Speakers include:

Stephen M. Kohn

is a partner in the law firm of Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto and the Chairman for the Board of the National Whistleblower Center.  As a leading whistleblower attorney with 40 years of experience Forbes Magazine honored Kohn, selecting him as one of “America’s top 200 lawyers”  explaining that Kohn “change[ed]” the “legal landscape” for whistleblowers as he  “He won $104 million for UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, among the largest-ever individual tax whistleblower reward payments, and currently represents Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson in its massive money-laundering scandal. Kohn has helped draft key whistleblower legislation and regulation, including those incorporated into the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank acts.”  Kohn is the most published author on whistleblower law, and his latest book is Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What’s Right (Lyons Press).

Christopher Wylie

a British-Canadian whistleblower, is best known for exposing massive privacy violations by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, and the misuse of millions of Facebook profiles in the groundbreaking Guardian exposé: “Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach; Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters.”  He was the first successful Big Tech/social media whistleblower whose disclosures resulted in billions of dollars in fines and significant corporate reforms. Wylie was recognized in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People and is also the author of *Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America.*

Eliza Lockhart

is an attorney and Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the oldest and most prestigious think tank in the UK. She is the author of the groundbreaking RUSI study titled “The Role of Financial Rewards for Whistleblowers in the Fight Against Economic Crime.” Eliza has provided counsel on anti-bribery and corruption matters, including issues related to election fraud, risk, and compliance.  She holds a Master of Law and an MPhil in Public Policy, both with Distinction from the University of Cambridge.

María de los Ángeles Estrada

is a Mexican lawyer specializing in transparency and anti-corruption. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Transparency and Anti-corruption Initiative of the School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tec de Monterrey, one of the most important and renowned universities in Latin America.  She has a law degree from ITAM and a Master’s in International Law from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.  She currently leads the Transparency, Anti-Corruption, and Digitalization Initiative in Mexico and teaches courses on transparency and anti-corruption at Tecnológico de Monterrey, El Colegio de México, and the Anticorruption Institute of Colombia.

Emin Huseynov

is a prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender, journalist, and whistleblower-advocate. He was the chairman of the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety in Azerbaijan before being forced into hiding to avoid arrest due to his human rights advocacy and reporting.  He spent 10 months in refuge at the Swiss Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, after being placed on a wanted list in connection with criminal proceedings against his media freedom group amid a widespread crackdown on independent media and non-government organizations and is currently living in exile in Switzerland.  In 2023, the European Court of Human Rights awarded Emin compensation, finding that the Azerbaijani authorities violated his human rights when they stripped him of his Azerbaijani citizenship. Today, Emin serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Human Rights.

Eric Hylton

is the former Deputy of the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division and head of International Operations.  He oversaw the sixth-largest US Federal law enforcement agency, with a worldwide staff of approximately 3,000 employees that resulted in over 6,000 investigations recommended for prosecution, leading to thousands of individuals convicted and sentenced. Eric also served as the chair for the OECD’s Task Force for Tax Crimes and Other Financial Crimes. As Chair, Eric led a multilateral commission of 40 international criminal tax organizations to develop methodologies and typologies on emerging global criminal tax and financial crime threats.  Eric is currently an attorney for the Alliant Group and a member of the Tax  Whistleblower Attorney Group.