Jeremiah Centrella is Associate General Counsel of Mercy Corps International, a Portland, Oregon-based international humanitarian aid and development organization with ongoing operations in nearly forty countries.  He earlier worked as In-House Counsel for Columbia Helicopters, the global leader in heavy-lift helicopter operations.  Mr. Centrella received his B.A. in Political Economics from Colorado College and his J.D. cum laude from Willamette University College of Law in 2007.

 Ved P. Nanda is Evans University Professor and Thompson G. Marsh Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.  He is Past President of the World Jurist Association and now its Honorary President, former honorary Vice President and now counselor of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the advisory council of the United States Institute of Human Rights.  He is widely published, having authored or co-authored numerous books and articles on human rights, humanitarian law, and other subjects of international law.

Russy D. Sumariwalla served as senior vice president, United Way of America and senior fellow United Way Strategic Institute. After taking early retirement, he was called back to serve as president and CEO of United Way International – now part of United Way Worldwide. The author of several books and papers on nonprofit organizations, he is now president of Global Philanthropy and Nonprofits and currently president of the Southern Oregon Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA in Medford, Oregon.

Anastasia Telesetsky is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Idaho College of Law, where her research focuses on the role of non-state actors in creating and implementing international law.  As a Fulbright Fellow, she worked for the Environmental Legal Assistance Clinic in the Philippines on protecting indigenous peoples’ rights to customary land tenure.  She does pro bono legal work for NGOs including Earthrights International.

Jiri Toman is Professor of Law at the University of Santa Clara School of Law.  He has published extensively on international law, human rights, humanitarian law, economic law, disaster relief law, and criminal law.  Prior to joining the Santa Clara law faculty, Professor Toman taught at the School of Economics and School of Law at Charles University in Prague, the University of Geneva, and several other leading institutions.  From 1969-98 he served as Director of the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva and the Research and Training Center for the Red Cross there.

Barbara K. Woodward is Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a licensed Pennsylvania lawyer and serves as the United States member of the Committee on Non-State Actors of the International Law Association.  Her publications include Global Civic Society in International Lawmaking and Global Governance: Theory and Practice, published in 2010.  She has most recently written and spoken on “The Role of Non-State Actors within the Global Intellectual Property Regimes of the WIPO and TRIPS.”