Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak served as Prime Minister of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018. In 2020, he was convicted of corruption in the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, one of the largest money-laundering and embezzlement scandals in history..

Yang Amat Berhormat Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim is the current Prime Minister of Malaysia. He served as the 12th and 16th Leader of the Opposition from August 2008 to March 2015 and again from May 2020 to November 2022

William “Bill” McMurry is a career law enforcement and intelligence professional who serves as the CEO of W1 Global. McMurry is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent who served in the FBI’s New York Office for 24 years.

Bradley Hope spent seven years breaking stories and leading investigations at the Wall Street Journal from New York and London. His investigative reporting on the 1MDB scandal for the Journal was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. Along with his co-writer Tom Wright, Hope went on to chronicle the 1MDB story in the bestselling book Billion Dollar Whale.

Clare Rewcastle Brown is an investigative journalist and founder of Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak. Her investigations were featured throughout Malaysia and in international outlets like the Wall Street Journal and The Sunday Times.

Xavier André Justo is a former Swiss banker and former director of PetroSaudi. In early 2015, he leaked information to British journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown to help expose the Malaysian 1MDB scam worldwide. After spending 18 months in a Thai prison on false charges, he was released in December 2016.

Ho Kay Tat has been in journalism for over 30 years. Currently, he is the Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of The Edge Media Group. Kay Tat is credited as the driving force behind The Edge Malaysia and Edge Financial Daily.

Tony Pua is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Damansara from May 2018 to November 2022, for Petaling Jaya Utara from March 2008 to May 2018, and as Political Secretary to the Minister of Finance from May 2018 to February 2020.

George Jabbour is the Councillor for the Helmsley and Sinnington division on North Yorkshire Council in the UK. Jabbour was previously a banker at Goldman Sachs, who was fired for bringing attention to internal malfeasance related to the sovereign wealth fund of Libya.

Tommy Thomas has been a barrister for 45 years. In June 2018, Thomas was appointed Attorney General of Malaysia. During his term, Thomas charged the former Prime Minister, Najib Razak, with numerous offenses in multiple cases related to the 1MDB scandals. He led the prosecution in the first criminal trial.

Woo S. Lee was the Deputy Chief of the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section’s International Unit (MLARS) in the Criminal Division during the investigation into 1MDB. He is currently the Head of Special Investigations at Meta.

Kyle R. Freeny, a skilled trial attorney and former federal prosecutor for the Special Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice's Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), focuses her practice on white-collar criminal defense, government, and internal investigations, and anti-money laundering (AML) and international corruption matters.

Charles W. O'Neal is a retired FBI agent with over 26 years of experience. He is an accomplished federal law enforcement and national security professional leading significant investigation and intelligence efforts, with over 10 years of specialized experience and recognized success navigating the international realm as an FBI attaché serving overseas.

David Smith is a former FBI agent with extensive international experience turned Intelligence, Operations & Investigations Leader, with over 26 years of investigative experience.

John R. Malott served as President of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., from 2006 to 2018. Prior to that, his 31-year career in the US Foreign Service included assignments as US Ambassador to Malaysia, US Consul General in Osaka, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Director of the State Department's Office of Japanese Affairs, American Consul in Bombay, Economic Officer at the US Embassy in Tokyo, and civilian adviser during the Vietnam War.

John Fullerton is the Founder and President of Capital Institute and is the architect of Regenerative Economics. Previously, Fullerton was a Managing Director of JPMorgan, prior to the merger with Chase, and served on the Oversight Committee that managed the rescue of Long Term Capital Management.

Syed Saddiq bin Syed Abdul Rahman is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Muar since May 2018. He is a founding member of the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (MUDA) and has served as 1st President of MUDA since the founding in September 2020.

Patricia Hurtado is a Federal Courts Reporter at Bloomberg News. Prior to Bloomberg, Hurtado reported at Newsday and the Los Angeles Times.

Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s Washington D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News and was previously the Washington D.C. bureau chief for HuffPost, where he led a team that was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winning once.

Akbar Shahid Ahmed is HuffPost's senior foreign affairs reporter, based in Washington, D.C. A native Pakistani, Akbar has reported from across the Muslim-majority world, Europe and elsewhere. In 2022, he won a Boell Transatlantic Media Fellowship to spend the fall focused on reporting in Poland and Lithuania.

Sharon Carpenter is an award-winning broadcast journalist, TV host, and producer originally from the UK. She’s been an on-air personality for some of America’s best-known networks, including CBS, BET, VH1, BBC America, and REVOLT TV.

Jennifer Peros is a two-time Emmy Award winning entertainment journalist who was previously the Editor-In-Chief of US Weekly and Senior News Editor at Entertainment Tonight.