Sylvia Mercado Kierkegaard is a Professor (PHD Supervisor) at the Communications Universityof China  (Beijing, Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton (England) and will be a Visiting Professor at Renmin University (Bejing). She has authored over 2000 articles, which have appeared in leading journals, books, newspapers and magazines. She is  the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology (JICLT),  the International Journal of Private Law (Inderscience) and the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry. She is an Associate Editor, Managing Editor and member of the editorial board of over 25 international journals. She is a regulatory expert for the Council of Europe and an EU legal expert on information society. She is listed as a global expert resource person on cyberlaw and a member of several working groups and committes involved in the study of proposals for revisions or recommendations of legislations. She is a recipient of three international journalism awards and is currently president of the International Association of IT Lawyers (www.iaitl.org).

Joseph F. Borg is currently the Director Legal and Enforcement of the Lotteries and Gaming Authority - Malta and has been occupying this post for almost two years. Before joining the Authority, Joseph, acted as a Legal Counsel to Vodafone Malta Limited for three years.

Joseph was conferred with an LL.M. in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), with Distinction. Earlier, he was awarded the LL.D. from the University of Malta, after writing and successfully defending a thesis entitled, 'Protection of Trademarks Against Domain Names'. In November 2000, Joseph graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Legal and Humanistic Studies. Joseph went on an Erasmus Exchange in 2002 at the Facolta di Giurisprudenza of the Universita' degli Studi di Bologna.

He has recently completed a Regulator Development Program organized by the International Gaming Institute at the University of Las Vegas in Nevada.