Director
Morten Bergsmo founded and is the Director of the Forum. He has worked with international criminal law and justice since 1993 and currently serves as an academic in China, Europe and North-America. He is Visiting Professor, Peking University Law School (2012 and 2013); Visiting Professor, Georgetown University (2010-); Senior Researcher, University of Oslo; and Visiting Fellow, Stanford University. He is also an ICC Consultant (Co-ordinator of the ICC Legal Tools Project since 2006). He was formerly Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute (Spring 2011); Senior Researcher, PRIO (2006-2009); Special Adviser to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution of Norway (2007-08); Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002-05); Co-ordinator of the establishment of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor (2002-03); Legal Adviser, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (1994-2002); and Legal Adviser, UN Commission of Experts for the Former Yugoslavia established pursuant to Security Council resolution 780(1992) (1993-94). He represented the ICTY to the UN negotiation process to establish the ICC (1996-2002). Since 2005, he has worked more closely with national capacity building, knowledge-transfer and legal empowerment in more than 30 countries. He has published extensively and has had several international consultancies. He founded and is the Director of the CMN.

Co-Convener
Nobuo Hayashi co-convenes a number of FICHL activities. He is a Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (2008-present), where he is preparing a monograph on military necessity. Also, as a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan (2005-present), he teaches semester-length courses on general public international law, the international law on recourse to force and the law of armed conflict. Previously, he was a Legal Advisor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo Law Faculty (2006-2008); a Legal Officer in the Prosecutions Division, Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)(2004-2006); and an Associate Legal Officer in the ICTY OTP Legal Advisory Section (2000-2003). In these capacities, he performed research, provided specialist advice and authored submissions on the law of armed conflict relating to the conduct of hostilities, jurisdictional and procedural issues, definition of offences, modes of liability, co-operation with states on judicial matters, fair-trial guarantees for accused persons and general international law. He has published and edited works in international humanitarian law, international criminal law and legal philosophy; lectured at defence academies, Red Cross conferences and university faculties of law, political science and peace and security studies; and trained officers as well as enlisted personnel in the armed forces, military lawyers, judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, diplomats and other government officials from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. He holds a B.Sc. in Foreign Service in international relations, law and organisation from Georgetown University (1995); a Diplome d'etudes superieures, an M.Phil. equivalent, in international law from the Institut universitaire de hautes etudes internationales (HEI) in Geneva (1998); and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (1999). He was also enrolled in the post-graduate School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (1995-1996), the Hague Academy of International Law (1999) and the doctoral programme at HEI (1998-2004).

Executive Adviser
Alf Butenschøn Skre holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Oslo, specializing in international relations and Middle East studies (with a semester at the American University in Cairo). He is currently pursuing a law degree at the University of Oslo. During his studies, he has worked at 'Doctors Without Borders' and as editorial manager of the student publication 'Argument'. Alf supports the FICHL in various ways, including as an Executive Adviser and as the Secretary of the M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award Committee.

The Forum is incorporated as a department of the international non-profit organization Centre for International Law Research and Policy in Brussels, Belgium, by Royal Decree WL 22/15.887 dated 15 June 2010, with the incorporation number 0827.424.153. It is advised by Sofie Devos, Notary and Partner in the law firm Francois Herinckx and Sofie Devos, Notaires associes - Geassocieerde notarissen, Rue du Midi 146, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.