, he served as a United Nations Expert on CyberSecurity and Trust Models for the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations (UN), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Trade Centre (ITC), the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

Mr. Moreira is an author, an internet pioneer, entrepreneur and investor in disruptive cryptotechnology AI, blockchain, IoT and cybersecurity. He is also an expert in M&A, fundraising, IPOs and listed companies.

He is the founder of OISTE.org and the Geneva Security Forum and a founding member of the "Comité de Pilotage Project E-Voting" of the Geneva Government. He is also a member of the UN Global Compact and the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council. He has held various roles within the WEF, including founding member of WEF Global Growth Companies, WEF New Champion from 2007 to 2016, and Vice Chair of the WEF Agenda Council on Illicit Trade in 2012 and 2015. Mr. Moreira is also a member of The Blockchain Research Institute and a founder of the Blockchain Center of Excellence network.

A renowned keynote speaker in global fora, Mr. Moreira has also received numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2018 Blockchain Davos Award of Excellence by the Global Blockchain Business Council and his nomination by Bilanz magazine among the 100 most important digital heads in Switzerland in 2017.

He is the writer and co-author of the book “transHuman Code”.

From 1995 until 1999 he served as an Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering RMIT in Australia and was the Head of the graduate school’s Trade Efficiency Lab.

LUIS MORENO OCAMPO

Mr. Moreno Ocampo was the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), from 2003 until 2012. During his tenure at the ICC, his office was involved in twenty of the most serious crises of the 21st century including in Iraq, Korea, Afghanistan and Palestine. He conducted investigations for crimes against humanity in seven different countries, including Libya, Sudan, the Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Previously, Mr. Ocampo played a crucial role during the transition to democracy in Argentina, as the Deputy Prosecutor in the "Junta trial" in 1985 and the Prosecutor in the trial against a military rebellion in 1991.

Mr. Ocampo was a visiting Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University. After the end of his tenure as ICC Prosecutor, he assumed responsibilities as Chairman of the World Bank Expert Panel on the Padma Bridge project.

Currently, Mr. Ocampo is a lawyer in private practice at New York and Associate at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University.

ALAIN JUILLET
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Mr. Juillet is the President of the Club des Directeurs de Sécurité des Entreprises (CDSE) and of the Académie de l’Intelligence Economique.

Previously, Mr. Juillet served as the Head of Corporate Development at Pernod Ricard, General Director of Suchard, Deputy Managing Director of Union Laitière Normande, General Manager of Générale Ultra Frais, General Director of France Champignon, CEO of Marks & Spencer France and Senior Advisor of the Orrick Rambaud Martel law firm.

Between 2002 and 2003, Mr. Juillet served as Intelligence Director for the French General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) of the French Ministry of Defense, and then assumed the role of Senior Official in charge of economic intelligence to the Prime Minister’s office until 2009. In 2009, he received the rank of Honor Legion Commander of France.

SUZANNE HAYDEN

Ms. Hayden has spent thirty years in public service and law enforcement serving as a senior advisor to members of the US government (Justice, State, Treasury, Intelligence and Defense) and to International Organizations: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA). Ms. Hayden is a licensed attorney in the United States.

A former Senior Prosecutor for the US Department of Justice, Ms. Hayden served as lead prosecutor on over 30 money laundering and drug trafficking organized crime cases and coordinated international investigations on drugs, illicit trade and counterfeiting. She was US DOJ’s first National Security Coordinator and was the DOJ representative to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global standard setter for combatting money laundering and terrorist finance.

She has worked throughout the world providing technical assistance and legislative drafting as a senior prosecutor in the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and was a resident legal advisor in Russia and Turkey. As a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Ms. Hayden established the UN’s first financial investigation unit and led the financial investigation of Slobodan Milosevic.

She currently provides technical assistance and advice to organizations in the public and private sectors, in the area of integrity building, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and countering complex financial crime and terrorist financing.

Ms. Hayden has also been consulting with PMI on law enforcement matters.

NAVI PILLAY

Ms. Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from September 2008 until August 2014. She began her career in 1967, and was the first woman to start a law practice in her home Province of Natal, South Africa.

In 1995, Ms. Pillay was appointed as acting judge on the South African High Court. The same year, she was elected by the UN General Assembly to be a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she served for eight years, the last four (1999-2003) as President.

In 2003, she was elected by the Assembly of States Parties as a judge of the International Criminal Court, where she served until August 2008.

Ms. Pillay is currently president of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy Advisory Council, Vice President of the International Association Against the Death Penalty, Member of The Africa Group for Justice and Accountability, Member of International Bar Association-ICC and co-sponsor of Donor Direct USA. She serves on the Council of the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and is a trustee of the University Foundation.

Ms. Pillay received her BA and LLB from the University of Natal in South Africa. She also holds a Master of Law and Doctorate of Juridical Science from Harvard University.

Former Expert Council Members

Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni

Mr. Paul Makin

Mr. Jürgen Storbeck

Ms Catherine Volz

For a detailed description of the role of the Expert Council and the PMI IMPACT
grant award procedure, see the Grant Award Guidelines (pdf).

Read here the Conflicts of Interest Principles, a document designed to help Applicants
and the Expert Council disclose and manage potential conflicts of interest.