Richard L. Cassin is the creator and principal writer of the FCPA Blog.

He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics in 2010 by Ethisphere Magazine, and the FCPA Blog was listed by the Risk Management Monitor as one of the ten best risk-management and insurance-industry blogs.

Over the years, he has presented his ideas about the FCPA and anti-corruption enforcement to Silicon Valley CEOs, international bankers, law professors, company boards and management, auditors, journalists, students, and others. He dissects enforcement practices and policies and interprets their long and short-term implications.

Cassin's articles about compliance have appeared in the Wall Street Journal (Asia), the Financial Times, the Business Times (Singapore) and many other leading publications. His influential opinions are often cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal Online, Business Week, Compliance Week, Bloomberg's news wire, Reuters, Fox News, and others.

He supports global compliance and the aims of the FCPA and laws like it. Through his talks, he provides audiences with an update on where FCPA and global anti-corruption enforcement has been and forecasts where it will go in the months and years ahead.

Michael Volkov is a former federal prosecutor with almost 30 years' experience in a variety of government positions and private practice. He has handled a number of high-profile criminal cases brought under a wide range of national and international laws, including those covering environmental, antitrust, international traffic in arms (ITAR), money laundering, online gambling, fraud, false claims and other complex crimes as well as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other international bribery laws.

Before entering private practice, Michael served for more than 17 years as a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in the District of Columbia; for 5 years as the Chief Crime and Terrorism Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Chief Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Counsel for the Senate and House Judiciary Committees; and for six years as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and a Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. Michael's blog, White Collar Defense and Compliance, is widely read and highly regarded by his peers in the industry, and his upcoming book Corruption, Crime and Compliance will be released in September.

Scott Harrison is the founder and managing director of Pacific Strategies and Assessments (PSA) Limited an international consultancy with offices located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila and Bangkok. He brings a wealth of intelligence and security expertise to FreedomNow.org, developed over a long and distinguished career with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Before founding PSA in late 1999, Mr. Harrison pursued a 30-year career in Asian and African foreign policy and national security affairs with the CIA. A longtime Asia resident, he has served in US embassies in Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and China. In total, he spent 24 years' service living in Asia and Africa.

During this time, he held a number of executive positions in operations, and served as overseas chief of station and deputy chief of station on several occasions. He was vice chairman of an executive panel tasked to review CIA counter-narcotics strategies for Asia and performed an emergency two-month national security assignment to a Central Asian Republic.

Before retiring, Mr. Harrison was a Program Manager in the Central Intelligence Crime and Narcotics Center, where he co-directed the consolidated efforts of 15 federal law enforcement and intelligence community agencies targeting international heroin-trafficking organizations. Previously, he led three political fact-finding missions to Yugoslavia in 1997/1998.

His outstanding service to the US government is reflected in the awards he received over the course of his career. These include the CIA Career Intelligence Medal (1999); four CIA Exceptional Performance Awards (1990-1994); a Meritorious Unit Citation for the resolution of Prisoner-of-War/Missing in Action (POW-MIA) issues before the US Congress (1994); and a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Ceremonial Sword (1984).

During his Asian tour of duty, he received a US Army Medallion of Appreciation for election monitoring support to UN-supervised presidential elections in Cambodia (1993); and plaques of appreciation from the Royal Malaysian Police, Malaysian Defense Ministry, and the Office of the Malaysian Prime Minister (1990). In recognition of his contribution to US-China relations, the People's Republic of China awarded him a Medallion of Appreciation (1997).

Mr. Harrison is also the recipient of a Meritorious Unit Citation for crisis reporting from the Horn of Africa (1992) and a Presidential Superior Honor Award for support rendered to the exodus of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia (1992).

Mr. Harrison has completed several executive courses in intelligence, foreign policy, and international affairs. These include the FBI Academy Leadership Seminar for Senior US Government Law Enforcement & Intelligence Community Officials (1999); Harvard University's Foreign Policy Seminar for Senior Government Officials (1994); and the University of Virginia & American University graduate school extension courses in International Relations in Washington D.C. (1969). He holds a Bachelors degree in International Relations from Florida State University (1967) and a Masters degree in Diplomatic & 20th Century History from the same institution (1969).