Trilateral co-founder and managing partner David Wright has initiated, organised and participated in several successful consortia in the European Commission's Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes (FP5, FP6, FP7). He is a member of the Living in Surveillance Societies COST action, of Working Group 2 of the FP7 Think-Trust project, of the European Foresight Monitoring Network (EFMN) and a member of the international advisory board of the iNTeg-Risk project, which is focused on the "Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology Related Risks". He is also a member of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)'s Stakeholder Forum on Future and Emerging Risks, and has participated in four ENISA expert groups developing scenarios and assessing risks associated with e-health, the Internet of Things and air travel, cloud computing, and privacy and trust. He is a freelance researcher on the faculty of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 2004, he held a contract under the EC's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme where he researched and wrote reports on GMES organisational scenarios and the civil protection sector. In 2001-2003, he had a contract under the EC's Galileo programme (in the Galilei consortium) where he researched and wrote two reports, one on three public-private partnership case studies, the other on dual use technologies, data protection, access control and denial of service.  

Kush Wadhwa is the founder and managing director of Global Security Intelligence Limited (GSI), which is a partner in Trilateral. His work in GSI and Trilateral focuses on independent, non-partisan advisory services in strategy, policy development, ethics, socio-economics, risk analysis, pilot testing, training and management. He has participated in research projects affecting the future direction of security and surveillance technologies (e.g., biometrics, RFID, intelligent video content analysis) and emerging technologies and applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, robotics, biotechnology). Through GSI, he has partnered in numerous FP6 and FP7 projects, including SENIOR, RISE and BITE. He has also provided consulting services to NATO, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the US Department of Homeland Security and the UK Home Office, amongst others. 
 
Rachel Finn joined Trilateral as an associate partner in 2010. Her research expertise includes the social effects of surveillance; new surveillance technologies; surveillance and the law; crime, deviance and social control; risk and security; and identity-based social exclusion. She also conducts research on stakeholder engagement mechanisms and privacy impact assessment methodologies, and advises on ethics, policy and implementation. Before joining Trilateral, she was a research associate at the University of Hull, where she took part in an Economic and Social Research Council funded research project exploring the social impacts of surveillance technologies including CCTV, biometrics, drug testing, traffic monitoring, communication and mobility. Rachel has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and is co-authoring a book for Ashgate Press on the social impacts of 'new technologies' of surveillance. She has a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Manchester.