Kerim Yildiz is the Chief Executive of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, a human rights organisation securing redress for survivors of human rights violations and to preventing future abuses. A Kurd and former refugee from political persecution, he is a spokesperson for issues of human rights, minority rights and international law. He is the author of The Future of Kurdistan (Pluto, 2011) and The Kurds in Iraq (Pluto, 2007).

Mark Muller is a leading barrister specialising in international human rights cases and criminal related litigation both at home and abroad. He is chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC), chair of the Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) and a director of the EUTCC (EU Turkey Civic Commission), each of which he helped establish. He is co-author of The European Union and Turkish Accession (Pluto, 2008).