The Corporate Crimes Project is supported by a group of Experts who have advised the Project since its inception and provided extensive expertise on how to improve the investigation and preparation of criminal complaints filed against corporate actors across a range of jurisdictions. Experts include current and former members of national and international law enforcement, academic authorities and United Nations business and human rights professionals. Listed below are some of our core group of experts:
Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta
Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta is a lawyer and a specialist in criminal law from the University of Buenos Aires. She holds postgraduate degrees in Political Science and Sociology (FLACSO) and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Buenos Aires. She is a tenured professor at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and a guest lecturer at various universities in Argentina and abroad. She is the author of numerous academic and journalistic publications. She represents victims of state terrorism in trials for crimes against humanity and has been and is a defense lawyer for political prisoners. She is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Indigenous Rights Lawyers and a member of the Latin American Council for Justice and Democracy (CLAJUD) and the Advisory Council of the Progressive International. She has held public office in the Judiciary, in the parliamentary sphere, and was the first Minister of Women, Genders, and Diversity of Argentina and one of the authors of the bill for legal, safe, and free abortion.
Evelyne Owiye Asaala
Evelyne Owiye Asaala is a senior lecturer of law at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She holds a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), a Master of Laws degree from the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria (South Africa) and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi (Kenya).
Valeria Bolici
Valeria Bolici is an Italian magistrate, currently serving as a criminal law judge in Bologna. She has previously served as prosecutor in Italy as well as an international prosecutor at the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo and at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague. She has worked as a legal officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chambers and within the Office of the Italian Agent before the European Court of Human Rights.
Pablo Camuña
Pablo Camuña is a Federal Prosecutor in the north of Argentina. He has been coordinating the Human Rights Unit in Tucumán for 15 years, where he is in charge of the investigation, prosecution and trial of those responsible for crimes against humanity committed during state terrorism. He also intervenes in cases of federal interest such as environmental criminal law, human trafficking, narco-criminality, and more. Pablo has been teaching human rights and criminal law at the National University of Tucumán for almost 20 years. In recent years, he has focused his practice and academic work on researching the link between business, criminal law and serious human rights violations.
Luke Dockwray
Luke Dockwray is a UK criminal lawyer specialising in financial and economic crime. He previously served as a Senior Specialist Prosecutor in the Specialist Fraud Division of the Crown Prosecution Service. Luke has advised investigations and conducted prosecutions on behalf of His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the National Crime Agency, City of London Police and regional police forces as well as the Financial Conduct Authority.
Mark Taylor
Mark Beaumont Taylor is an analyst and researcher focused on human rights, illicit financial flows, international crimes, and responsible business. For two decades, Mark’s research and investigation into war economies and regulatory options for corporate accountability has been the basis for case building as well as advice to governments, civil society, trade unions, and companies. Mark is presently Senior Advisor, Nansen Program for Support to Ukraine, Norad, Norway’s development agency. Previously, Mark helped found Lysvkert.org, a platform for support to citizen investigations of human rights and environmental harms. Until 2023, Mark was a senior analyst at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, where he led investigations and case building on commercial and other enablers of international crimes for The Docket. Before that, Mark held research and management positions at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Oslo, where he worked on strategic litigation, business and human rights, and sustainability in global value chains.
Ward Ferdinandusse
Ward Ferdinandusse is the Deputy Specialist Prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office. He has taught international and European Criminal Law at the University of Groningen and published extensively on issues of national and international criminal law. As a prosecutor at the Dutch National Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rotterdam, Mr Ferdinanusse worked on criminal cases, extradition proceedings and investigations into international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, torture, piracy and terrorism, as well as the Flight MH17 trial.
Marlon A. Weichert
Marlon A. Weichert has been a Federal Prosecutor in Brazil since 1995. He has been involved in various legal issues, including anti-corruption and human rights cases under both criminal and civil law. Weichert has a strong background in transitional justice initiatives and has led investigations and prosecutions of crimes against humanity committed during the Brazilian dictatorship. From 2013 to 2017, he was a member of the Federal Reparation Commission (the Amnesty Commission). Currently, he is investigating the involvement of corporations with the Brazilian dictatorship and participating in a forum for the memory, truth, and reparations for Indigenous peoples who were victims of human rights violations during the military regime.
Alex Whiting
Alex Whiting is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School where he teaches, writes, and consults on international and domestic prosecution subjects. Previously, he served in the Special Counsel’s Office of the Department of Justice (Jack Smith) from August 2023-January 2025. Prior to that role, he served for four years in the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague as Head of Investigations, Deputy Specialist Prosecutor, and then Acting Specialist Prosecutor. Before he joined the Kosovo court, he was a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. From 2010-13, he was the Investigation Coordinator and then Prosecution Coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, overseeing all the ongoing investigations and prosecutions in the Office. Before going to the ICC, he taught for more than three years at Harvard Law School. From 2002-2007, he was a Trial Attorney and then a Senior Trial Attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where he was lead counsel in several war crimes and crimes against humanity prosecutions. Before the ICTY, he was a U.S. federal prosecutor for ten years, first with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., and then with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. Whiting attended Yale College and Yale Law School. He has published on international criminal law topics and is a contributor to the Just Security blog.
Martin Witteveen
Martin Witteveen is an Appeals Prosecutor in the Prosecution Service in The Netherlands specialized in international crimes and human trafficking, where he has worked for more than fifteen years in high profile cases of organized crime. In 2004, he began serving as an Investigation Team Leader in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he led criminal investigation in the situation of Northern Uganda. From 2008 until 2012, Martin was an Investigation Magistrate for International Crimes in the District Court of The Hague. From 2019 until 2021, Martin worked for International Bridges to Justice in Myanmar supporting local defence lawyers in criminal cases and in 2021 in Ethiopia advising the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. Martin has also served at European Union Mission for the Support of Palestinian Police and Rule of Law and an adviser with the Prosecution Service in Rwanda on its genocide cases.
