Neville Matthew is a General Manager in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. He has been working on consumer product safety since 2013. Neville also has experience across chemical regulation, environmental protection and managing financial risks to major public programs. Neville started his public sector career in law enforcement in 1986.

Neville has been actively participating in the OECD’s Working Party for Consumer Product Safety since 2015 and was appointed as the Chair of the Working Party as of 1 January 2019. Neville has also represented Australia since November 2018 on the consumer product safety expert Working Group formed by UNCTAD.

Sylvia Maurer is Director for Sustainability, Energy, Food, Health and Safety at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. BEUC acts as the umbrella group in Brussels for its members and its main task is to represent them at European level and defend the interests of all Europe’s consumers. BEUC investigates EU decisions and developments likely to affect consumers, with a special focus on financial services, food, digital rights, consumer rights & enforcement and sustainability.  Sylvia supervises BEUC’s food, health, energy, sustainability, and safety teams. She represents BEUC in Commission working groups such as the Consumer Safety Network. Moreover, she oversees externally funded projects.  Sylvia joined BEUC in December 2007. She studied Political Science and European Studies at the Universities of Bonn, Bradford and Berlin. In 2021 she obtained a certificate in leadership from University of Applied Sciences Koblenz.  

Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development since 5 October 2016, previously served as Consumer Director-General of Portugal since January 2010 and as a Member of the Board of the Portuguese Competition Authority (March 2003/March 2008) when it was first created.

She also served as Portugal's Director-General and Deputy Director General for International Economic Relations, and held senior positions at the Directorate-General for Competition. She worked for over 20 years as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon in the areas of International Economic Law and European Law as well as of European Competition Law and European Economic Law (graduate studies).

Teresa Moreira holds a Law Degree and a Master Degree in European Law (European Competition Law) by the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal.