Hai Thanh Luong is a Lecturer in Criminology at Griffith University. His research concentrates on cybercrime, transnational organised crime, drug trafficking, and migrant smuggling. He is the author of Transnational Drug Trafficking across the Vietnam-Laos Border (2019), a translator of Herding Cats (To Giang), and has written numerous articles on Vietnamese organised crime.

Filip Kraus is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian Studies and a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Excellence Sinophone, Faculty of Art, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. He focuses on social and cultural anthropology of Vietnamese society; Vietnamese migration and diaspora; or Vietnamese organised Crime.

Miroslav Nozina is an Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. He specialises in social anthropology and cultural criminology, as well as Southeast Asian studies. His recent research focuses on Vietnamese organised crime, drug-related issues, and wildlife crime.

Daniel Silverstone is the Director of the School of Law and Justice Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. He has a longstanding interest in the smuggling and trafficking of Vietnamese migrants into and across the United Kingdom. His research is in the area of serious and organised crime and its policing, and he works he works as an independent expert witness in the English and Scottish courts.