Professor Michael Salter is the Director of the East Asia and Pacific Hub of Childlight, based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Childlight is a global child safety institute dedicated to research for impact on child sexual exploitation and abuse. Professor Salter is an internationally recognised expert in child sexual exploitation, complex trauma and gender-based violence. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over sixty papers in international journals and edited collections. Professor Salter is the Chairperson of the Grace Tame Foundation, dedicated to the prevention of child sexual abuse, and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the premier global organisation for the study and treatment of complex trauma. He sits on the editorial boards of the journals Child Abuse Review and the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. Dr Salter is a member of a number of advisory groups, including the Advisory Group of the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children, the Expert Advisory Group of the eSafety Commissioner, and the Expert Advisory Committee of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.

Raphaela is currently the head of the Strategy and International Team in the UK Government Home Office Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Unit which leads the overarching cross-government policy & legislative response to tackling this horrific crime. Raphaela also leads all international engagement with Five Country, G7, UN, Council of Europe and other key partners in the wider child sexual abuse eco-system. Prior to this role, Raphaela has over 10 years’ experience working in human rights and equality law and policy for both the Australian and UK Governments, with a focus on women’s rights, LGBT rights, juvenile detention and prevention of torture, and UN human rights treaty body engagement. Raphaela received an MBE for 'services to equality in Northern Ireland: abortion and same-sex marriage reform' in 2020.