A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Kenneth K. Mwenda is a distinguished alumnus of the University of Oxford and Harvard University John F Kennedy School of Government. In 2023, he was elected to the prestigious status of Honorary Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Exeter College which is one of the four oldest colleges at Oxford. Honorary Fellowships at the University of Oxford are rarely awarded and remain the most prestigious and highest honor that any Oxford college can confer on an eminently qualified person. Professor Mwenda is also a recipient of a coveted scholarly award from Yale University Law School. In 2019, Professor Mwenda was a recipient in Zambia of a revered Presidential award, the President’s Insignia for Meritorious Achievement (PIMA), awarded to him for his outstanding scholarly work. Prior to that, Professor Mwenda was appointed by the Government of the Republic of Zambia to the lifetime honor of Tourism Ambassador of Zambia in recognition of his stellar contribution to global thought-leadership. Until 2019, Professor Mwenda was the only known legal scholar in the entire world with two earned Higher Doctorates in two disciplines. He also holds a PhD in Law from a leading British university, the University of Warwick. At the World Bank in Washington DC, Professor Mwenda has previously served as Senior Counsel both in the Legal Vice-Presidency and Integrity Vice-Presidency. He is currently the Executive Head of the World Bank’s Voice Secondment Program in Washington DC. Professor Mwenda has also previously served as Extraordinary Professor of Law both at the University of Western Cape and the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He now serves concurrently as Honorary Full Professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business as well as Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of Lusaka in Zambia. In addition, he has previously taught at American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC and the University of Warwick in the UK. All in all, he has taught at leading universities in three continents, namely, Europe, North America and Africa. Most recently, in 2024, Professor Mwenda held the distinguished academic position of Archibald McDougall Visiting Professor of International Law at West Virginia University College of Law in Morgantown, West Virginia, US. He has also served as Visiting Full Professor of Law at other top universities, including the University of Miskolc in Hungary and the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Professor Mwenda is author of 30 scholarly books and more than a hundred articles in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
Professor Andrew Godwin is Professor of Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School, Director of the Melbourne Law Masters, Joint Associate Director of the Corporate Law and Financial Regulation Research Program at the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law and Associate Director (Commercial law) of the Asian Law Centre. Prior to joining Melbourne Law School as a member of the academic staff in 2007, Andrew was in legal practice for over 15 years, 10 of which were spent in Shanghai where he was a partner of an international law firm. Andrew works and researches in the areas of financial regulation, financial services law, corporate and insolvency law, property law, and the regulation of the legal profession. Andrew has published extensively in both academic and professional journals. He is a co-author of Sackville & Neave Australian Property Law and Ford, Austin and Ramsay Principles of Corporations Law, and co-editor of Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law (Edward Elgar, 2020), The Cambridge Handbook of Twin Peaks Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Technology and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2021). Andrew served as Special Counsel and Acting General Counsel at the Australian Law Reform Commission from September 2020 to February 2024. Andrew has acted as a consultant to a broad range of organisations, regulators and governments, including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, the Australian Federal Police, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. Andrew is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Distinguished Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Law and a member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Business Law Institute in Singapore.
Jan Trzaskowski is Law Professor at Aalborg University. Since the mid-90s, he has been working on legal and regulatory aspects of information technology with a particular focus on data protection law, consumer protection law and fundamental rights. Currently, he focuses on the regulation of AI and data-driven business models, including the role of human dignity (freedom, privacy, non-discrimination and property) and fundamental rights impact assessment. Author of the book Your Privacy Is Important to Us! (www.ypii.eu) [and many other books and journal articles].
