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Rueben Lifuka has been involved in anti-corruption work for nearly 25 years. He is one of the pioneers of Transparency International Zambia where he first served as a consultant for the interim contact group which finally achieved chapter status in 2001. Rueben later served as Vice Chapter President of TI Zambia in 2005 and subsequently was elected as Chapter President in 2007. He served in this role until 2012. Later in 2017, he was again elected to serve as Chapter President until 2021. At the international level, Rueben was first elected to serve on the board of Transparency International in 2008 and he served two terms of office until 2014. In 2017, he was elected as Vice Chair of the Board and served with Dr. Delia Rubio Fereira for two terms, concluded his tenure in 2023.

Alongside his role on the Transparency International Board, Rueben was in 2014 appointed to serve as a member of the Council of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC). He is currently the longest serving member of the Council. In 2017, he was appointed Vice Chair of the Council under Dr Huguette Labelle and in 2023, he was elected to serve as Chair of the IACC Council. Rueben also serves on the International Board of the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST), having previously served as the Chair of the CoST Multistakeholder Group for Zambia between 2007 and 2010. He has also previously served as one of the interim steering committee members for the Open Contracting Partnership and a member of the Board of a UK Charity- Build It International.

In Zambia and Africa, Rueben continues to play an active role in the promotion of good governance, transparency and accountability. He previously served as Chairperson of the National Governing Council for the African Peer Review Mechanism in Zambia. He also served on the Technical Committee appointed by late President Michael Sata to review the Zambian constitution. He has chaired and served on many boards of local and regional NGOs and he is a respected and renowned Civil Society leader.

Professionally, he runs an Environmental Management and Governance Consulting firm – Riverine Zambia Limited and provides professional consulting services in the areas of environmental planning, environmental impact assessments and auditing, political economy analysis and general management advisory services to local and international clients. Rueben is also a part time consultant with the Chandler Foundation, promoting the Open Government Partnership in Zambia and Africa in general.

Rueben holds Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) degree from the Copperbelt University in Zambia, a Master of Science (MSc) in Integrated Environmental Management from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, and a Master of Development Policy and Practice from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is also a PhD student at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance with research interest in Power, Politics and influence in the mining sector in Zambia. He also has research interests in corruption and the construction sector, climate change and land governance. Rueben is one of a few Africans who hold the distinction of being a Chartered Environmentalist with the Society of the Environment (UK).

Anand Satyanand is a New Zealander with family links to the Pacific and India. He comes to the IACC after an association with the New Zealand chapter of Transparency International, as a Director and then Patron for three years. He has a long record of contribution to public life and served as the country’s 19th Governor-General between 2006 and 2011. Following that he undertook two roles with an international aspect, first as Chair of the Commonwealth Foundation, the people’s organisation counterpart to the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, and secondly as a member of TI’s International Advisory Council. Prior to appointment as Governor-General, he had been one of New Zealand’s Parliamentary Ombudsmen for two terms, each of five years. In New Zealand, the Ombudsman office has jurisdiction for cases involving maladministration as well as freedom of information. Prior to that he worked for 12 years as a judge in the District Court with a specialist warrant for criminal jury trials. In this judicial time, he also worked as a member of the National Parole Board and in developing judicial education programmes in New Zealand. Born and raised in Auckland he studied and then practised law in that city, some of that time with the Crown Solicitor’s Office and some in a regular law firm. Over time, he has been the recipient of a number of awards in New Zealand and elsewhere, for example, being knighted with an award of Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009, and with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the President of India in 2011, membership of the Royal Order of Tonga by King Tupou V, and the Rotary International Award of Honour. Throughout, he has maintained a number of community interests to do with sport and cultural affairs. He and his wife Susan have three adult children and five grandchildren and live in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city.

Klaus Moosmayer joined Novartis in 2018 as Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer and a member of the Executive Committee. He was previously chief compliance officer at Siemens AG, where he spent 18 years in roles of increasing seniority. He began his career as a lawyer in Germany, specializing in white-collar crime, business law and litigation.

Today, Klaus is transforming ethics, risk and compliance at Novartis in the same way the company is reimagining medicine – by pursuing innovation, using data and digital, and unleashing the creative power of employees to embed ethics into the core of the business.

‘Doing what’s right for patients and society is, and must always be, our priority. It’s a journey, and we remain humble in our understanding that this will take time. But we are well on our way’.

Klaus led the launch of a new Code of Ethics in 2020, based on crowdsourced feedback from employees and on behavioral science. He introduced an integrated risk management system that helps senior management prioritize and manage key risks across the company, supported by a new policy and control framework. And he set up a new process to ensure human rights are further integrated into core business practices, especially third-party risk management.

Klaus brings a global reputation as a leader in the field of ethics and compliance. He was the first head of compliance from a company to be invited to address the General Assembly of the United Nations about the fight against corruption. He leads global integrity, compliance and anti-corruption bodies for business on behalf of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the G20/B20.

As a believer in collaboration, Klaus co-founded and chaired a nonprofit association of compliance heads from major European companies, and is on the advisory panel of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative to further drive compliance standards at an international level.

Outside of work, Klaus enjoys spending time with his family, practicing sports and driving his vintage car.

Marina Walker Guevara is the Pulitzer Center's executive editor.

Before joining the Center, Walker Guevara was deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She managed two of the largest collaborations of reporters in journalism history: The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers, which involved hundreds of journalists using technology to unravel stories of public interest from terabytes of leaked financial data.

Walker Guevara was instrumental in developing the model of large-scale media collaboration, persuading reporters who used to compete with one another instead to work together, share resources and amplify their reach and impact.

Her work as a journalist started in her native Argentina. Her stories on topics ranging from environmental degradation by multinational companies to the global offshore economy have appeared in leading international media, including The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Mother Jones, Le Monde, and the BBC.

She has won or shared more than 50 national and international awards, including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

In 2018-2019, she was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University. During her fellowship, she focused on the use of artificial intelligence in big data journalistic investigations. That same year, she received the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service from her alma mater, the Missouri School of Journalism.

Walker Guevara sits on the board of directors of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and is a co-founder of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP).

The Carnegie Corporation named her one of 38 "Great Immigrants, Great Americans" in 2018 for her work leading global teams of investigative journalists working in the public interest.

JC Weliamuna is a Sri Lankan constitutional & human rights lawyer with 30 years of extensive practice and is an anti-corruption and human rights activits. He was the first Executive Director of the Transparency International Sri Lanka and later served as a member of its International Board. He has played a major part in the civil society movement of the country to re-establish democracy. He has contributed to mainstream anti-corruption agenda nationally, regionally and globally. He has contributed to various national and international forums and institutions in the field of governance, anti-corruption, constitutional, and human rights law while contributing to governance reforms. He has served as a member in public and private (mainly not for profit sector) institutions and higher educational institutions and has worked extensively as an expert with leading international organizations, both at policy and operational level, on asset recovery. He served as the Chairman of Sri Lanka’s first Presidential Task Force for Recovery of State Assets, prior to him being appointed as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Australia. Presently he is serving as an Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Governance, Griffith University.

Rajiv Joshi is a social entrepreneur and activist who serves as Managing Director and a founding member of The B Team, based in New York. He is working actively with some of the world’s most influential CEOs to help redefine the role of business in tackling inequality, corruption, climate change and other barriers to sustainable development. Rajiv has served as a Trustee of Oxfam and as Executive Director and Head of Programs for the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP), the world’s largest civil society alliance working to end poverty and inequality. During this time he led global action towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mobilizing over 173 million people as part of the ‘Stand Up: Take Action’ initiative. He also supported The Elders with their ‘Every Human Has Rights’ campaign and helped spearhead citizen participation in creating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as co-founder of ‘The World We Want 2015’ platform and founding Chair of the Post-2015 Policy and Strategy Group.

Rajiv also serves on the Board of the Centre for Scottish Public Policy. He previously served for six years as an elected Board Member of CIVICUS based in Johannesburg, representing civil society organisations in more than 100 countries. In 2008 Rajiv founded the CIVICUS Youth Assembly.

From 2005-2007 Rajiv served two elected terms as Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament, and has also been a Senior Advisor to the British Council, as well as a publicly appointed member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (Scotland Committee). He also worked as a Senior Public Sector Consultant with CapGemini in the UK. Rajiv holds a First Class Honors Degree in Economics from the University of Strathclyde and a Masters in Public Policy and Administration (MPA) with a focus on International Economic Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Thuli Madonsela is an advocate from South Africa. She is the Public Protector of South Africa. Madonsela is an ordinary member of the Pretoria branch of the African National Congress (ANC). During the apartheid era Madonsela served in the ANC and in the United Democratic Front anti-apartheid organisation. Madonsela was also one of the drafters of South Africa’s current constitution in 1994.

She is an advocate for Gender equality and the advancement of women, Madonsela is a member of South African Women Lawyers Association (SAWLA) and Business Women’s Association of South Africa (BWASA). In 2012, she was honoured with South Africa’s most Influential Women Award. She has authored and co authored several publications including books, chapter, journals and handbooks on gender management and gender mainstreaming.

Under his leadership, the IACC has evolved from a specialised Conference into the world largest independent Anti-Corruption forum and a leading trend setter. Roberto is a pioneer of ground-breaking global initiatives that engage people and experts to devise new cross sectorial solutions against corruption. He is the founder of the IACC Young Journalists Initiative, the Global Anti-Corruption Game Changers platform and the Films 4 Transparency International anti-Corruption Documentary Festival. The Game Changers platform supports initiatives like the first ever Social Entrepreneurs Initiative against Corruption. In association with various independent journalist and documentary networks, Roberto continuously fosters partnerships and cooperation between investigative journalists, film and documentary directors, and social justice advocates. Along with its partner Jeunesses Musicales International the IACC Series & Global Initiatives also host the Fair Play anti-Corruption Music Competition, the world’s first music competition of its kind. Roberto holds postgraduate degrees in Political Science and Development from the London School of Economics and the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree (with honours) in Political Science from the Universidad Iberoamericana, México City.

Roberto has 25 years of international experience in the fields of governance, social justice, advocacy and communications. Roberto is Mexican and lives in Berlin. In summer he can be found lecturing at the Summer School on Integrity in the University of Vilnius, Lithuania.

Paula O’Malley is the Manager for the IACC Series and Global Initiatives, with over 15 years of experience has led numerous large scale multi-stakeholder initiatives bringing together governments, civil society and the private sector to facilitate knowledge exchange, and to design global solutions against corruption. Paula has extensive experience managing multi-million euro programs to protect public resources with open procurement and citizen engagement, and has piloted numerous innovative initiatives to engage young people in the fight against corruption (Paula is founder of the IACC Young Journalists Intuitive, the IACC Social Entrepreneurs, and co-founder of Journalists for Transparency) For the IACC Paula’s responsibilities span from working with national designated government bodies to securing financing, budget monitoring, designing high level plenary sessions, designing and crowd sourcing workshop sessions, overseeing local logistical operations and ensuring the sustainability, relevance and impact of the conference on a national and global scale. Paula holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Public Policy from Humboldt University of Berlin & Viadrina European University.

Patricia Cobos is the Communications and Public Relations Officer of the IACC Series, she has worked in global communication agencies and multinational companies in Europe and Latin America.
With an international experience, she began her professional career in the private sector where she works in the Communication & Government Affairs Department at Siemens Spain. Later, she continued her professional career at Hill & Knowlton and Porter Novelli in Mexico, global communication and public relations agencies, where she participated in the definition of the online and offline communication strategy for multinational clients at regional level. She also worked for IDOM as Communications Officer, defining the image of the business and managing the participation of the company in different events around the world. She is graduate in Media Communication and Journalism (2009).