Antonino Serra-Cambaceres is a lawyer, with a law degree at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 1990, he works in consumer protection and consumer law.    He was the co-ordinator of the legal team at ADELCO, Argentina’s oldest consumer association. He participated in the drafting of Argentina’s Consumer Protection Law in 1992/3.    In 1997 he created the Consumer Arbitration Courts of Argentina, where he was also an arbiter. In 1998 he joined Consumers International, as the legal co-ordinator at its Latin American & Caribbean Office in Chile. Currently, he is its global Advocacy Manager. He worked in projects and programmes at Consumers International that include law development, competition, access to knowledge, standards, CSR, e-commerce, product safety, among others. He coordinated the Euro-Latin American Consumer Dialogue between 2000 and 2003.     He led Consumers International’s representationn in the review and update of the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection, approved in 2015.    He was one of the members of the team that drafted the Latin American Model Law for Consumer Protection, and coordinated the drafting committee of the Familiar Insolvency Law for Latin America and the Caribbean.    He was professor at the postgraduate courses on consumer law and telecommunications law at the Faculty of Law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and taught in several universities such as University of Chile, University of Concepción (Chile), Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), University of Québec at Montréal, and San Martín de Porres University (Perú).  

Kristi Talving has been Director General in Estonia`s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority since summer this year. Main areas of operation are safety surveillance, market regulation and monitoring the fulfilment of obligations arising from the law in the following fields: electronic communication, frequency management and media services; railway transport safety; safety of work, equipment and products requiring special competence; buildings, infrastructure permits and energy efficiency; consumer rights.

Previously she has been deputy secretary-general in Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications since 2017. She coordinated the development of the business and consumer environment, including digitisation, the service economy, foreign trade, and consumer affairs. From 2014 to 2017 Ms Talving led the ministry’s European Union and Foreign Relations Department, with responsibility for policy towards the EU in the fields of competitiveness, transport, telecoms, energy, and foreign trade, as well as planning Estonia’s presidency of the Council of the EU.

She has been a member of government task forces on artificial intelligence, the circular economy and covid-19.

She has been Chairman of Board of Estonian Stockpiling Agency and member of board of Estonian Environmental Research Center, National Metrology Institute and Estonian e-Residency Programme.

Treye Thomas, Ph.D., is a Lead Toxicologist and Program Manager for the Chemicals, Nanotechnology and Emerging Materials Program Area in the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction.  His duties include establishing priorities and projects to identify and mitigate potential health risks to consumers resulting from chemical exposures during product use.  Dr. Thomas has conducted comprehensive exposure assessment studies of chemicals in consumer products and quantified the potential health risks to consumers exposed to various chemicals including flame retardants, nanomaterials, wood preservatives, perfluorintated compounds and heavy metals.

Dr. Thomas played a lead role in developing the CPSC nanotechnology research program, and is addressing the health and safety implications of emerging technologies, including additive manufacturing/3D printing and wearable technology.  Dr. Thomas  serves as a CPSC representative in a number of activities including as a federal  liaison for the NAS Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions standing committee, the UL 3D Technical Advisory Board, and is the co-chair for the NNI Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (NEHI) working group.  Dr. Thomas received an MS from UCLA and PhD from the University of Texas, Health Science Center, before completing a post-doctoral fellowship in industrial toxicology.