Professor Olga Jurasz is professor of law at the Open University (UK) and Director of the Centre for Protecting Women Online - an interdisciplinary unit focusing on research, policy engagement and creating social impact in relation to women's online safety. Her research expertise is in international law, human rights, legal responses to violence against women (including online violence) and feminist approaches to governance of online spaces and online safety. Since 2024, she serves as an Independent Expert to the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on combating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls.

Professor Jurasz is a leading voice in the field of law & violence against women. She published her research widely, including two books: Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation (Routledge 2019) and Violence Against Women, Hate and Law: Perspectives from Contemporary Scotland (2022). In 2023, she led the project 'Online Violence Against Women: A Four Nations Study', the largest empirical study in the UK gathering data about societal attitudes towards online violence against women and their experiences of such violence.

Her expertise has influenced governments, international organisations, and third-sector bodies in shaping law and policy regarding online violence against women, criminal law, online communications, and state obligations. She has provided expert advice to the Council of Europe on the development of the first digital recommendation on preventing and combating violence against women.

Maria Nguyen is a Project Lead at the eSafety Commissioner (eSafety), the Australian Government’s independent online safety regulator. As part of the Gender and Tech Section of eSafety, Maria contributes to policies and programs that promote safe, inclusive, and gender-equal online spaces. She has been leading eSafety’s contribution to a new National Law Enforcement Training Solution being implemented by the Attorney-General’s Department, aimed at enhancing police responses to family, domestic, and sexual violence, including technology-facilitated coercive control.

Helen Atkins is a Research Activist and studies decolonial feminist praxis at the Regional Coordinating Office of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies (the UWI). She is a research lead for Women’s Media Watch (WMW) Jamaica and conducts feminist monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning for WMW on the WE-Talk project to reduce gender-based violence in Jamaica under Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. In the UK, Helen focused on holistic responses to sex trafficking, sexual violence, and exploitation, and was named one of Britain’s Everyday Heroes by the Prime Minister at the time. She is on the editorial review board of the Journal of International Women’s Studies and is a Trustee-Director of SPID Theatre for youth advocacy and housing justice, recently chairing the charity’s refurbishment board. She holds academic qualifications from the University of Cambridge, the UWI, and prior research fellowships at the LSE and London South Bank University.