Alex is the UNODC Cybercrime and Cryptocurrencies Advisor for South East Asia and the Pacific, based in the Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand. In this position he is responsible for building and strengthening the region`s capabilities and response to cybercrime and cybersecurity, including all aspects of cyber enabled and cyber dependent crime as well as online child sexual exploitation. He is doing so by providing technical assistance, expertise and capacity building as well as assistance with policy making and legislative harmonization and representing the United Nations on cybercrime diplomacy matters in the region.

Prior to joining UNODC, Alex was a Digital Crime Officer with INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation based in Singapore, coordinating international cybercrime investigations.

Alex joined the Romanian National Police in the Counter Organised Crime Brigade in 2007 as a cybercrime investigator. In this position he conducted investigations and intelligence gathering on cybercrime as well as performing digital forensics examinations.

Alex originally from Constanta, Romania, holds B.Sc. Law and M.Sc. Business Law.

Takahide assumed the current position in July 2019 and has regularly participated in FATF meetings to represent JFSA. At FATF, he currently co-chairs Virtual Asset Contact Group and has led a series of FATF's outreach with the industry. He played a key role in finalizing FATF's 12 month review report and G20 report on stable coins report published in July 2020. Before assuming current position, he has work experiences at JFSA and BOJ, including the supervision and monitoring of banks and financial market infrastructures. He has degrees of a Bachelor of Laws at The University of Tokyo and of an MBA from Duke University.

Mr. CHEANG Phallin is an analyst at Cambodia Financial Intelligence Unit (CAFIU) where he has worked since 2013. He is responsible for analyzing Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) and writing Intelligence Report to disseminate to Law Enforcement Authorities (LEAs). Furthermore, he also provides AML/CFT awareness to Reporting Entities as well as LEAs. Moreover, he has joint many training courses related to AML/CFT. Besides, he obtained Master of Business Administration from Norton University in 2019 and Master of Professional Accounting from Shanghai National Accounting Institute in 2018.

Mr. Mohamad Nor Azizi b Mohd Nasir is an Assistant General Manager in the Law Reform Department of the SC who has 13 years' experience as a regulator focusing on policy formulation, legal drafting and legal advisory. He is involved in various initiatives introduced by the SC and is part of the team working on reviewing and redrafting securities laws of Malaysia. He is also a member of the working group on the formulation of the regulatory framework for the offering and trading digital assets in Malaysia.

Mr. Alvaro is the Deputy Director of Financial Innovation and Policy Research Group (FIPRG) of the BSP which serves as the primary contact for fintech players in the Philippines, particularly those with underlying BSP-regulated activities. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor with more than a decade of experience in technology-focused areas of supervision as well as in advancing stakeholder engagement under the BSP’s test-and-learn framework. He is heavily involved in the continuing enhancement of technology-focused regulations such as electronic payments and financial services, cloud computing, information security, virtual currency, and electronic money which are the common subjects of applications for fintech services. Currently, his portfolio of projects includes the development of Philippine open banking framework and enhancement of Philippine regulations to cover wider virtual asset providers.

Joining The SEC Thailand in 2015, Peerapong started his career in ICT Department as a full-stack developer, an application architect, and a member of new technology assessment team. He also worked in Corporate Finance Department, involving the process of approving ICO portals and giving advice to potential neat-to-come ICOs especially in blockchain/DLT-related topics. Currently, as an assistant director of SEC Thailand's FinTech Department, he oversees monitoring and prosecuting process on criminal cases that involve the use of cryptocurrencies and digital tokens under jurisdiction of the Emergency Decree on Digital Asset Businesses B.E. 2561.

Peerapong holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering, second-class honors) and a Master of Engineering (Computer Engineering) from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Currently, Archari is the Director of FinTech Department at the Bank of Thailand. Her work focuses primarily on FinTech, digital currencies, digitalization of financial services and relevant infrastructure, such as digital identity. Prior to joining the Bank of Thailand in 2020, Archari worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand for over 14 years in various roles, covering corporate finance, investment management supervision, market supervision, international relations, and FinTech. Her last role at the SEC was Director of FinTech Department.

Archari holds an MBA from West Virginia University, USA. She also holds a Bachelor of Law (first-class honors) and a Bachelor of Economics (second-class honors) from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Kaweewut joined SCB 10X in 2020 as Head of Venture Builder.

Kaweewut served as Head of the SCB 10X Innovation Team at Siam Commercial Bank PCL (SCB). Prior to joining SCB, he led the Express Solution (Innovation Lab) at PTT PCL. He was one of the few people who joined Stanford University’s d. School, USA, from which he brought back experience to apply to innovation development at large firms in Thailand.

Apart for his working experience, Kaweewut ran a “8½ Lines” Facebook page, offering short and precise updates about business innovations used worldwide and podcasts on relevant issues. As one of the founders, he helped design curriculum for Chulalongkorn University’s CU Innovation Hub and served as a part-time lecturer on topics involving innovation at universities and leading organizations, both in Thailand and abroad.

Kaweewut holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering degree with first class honors from Chulalongkorn University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Suppakrit is the Founder of Bit Investment, President of Thai Digital Asset association and a Vice President of the IT Operation Service Department with robust critical thinking and problem-solving skills, which proven experience in organizing IT operations and encourage the team to innovate new ideas in a creative environment. I have a passion for blockchain technology and believe that will change the way of human life.

Poramin Insom, a former Microsoft engineer, founded Zcoin (Soon to be Firo) in 2016, seeking to provide financial privacy and more inclusive mining via ASIC resistant proof of work. He earned a master's degree in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University, where he wrote a paper on the proposed practical implementation of the Zerocoin protocol. He has been instrumental in laying the foundations of Zcoin's technology from implementing the world's first implementation of Zerocoin and pushing for the research and development into the Merkle Tree Proof-of-Work (MTP) mining algorithm. Poramin has been focused on pushing for the adoption of Zcoin into the real world, especially in his involvement in facilitating the largest voting in the world with blockchain technology till 2020. The Thai Democrat Party conducted its primary elections to elect its party leader on Zcoin's blockchain with more than 120,000 participants. He is also integrating Zcoin into the Thai economy via his regulated cryptocurrency exchange Satang Pro. Lately, his work has been focused on Elysium, Zcoin's tokenization layer that allows anyone to build their private tokens on Zcoin's blockchain.

11+ years of business and finance technology-driven projects ranging from Microsoft AX solutions with Harley-Davidson to automated algorithmic trading systems development with KT ZMICO Securities and Krungthai Asset Management (KTAM) for the past 4 years.

Joey is considered as one of the pioneers for the regulation in of the virtual currency and distributed ledger technology space. He co-chaired the Government's working group on Blockchain for 3 years which was specifically established to develop the infrastructure to accommodate a DLT regulatory framework in Gibraltar and was recognised by Chambers&Partners as one of the top 12 lawyers in the world in this space for 2018. Joey is a non-executive director of the Xapo group with a focus on international regulation and policy, and the Xapo representative on the Libra Association. He is also on the board of the IOV Labs group overseeing its protocol layer developments on RSK. He is also ranked as a Bank 1 Fintech lawyer and a member of the prestigious global Wharton Reg@Tech think tank in Philadelphia which brings together fintech academics and Regulators from around the world to discuss issues and current developments in the sector, a founding member of the European think tank (thinkBlocktank) established in Luxembourg, a member of the Digital Chamber of Commerce in Washington where he co-authored a segment of their recent report 'Understanding Digital Tokens, market overview and guidelines for policymakers and practitioners'. He is also on the steering committee of the Global Blockchain Convergence which has developed an expert working group focusing on defining a market integrity standard for the industry and is engaged by Government authorities to do this. Joey also contributed to the various Global Legal Insight publications on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency regulation, as well as the UNODC manual for law enforcement officers . He advises some of the biggest groups in the world in the space and is also an appointed University lecturer on the subject of DLT regulation for legal students as well as being the vice chair of the Gibraltar Association of New Technologies where he is based.

Eddy Travia has been a pioneer investor in blockchain technology companies since 2013 and was recently appointed Regional Director Asia Pacific of IOV Labs through a Singapore-based joint venture between IOV Labs and Coinsilium Group.

IOV Labs develops the most popular implementations of the RSK Smart Contract Network, RIF and Taringa's platforms.

In July 2013, following 9 years as a private equity fund manager in Greater China, Eddy co-founded the world’s first global incubator of blockchain startups and, in May 2014, was named among the ‘Top 3 Most Influential Investors’ at the Blockchain Awards.

Eddy has led early-stage investments in more than 20 blockchain companies around the world and advised several Initial Coin Offerings. Eddy has delivered two TEDx Talks about blockchain, TEDxIEMadrid in 2016 and TEDxINSEAD in 2018.

Eddy has completed the Stanford University Financial Engineering program held in Hong Kong and the Oxford University Algorithmic Trading program.

Paweł is a recognized authority on compliance issues in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. He is an ex-Global Head of AML of Royal Bank of Scotland, having earlier held a similar role at UBS. Pawel’s an expert in compliance and anti-money laundering (AML), with extensive experience conducting global projects for international financial institutions and working with supervisory authorities. A sought-after speaker who has appeared at top industry conferences including COMPLY2018 in New York, Token Market Gibraltar and Startup Grind Europe; his views are regularly featured in media such as Bloomberg, City AM and the Financial Times and has been profiled by Forbes in addition to being a regular contributor to the outlet. Chairman of the Compliance Association of Poland and a member of the advisory board of the International Compliance Association.

Trenson Akana is a Special Agent (SA) with the United States Secret Service (USSS). The USSS is an integrated mission agency that includes Protective and Investigative duties. The Protective mission is to guard and protect the President of the United States, as well as national leaders and heads of other countries that visit the United States (US). The investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the US from a wide range of financial and electronic crimes.

SA Akana started his career in the Honolulu Field Office, where he led many protective advances for numerous protectees in the Asia-Pacific region. He has also directed high profile investigations within USSS’ statutory jurisdiction that have yielded many successful state and federal prosecutions.

As the top Investigator of the Hawaii Pacific Financial/Electronic Crimes Task Force, SA Akana focused on identity theft, bank fraud, and cyber related crimes. Most of his investigations included transnational crimes that required working closely with other US federal agencies, foreign governments, and diverse banks across the Asia-Pacific regions. He is a member of USSS’ elite Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program (ECSAP) and specializes in Network Intrusions.

SA Akana is currently assigned to the Bangkok, Thailand Resident Office. As the Assistant to the Attaché, he has been tasked to direct the Investigative mission within the region, with an emphasis on Complex Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime. He is in charge of liaising with all Southeast Asian countries relating to financial and cyber investigations, involving the safeguarding of US financial institutions, and its global partners.

Police Lieutenant Colonel Chawalit Namjaisat

Education

- Master of Laws from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

- Bachelor of Public Administration, Royal Police Cadet Academy, Thailand

Work Experience

- Inspector Sub Division 3, Economic Crime Suppression Division, Central Investigation Bureau, Royal Thai Police

Ms. Benjaporn is the public prosecutor in Economic Crime Litigation Office practicing cybercrime and financial crime. She holds two master’s degrees in law from University of Cambridge (funded by Thai Royal Government) and the University of Sydney (funded by Australian Government). She has been a public prosecutor since 2008. Benjaporn actively studies the trends of cybercrime and digital evidence handling since she has joined the Economic Crime Litigation Office in 2016. She is a key public prosecutor in her office dealing with cyber-fraud cases and she had been a representative of the Office of the Attorney General in the 1^st and the 3^rd ASEAN Cybercrime Prosecutors’ Roundtable Meeting and Singapore International Cyberweek in 2016 and 2018. From time to time, she shares her knowledge and experience as a guest speaker on law of evidence for TICAC and other law enforcements. Benjaporn continues sharpening her academic talent by giving lectures on criminal law in Bangkok University for nearly ten years and this year the law textbook on transnational crimes which has her as the team authors is going to be published by the Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.

Assoc.Prof.Pol.Lt.Col. Krisanaphong (Tong) Poothakool, Ph.D. served more than 26 years at the Royal Thai Police (RTP) after his graduation from the Royal Police Cadet Academy in 1999. Actually, Tong began his police career at Crime Suppression Division (CSD) in Bangkok. While working at CSD, Tong had been chosen by the Royal Thai Police to work closely with senior administrators in Thailand. These include the Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, the Chief of Central Investigation Bureau, Deputy Chief of Metropolitan Police Bureau and Deputy Police Commissioner.

Tong decided to work as an academic at the Royal Police Cadet Academy for seven years after he received two Bachelor’s, two Master’s and two Ph.D.’s degrees. In fact, he received both Master and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen, UK. In addition, he was awarded Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Criminology from Mahidol University, Thailand.

On 25^th February 2019, he resigned from the police force after that he has worked as the Assistant to the President at Rangsit University since 1^st March 2019. Often, he delivers the lecture to those in different organizations at local and international level. These include the RTP, the Ministry of Justice, the Office of Narcotics Control Board, the Ministry of Public Health as well as law enforcement agencies in Asia, Europe and the US. Further, he has been invited by media to give the ideas of criminological aspects and policing system in various circumstances locally and globally.

Ross works as a data scientist at Elliptic where the data science team aim to enhance Elliptic's blockchain actor dataset through the application of pattern detection techniques and machine learning models. Previous to this, Ross completed a PhD which looked at data mining around cryptocurrency related activity on social media and other public data sources.

Sarah is a digital forensics specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the field. She was the author of the Interpol Global Guidelines for Digital Forensics Laboratories and Malaysia SOP for Digital Evidence Collection. She has also successfully led CyberSecurity Malaysia and Information Technology Authority of Oman into achieving ANAB ISO 17025 accreditation (a US based accreditation body) under the field of digital forensics. She is currently pursuing PhD research in cryptocurrencies. She is a Certified Cryptocurrencies Forensics Investigator (CCFI) and Certified ANAB Assessor (ISO 17025). She now holds position as Strategic Project Manager in Digital Forensics Department of CyberSecurity Malaysia.