Pedro is the CEO of IPS_Innovative Prison Systems and founder and editor of the JUSTICE TRENDS Magazine. Holding a Sociology degree from UBI and a MA in public policy from the College of Europe in Bruges, throughout his career, he pursued education in Leadership Development, Public Administration Reform and Public Policy, but also in Organizational Design, Digital Transformation, and Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (Univ. of Virginia, the MIT, and the Univ. of Chicago). With more than 2 decades working in Criminal Justice Innovation, he coordinated and worked in 75 projects involving 51 countries, many focusing the development of digital strategies or the use of digital technologies in corrections, having several publications and numerous participations as speaker in international events. Since 2020, Pedro leads the multidisciplinary R&D team that developed the HORUS 360 iOMS Intelligent Offender/Jail Management System.

He is board member of the “BSAFE Research LAB”, board director of the “ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association”, VP of “Health through Walls”, Inc., board advisor of the “Connecting Hearts Foundation for the Children of Inmates”, founder and ambassador of the “All4Integrity against corruption NGO”, and founder and chair of the board of “EaSI, the European Association for Social Innovation”, among other participations in several non-governmental organisations. He is member of the European Commission expert group on the EU Judicial Training, and of the expert group on the implementation of the European Arrest Warrant. Recently was invited by the UNICRI to join the expert working Group on Technologies for Prisoner Rehabilitation. He participated in multiple initiatives as senior consultant for the UNODC in Vienna, Central Asia, and the Middle East. In LATAM works with the InterAmerican Development Bank (BID) in citizen security projects in more than 10 countries. In 2017 he was awarded the ICPA Correctional Excellence Award.

Ezgi Baltali is pursuing a master’s degree in Addiction Counseling an Rehabilitation in the Department of Psyciatry at Demokrasi University. She graduated from Hacettepe University’s Department of Social Work in 2010, and due to her interest in field of juvenile delinquency, she completed a one-year internship at the Ankara Closed Child and Youth Detention Center during her fourth year of undergraduate studies.
In 2011, she started working at the Ministry of Justice, General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses.

She worked as a social worker for four years at Odemiş M Type Closed Penal Institution, for six years at Izmir Children and Youth Closed Detention Center, and for two years at Izmir Probation Directorate. She took part in the preparation of the preliminary application and full application forms for the "Project for Developing a Rehabilitation Programme through Art Activities for Children in Prisons" within the scope of the European Union Presidency Civil Society Dialogue VI Grant Programme, for which the Association of Social Workers is an applicant. She worked as the project coordinator in the Project of Developing a Rehabilitation Program through Art Activities for Children in Prisons, coordinated by the Association of Social Workers.Since 2013, she has been a trainer of training programs for staff working in juvenile prisons and probation offices.