Clare Hammond  is a London-based investigative journalist. She works for non-profit Global Witness, where her reporting focuses on the intersection between natural resources, conflict and corruption. In Myanmar, where she worked for six years until 2020, she was most recently digital editor of investigative magazine Frontier Myanmar. There, she oversaw daily news coverage and set up a disinformation reporting unit. She also led the digital transformation of the newsroom, building a reader revenue programme that enabled the publication to survive the 2021 Myanmar coup. A Google News Initiative and Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting grantee, her work has won multiple awards. She is the author of On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar. 

Elaine Pearson is Human Rights Watch's Asia director, overseeing the work of the Asia division in more than 20 countries. She has conducted numerous human rights investigations in the Asia-Pacific region and around the world. Elaine writes frequently for a range of publications and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post. She is on the board of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women.  Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Elaine worked for the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kathmandu, and London. Elaine is the author of Chasing Wrongs and Rights, published by Simon and Schuster in September 2022. 

Dr Dainius Pūras is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and public mental health at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is also a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Child Development Center of Vilnius University Hospital. Among positions he has held, Dainius was President of the Lithuanian Psychiatric Association, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Vilnius University, and Director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute. During the years 2007-2011 he was a member of the UN Committee on the rights of the child. From 2014 till 2020 he served as a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health.