Speakers IACC 2024

President Gitanas Nausėda

President of the Republic of Lithuania

President Gitanas Nausėda was born on May 19, 1964, in Klaipėda. In 1987, he received a bachelor’s degree in economics and continued his studies in the master’s program. In 1993, he became Doctor of Economic Sciences. From 1990 to 1992, he studied at the University of Mannheim in Germany under prestigious DAAD scholarship. Before he was elected President, Gitanas Nausėda worked in both private and public sectors. This experience shaped his broad and comprehensive approach to the economy. His career in the public sector started in 1993 as Head of the Financial Markets Department at the Lithuanian Competition Council. One year later, he moved on to work at the Bank of Lithuania and became Director of the Monetary Policy Department in 1996. From 1998 to 2000, he was member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania.

From 2008 to 2018, Gitanas Nausėda was adviser to the chairman of SEB Bank – a leading bank in Lithuania – and its chief economist. During this time, he was actively involved in academic activity, becoming associate professor at Vilnius University International Business School in 2009.

In 2018, Gitanas Nausėda left SEB Bank to run for President of the Republic of Lithuania. He was elected on May 26, 2019, and inaugurated as President on July 12.

Ingrida Šimonytė

Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania

Ingrida Šimonytė has been the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania since December 2020. She was elected as a Member of the Lithuanian Parliament (the Seimas) twice – first in 2016 and again in 2020. During her tenure in the 2016-2020 Parliament, she served on various committees, including the Committee on European Affairs, Anticorruption Commission, Commission for the Rights of People with Disabilities, and also chaired the Committee on Audit. Starting in 2013, she became a Member of the Board at the Bank of Lithuania, and concurrently held positions as a lecturer and the President of the Council of Vilnius University. Ms Šimonytė also served as the Minister for Finance of the Republic of Lithuania from 2009 to 2012.

President Bernardo Arévalo

President of the Republic of Guatemala 2024-2028

Member of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala (2020-2024) and Secretary General of the Semilla Movement (2022-2025).

Without prior involvement in partisan politics, the political crisis in Guatemala propelled him to participate in the founding of the Semilla Movement.

Ph.D. in Philosophy from Utrecht University (Netherlands) and Bachelor of Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).

Until December 2019, he served as Senior Advisor for Peace Consolidation in the International Advisory Team of Interpeace (IPAT).

He has led several initiatives and programs for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Interpeace, seeking the transformation of the state security apparatus.

He was Deputy Director-General for Research and Development at Interpeace between 2011 and 2013.

Between 2005 and 2011, he was Director of the Joint Program Unit of the United Nations and Interpeace with UNOPS, supporting research and dialogue strategies for peace in Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, and Liberia, among others.

He served as Director and Head of the Interpeace Regional Office for Latin America between 1999 and 2005.

Between 1996 and 1998, he participated in post-conflict consensus management following the signing of the Peace Accords in Guatemala.

He served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala for over 12 years, holding various positions, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Spain.

He is the author of several books and articles published in Guatemala and abroad. He is a member of the International Commission for Inclusive Peace, a global initiative that seeks to redefine peacebuilding strategies worldwide.

Linas Pernavas

Director of the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania / President of the EPAC/EACN

Mr Linas Pernavas from the 19th of June, 2023 is serving as a Director of the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania.

In 1999 he graduated from the Lithuanian University of Law, in 2005 from Vilnius University and obtained a Master of Law qualification.

With a career spanning over two decades, Mr Pernavas joined the interior affairs system in 1995 and steadily climbed the ranks. His career began at the Ignalina District Police Headquarters.

In 2005-2008 he was the Chief of Zarasai District Police Headquarters, in 2008-2014 he served as a Chief of Utena County Police Headquarters and in 2014 he was a Chief of Kaunas District Police Headquarters.

Between 2014 and 2019 he was the Commissioner General of Lithuanian Police.

Mr. Pernavas launched the Police reform which increased public safety, increased the number of police officers on patrol and improved working conditions for officers. The reform made it possible to double the number of officers on the streets, to respond more quickly to the most dangerous calls, and to raise officers’ salaries. During his service as the Commissioner General of Lithuanian Police the public trust in police was on the rise and the highest.

Mr. Pernavas together with other heads of the Lithuanian Police established the Charity and Support Fund for Police Employees. The main and only purpose of the fund is to help officials and employees in extremely critical and difficult situations.

From 2019 (November) till 2023 (June) he served as Lithuania’s police attaché to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and remained there.

In May 2023 the Lithuanian Parliament approved Mr Pernavas as the director of the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania. The agency’s main functions are the investigation of corruption cases, corruption prevention, and anti-corruption intelligence.

In 2023 he was elected as the President of the European Partners Against Corruption (EPAC) and the European Union Anti-Corruption Contact Network (EACN). EPAC/EACN is the largest and oldest European network of anti-corruption authorities and police oversight bodies. The aim of the EPAC/EACN network is to strengthen cooperation in the exchange of good practice in the fight against corruption and police oversight.

Mr Pernavas was awarded numerous times throughout his career: the Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Grand Duke Gediminasof Lithuania, the Medal of the Lithuanian Armed Forces “For Merit”, the 1st Degree Cross “100 for Estonian Police”, the 1st Degree Badge of Honour of the Dignitary Protection Service and many other.

Ghada Fathi Waly

Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Ghada Fathi Waly is the Director-General/ Executive Director of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) since 1 February 2020, following her appointment by Secretary-General António Guterres. She holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Ms. Waly’s work experience includes 28 years in the field of poverty reduction and social protection. She served as Minister of Social Solidarity of Egypt from March 2014 until December 2019. She also served as the Coordinator of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Social Justice and chaired the Executive Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs in the League of Arab States from 2014 to 2019. She was the Chairperson of Nasser Social Bank, a pro-poor developmental financial institution. She chaired the boards of the National Center for Social and Criminology Research, the National Fund for Drug and Addiction Control and the National Authority of Pensions and Social Insurance, which serves 25 million Egyptians.

Prior to that, she held leadership positions as Managing Director of Social Fund for Development (SFD), a multimillion-dollar SME Fund, and as Assistant Resident Representative for poverty reduction at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where she was responsible for coordinating the Millennium Development Goals reports and launched the National Strategy for Micro Finance. She was also Program Director of CARE International in Egypt, working in the field of poverty alleviation, and Chairperson of the Red Crescent Association.

Richard Nephew 

Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption, U.S. Department of State

Secretary Blinken announced Richard Nephew as the Department of State’s Coordinator on Global Anti-Corruption on July 5, 2022.  Nephew is returning to the Department from Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, where he was a Senior Research Scholar.  He is a published author, including of a book, chapters for edited volumes, and articles on sanctions, deterrence, and nuclear proliferation.  Prior to his tenure at Columbia, Nephew served as deputy special envoy for Iran, Principal Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy, and Director for Iran on the National Security Staff.  He also served in the Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, as well as in the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security at the Department of Energy.  Nephew holds an MA in Security Policy Studies and a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University. 

Marija Pejčinović Burić

Secretary General of the Council of Europe

• June 2017 – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
• May – November 2018 Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
• November 2016 – June 2017 State Secretary, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
• 2013 – 2016 European Policy Expert – Independent consultancy (work on EU, UNDP and bilaterally funded projects in the candidate and potential candidate countries, as well as in European Neighbourhood countries)
• 2008 – 2011 Deputy in the Croatian Parliament (HDZ): Chairperson – Delegation of the Croatia – EU Joint Parliamentary Committee; Head of the delegation of the Croatian Parliament to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Member of the European Integration Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, the National Committee for the Follow-up of Negotiations; Member or alternate member of the Croatian Parliament delegations to Parliamentary Assemblies (PA) of: the Council of Europe, the Western European Union, the Parliamentary Mediterranean Union; Member of the Parliamentary Public Relations Committee, PA Western European Union; the Economic and Development Committee, PA Council of Europe; Chairperson of the Sub-committee for Development, PA Council of Europe; Chairperson of the Croatian – USA Friendship Society in the Croatian Parliament
• 2005 – 2008 State Secretary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration
• 2004 – 2005  State Secretary, the Ministry of European Integration
• 2000 – 2004 Assistant Minister, the Ministry of European Integration
• 2006 – 2008  Member of the Croatian Negotiation Team for membership in the EU, Negotiator for Chapters: 30 External Relations, 31 Foreign, Security and Defense Policy, 34 Institutions and 35 Other Issues
• 2005 – 2006 Member of the working group “Free movement of capital” in the Croatian Negotiation Team for EU membership
• 2006 – 2008  Chairperson for Croatia in the EU Stabilisation and Association Committee
• 2005 – 2006 National Coordinator for Assistance Programmes and Co-operation with the EU
• 2004 – 2006 National Coordinator for ISPA Programme
• 2000 – 2001 Member of Negotiating team for Stabilisation and Association Agreement Croatia – EU
• 1997 – 2000  Director of Corporate Communications, PLIVA Inc., Zagreb
• 1995 – 1997  Director of the Europe House Zagreb, Zagreb
• 1991 – 1994 Secretary General of the Europe House Zagreb; Deputy Secretary General of the European Movement Croatia
• 1988 – 1991 Expert Associate for Foreign Trade, “Končar Engineering”, Zagreb

Other Work Experience

• 2003 – 2011; 2017 –  Lecturer at the seminars of the Diplomatic Academy of Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, History of European Integration and Founding Treaties; Parliamentary Democracy; EU Institutions and the Decision   Making Process; Croatia as the member of European Union – challenges and opportunities
• 2012 – 2013  Lecturer at the seminars of the State School for Public Administration – the Lisbon Treaty
• 1991 – Lecturer at seminars and conferences on European integration in Croatia and abroad

Board Memberships and Projects

• President of the Initiative – Partnership for Open Government, Croatia, 2017
• Member of the Board of Directors of CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies), Brussels, since 2016
• Member of the Board of Management of the Alliance française in Zagreb, 2003 – 2013
• Member of the Board of Management of the Foundation for Civil Society Development, 2003 – 2008; 2017
• Member of the Steering Committee of the “Public Administration” magazine, since 2005
• Participant in the scientific project “Europeisation of the Croatian Public Administration”, 2006 – 2011
• Member of the Steering Committee of the “civilsociety.hr” magazine,  2004 – 2008
• Representative of the Republic of Croatia at Le Conseil permanent de la Francophonie 2012 – 2015
• Vice-President for Central Europe, Institute Robert Schuman for Europe (IRSE), Chantilly, 1996 – 1997
• Representative of the Croatian Section at the European Committee of the Europe at School/ L’Europe à l’Ecole, 1995 – 1996
• Permanent Representative of the Republic of Croatia, Alps Adriatic Working Community, Working Group for Youth, 1991 – 1993

Author and editor of articles on topics related to European Integration

• Role of the Croatian Parliament in the European Integration, Etudes européennes, ENA, Strasbourg, 2011
• Reversing the sharp Decline in Youth Unemployment, Report to the PA Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2011
• Council of Europe as a Promoter of European Integration: Case Study Croatia, Crossroads, Skopje, 2010
• The Efficiency of the Use of the EU Pre-Accession Funds in Croatia, Croatian Public Administration – 3, Zagreb, 2010
• EUphorie in Kroatien, Kulturreport, Fortschritt Europa, Stuttgart, 2004
• Should we discard Croatian Identity while joining the EU?, Croatian Identity in the EU, Centre for Advancing of the Church Social Tenet, Zagreb, 2003
• A brief Overview of the History of European Integration, Croatia and Europe, European Movement Croatia and Europe House Zagreb, Zagreb 1997
• Co-operation in the south-east Europe, Europe House Zagreb Seminar, Zagreb, 1996
• Last Chance for Peace in Bosnia and Croatia, The Sunday Times, Valletta, February, 1996
• Istria and European Integration, Istrian Club Conference, Zagreb, 1995
• Phare: a part of Strategy for EU Integration, Europe House Zagreb Seminar, 1995
• All about Phare Programme, Pan Liber, Osijek, 1994
• The Goals and Consequences of the Previous Enlargements, Europe House Zagreb Seminar, April 1994
• The European East Today: Romania and Bulgaria; Hungary and Albania EM Magazine, Zagreb, May-June 1994
• L’Elargissement de l’Union européenne, Collège d’Europe, La these de DEA, Bruges – Varsovie, 1994
• Editor in Chief of PLIVA Magazine (1997 – 1999) and Euroforum, Magazine of the Ministry of the European Integration of the Republic of Croatia (2002 – 2005)

Dunja Mijatovic

Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe

Dunja Mijatović was elected Commissioner for Human Rights on 25 January 2018 by the Parliamentary Assembly and took up her position on 1 April 2018. She is the fourth Commissioner, succeeding Nils Muižnieks (2012-2018), Thomas Hammarberg (2006-2012) and Alvaro Gil-Robles (1999-2006).

National of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she has been working to promote and protect human rights for the past two decades, thus acquiring extensive knowledge in the field of international monitoring, in particular as regards freedom of expression.

Prior to her appointment as Commissioner for Human Rights, she has served as OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010-2017), Director of Broadcast of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2010), Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies (2007–2010) and of the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists on Freedom of Expression and Information in Times of Crisis (2005-2007).

Dunja Mijatović has regularly given lectures in national and international fora and has been awarded several human rights prizes. She has also been active in supporting NGO activities in the field of human rights education and asylum.

Mouhamadou Diagne

Vice President Integrity, World Bank Group

Mouhamadou Diagne serves as the Vice President of Integrity (INT) at the World Bank Group. In this role, Diagne oversees the independent unit responsible for conducting investigations of fraud and corruption allegations involving projects and activities financed by the World Bank Group, as well as World Bank Group staff and corporate vendors; pursuing and litigating sanctions for credible allegations; introducing best practices in preventing fraud and corruption into World Bank Group operations; and helping to raise compliance standards among private sector entities.

Diagne has more than 25 years of experience managing teams in the fight against fraud and corruption. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Inspector General of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, one of the world’s largest international health financing mechanisms. In this capacity, Diagne led both the Investigations and the Audit functions of the organization and oversaw investigations of alleged fraud, corruption, misappropriation, and other forms of abuse in Global Fund financed programs as well as in corporate operations.

Before joining the Global Fund, he was the Director of Strategy and Operations for Internal Audit at the World Bank Group, where he led the strategic shift from compliance-audits to more strategic risk-based audits. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Diagne was the Director of Internal Audit at Fannie Mae, one of the largest financial institutions in the US and the largest provider of mortgage financing in North America, and also worked in managerial positions in international public accounting firms, among other positions.

Mitzi Jonelle Tan

Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP)

Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a full-time climate justice activist based in Metro Manila, Philippines. She is an organizer with Fridays For Future International and FFF MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas) making sure that voices from the Global South are heard, amplified, and given space. She is also part of the steering committee of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Youth Climate Justice Fund. A strong voice on anti-imperialism, anti-colonization, and the intersectionality of the climate crisis, she is committed to changing the system and building a world that prioritizes people and planet, not profit, through collective action, system change, love and joy.

François Valérian

Chair, Transparency International

François Valérian was elected Chair in 2023. Since 2019 he had been a member of the International Board where he was active in various committtees, including the Membership Accreditation Committee, which he chaired until 2022. From 2013 to 2023 he was a member of the board of Transparency International France, where he worked on illicit financial flows, political integrity and strategic litigation. Formerly the leader of business integrity programmes at the Transparency International Secretariat, François initiated Transparency International’s advocacy at the G20 around financial regulation and anti-corruption. In his professional career, François worked both in public and private sectors. He negotiated social agreements with coal mine trade unions, worked for BNP Paribas and was a partner at Accenture. He was the editor-in-chief of the Annales des Mines, an economic review. He was an associate professor of finance at CNAM and taught financial regulation and oversight at École des Mines de Paris, a course he created in 2013. He is the author of several books and articles, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris, and holds a PhD in History.

Pia Ranada

Community Lead, Rappler

Pia Ranada is Rappler’s Community Lead, in charge of linking our journalism with communities for impact. Previously, she was an investigative and senior reporter for Rappler. She is best known for her coverage of the Rodrigo Duterte administration when she was Rappler’s Malacañang reporter.

She has also covered international affairs, security, environment, climate change, and disasters.

In 2021, she was named a panelist at the prestigious Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar which recognizes Filipino journalists for outstanding work. In 2022, she was named one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS 2022). She was a 2022 to 2023 John S. Knight International Journalism Fellow at Stanford University where she studied disinformation and engaged journalism.

She graduated magna cum laude from Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in communication, after which she worked as a writer-producer for a late-night newscast on GMA. She is also a Carlos Palanca Award winner.

Follow her on Twitter via @piaranada.

Luísa Franco Machado

Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Luísa Franco Machado is an award-winning international activist for digital rights and data justice. She is also a technical advisor in feminist data governance and intersectional AI ethics for international organizations worldwide. Luísa has spent most of their career carrying on policy research at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Sciences Po Paris on the intersection between technology and socio-economic development.

Luísa is a prominent voice advocating for youth participation in policy-making. At the 75th UN General Assembly they publicly evoked the need for greater youth participation in tech policy decisions. Luísa has also co-led key youth negotiations on data ethics at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, and advanced AI and international development policy research at UN DESA, OECD.AI, and GIZ.

By sharing her research findings in an accessible language on social media, she has reached more than 10 million people with her multilingual content. In 2022, the United Nations recognized her as a global Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in 2023 she made it to the Future Minds 25 Under 25 list. 2024 marks her 12th year advocating for civil and human rights worldwide.

Simon Taylor

Co-Founder and Board member, Hawkmoth

Simon Taylor is a co-founder and Board member of a new NGO, Hawkmoth.  Hawkmoth will conduct investigations, legal action, publish findings and policy thinking, together with broader campaigns on the Polycrisis and its constituent parts.  Corruption, from its broadest interpretation, is the glue that sustains the polycrisis.

Simon is a co-Founder and Board member of Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org).  Leaving staff after 30 years, Simon was involved across the spectrum of campaigns and the strategic direction of the organisation, from its inception working on shutting down financing to the genocidal Khmer Rouge.  Global Witness exposed the scandal of “Blood Diamonds”, for which it was a co-Nominee for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.  Simon began the organisation’s work on oil, gas and mining, centred around the sector’s corrupt activities, seeking transparency and accountability.  Simon was the co-founder of the Publish What You Pay Campaign (www.pywp.org), now an international movement of more than 1,000 organisations.

Simon was a co-signatory to complaints which led to international criminal investigations into the corrupt deal for the OPL 245 oil block in Nigeria, in turn leading to the trial of Shell and Eni, and 15 co-defendants, including highest-level executives in Milan.  The defendants were acquitted.

(Italy has since been subjected to OECD peer review, after which the reviewers strongly criticised the judgement of this case (and two others), finding that Italy has fallen out of compliance with its obligations as a signatory of the OECD Convention).

(See: https://shellandenitrial.org/  for documentation related to the case).

Simon is a Steering Committee member of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (https://fossilfueltreaty.org/steering-committee).

Simon is a 2005 Gleitsman International Activist Award winner; received an Honourable Mention for the 2013 Allard Prize; and in 2014, was an awardee of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Peter Eigen

Founder of Transparency International (TI)

Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen is the founder of Transparency International, a non-governmental organization promoting transparency and accountability in international development. From 1993 to 2005 he was Chair of TI and until 2019 Chair of its Advisory Council.

2006-2011 he was the founding Chair of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). In August 2014 he co-founded the “HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform” in Berlin, he founded in 2015 and chaired its Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), and co-chairs now its Climate Transparency Initiative. Since 2018 he co-chairs the Africa Progress Group (Abeokuta), a successor initiative to The Africa Progress Panel (Geneva).

Peter Eigen worked at the World Bank on economic development for 25 years. He taught at the universities of Frankfurt/ M, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins/ SAIS and from 2002 – 2011 at Freie Universität, Berlin.
In 2004 Peter Eigen has been awarded the Readers Digest Prize “European of the Year 2004” and in 2007 the Gustav Heinemann Award. In 2013 Germany awarded Peter Eigen its Grand Cross of Merit in recognition of his efforts to combat corruption. In 2015, he was awarded the Inamori Ethics Prize (USA/ Japan), in 2019 the Deutschen Kulturpreis (München) and the award Persönlichkeit des Jahres (German-Brasilian Chamber of Commerce: Natal, Brasilien).

Peter Eigen serves on the boards of Care, Stiftung Kinder-Hilfe, Childaid and German Doctors.

Olajobi Makinwa

Senior Adviser on Africa, UN Global Compact

Olajobi Makinwa, is a a highly experienced international development expert. She is also a corporate governance and compliance executive with deep knowledge of government, private sector and non-governmental organizations. She has more than 20 years experience in leading organizations, strategies, and high-level relations in various parts of the world. Until recently, Olajobi was a Senior Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) UN Global Compact on Special Initiatives.

As Senior Adviser on Africa at the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), Olajobi Makinwa conceptulaized, developed and managed the organization's Africa Strategy. She was the Head of the Global Africa Business Initiative – a private sector-led initiative for the accelaration of Africa’s business, trade and investment prospects to repostion Africa. In addition, Olajobi led the UNGC Africa Business Leaders Coalition, a CEO- led coalition committed to advancing sustainable growth, propsperity and development in Africa.

In her previous position as Chief, Intergovernmental Relations and Africa at the UNGC, Olajobi spearheaded high-level interactions with governments to strengthen relations and enhance understanding of the UNGC. She championed responsible business practices and UN values among the business community.

Whilst also Chief, Transparency and Anti-Corruption at the UNGC, Olajobi successfully led UNGC’s global anti-corruption initiatives and developed numerous tools and resources on governance and business integrity, as well as initiated projects on transparency and anti- corruption including on Collective Action against Corruption.

Olajobi is a member of the International Bar Association, the Athena Alliance and an Advisory Board member, Business Day Media Foundation, Nigeria.

Ms. Makinwa holds a law degree with honours (LL.B Hons) and a Master of International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos. She was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Ms. Makinwa completed further postgraduate studies in Business Leadership at the School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa. She has attended courses in various institutions.

Tamara Wittes

President, National Democratic Institute (NDI)

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Tamara Cofman Wittes became the fourth president of NDI in March, 2024. Before joining the Institute, she served as Director of Foreign Assistance in the U.S Department of State. Previously, she led the Russia sanctions effort for the State Department’s sanctions coordination office. Dr. Wittes also served in the State Department from 2009 – 2012 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, coordinating U.S. policy on democracy and human rights in the Middle East during the Arab uprisings. Dr. Wittes spent nearly twenty years as a foreign policy scholar at the Brookings Institution, including as director of its Center for Middle East Policy. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where she has taught courses in international relations, Middle East policy, and security studies. Dr. Wittes was one of the first recipients of the Rabin-Peres Peace Award, established by President Bill Clinton in 1997. Dr. Wittes has published three books, two on Middle East policy and her most recent, coauthored with Professor Jim Goldgeier, Foreign Policy Careers for PhDs: A Practical Guide to a World of Possibilities (Georgetown University Press, 2023). She holds a bachelor’s in Judaic and Near Eastern studies from Oberlin College and master’s and doctoral degrees in Government from Georgetown University. She is a founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security, and served on the board of the National Democratic Institute from 2014 – 2022. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Women in International Security. A native of Michigan, Dr. Wittes lives in Washington, D.C., where she tends a robust pollinator garden.

Christopher Stone

Professor of Practice of Public Integrity University of Oxford

Chris Stone is Professor of Practice of Public Integrity at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the leadership challenge of transforming cultures of corruption into cultures of integrity in public-sector organisations, large and small. At Oxford, Chris also chairs the Chandler Sessions on Integrity and Anti-Corruption and teaches on the rule of law.

Chris has previously served as president of the Open Society Foundations (2012–2017), as Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (2004–2012), as faculty director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University (2007–2012), and as president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice (1994–2004). In 2005, he received an honorary OBE for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and the Yale Law School.

Gabriel Labrador

Journalist

Gabriel Labrador, a Salvadoran journalist with a focus on politics, earned a degree in Social Communication from the Central American University (UCA). He works at the digital newspaper El Faro and contributes as a stringer for The New York Times. Additionally, he has contributed to Spanish media outlets such as El País and El Diario.es, as well as international magazines like Gatopardo. Gabriel also collaborates with the podcast Radio Ambulante and specializes in covering political and human rights issues.

Alison Taylor

Clinical associate professor at NYU Stern School of Business

Alison Taylor is a clinical associate professor at NYU Stern School of Business, and the executive director at Ethical Systems. Her previous work experience includes being a Managing Director at non-profit business network BSR and a Senior Managing Director at Control Risks. She holds advisory roles at VentureESG, sustainability non-profit BSR, Pictet Group, and KKR, and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Good Governance. She has expertise in strategy, sustainability, political and social risk, culture and behavior, human rights, ethics and compliance, stakeholder engagement, anti corruption and professional responsibility. Her book Higher Ground: How Business Can do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World was published by Harvard Business Review Press in February 2024. Alison received her Bachelor of Arts in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford University, her MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.

Daniel Eriksson

Chief Executive Officer, Transparency International (TI)

Daniel Eriksson is the CEO of Transparency International’s Secretariat in Berlin. Daniel joined the Secretariat in January 2019 as Head of Technology and oversaw Transparency International’s work on the role of emerging technologies in corruption. Prior to his appointment as CEO in April 2021, Daniel served as an Interim Managing Director of Transparency International Secretariat for a year.

Daniel brings with him a wealth of leadership experience in both the private and not-for-profit sectors, developing and implementing strategy for multi-country teams in a variety of sectors. Daniel has been an employee with the Swedish government, the United Nations, the European Commission, civil society organisations and, in recent years, in leadership roles of publicly listed corporations. Notably, he was the country manager for a multinational corporate security services firm in India which provided services, including investigations into suspected corruption.

Having started his career as a military peacekeeper in the conflict in former Yugoslavia, Daniel was inspired to work in the humanitarian sector. Subsequent work in sustainable development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East redirected his focus towards corruption as an obstacle to human development. He is a passionate anti-corruption advocate and a big believer of the role of technology in global efforts to end the injustice of corruption.

Daniel is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and has a BSc in Information Systems Analysis from Linköping University, Sweden, and a PhD from Coventry University, United Kingdom.

Carolina Jiménez Sandoval

President, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

Carolina Jiménez Sandoval is the President of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). She brings to WOLA over 20 years of experience in research and advocacy for human rights in the Americas and throughout the world. As a leader in the field who has worked extensively throughout the region and in Washington, she is poised to guide WOLA’s team to a new era of strategic impact for social justice and human rights.

She comes to WOLA from Amnesty International where she was Deputy Research Director for the Americas in Mexico City. In her almost seven years there, she led a team of researchers documenting human rights violations and designing advocacy strategies to guarantee respect for human rights. Her work included a wide variety of themes and countries, from addressing grave crimes under international law in Venezuela and Nicaragua to promoting the rights of migrants and refugees in Central America, Mexico and the United States. Prior to that, she was program officer for the Open Society Foundations’ Latin America Program and International Migration Initiative where she led the creation of CAMMINA (the Central America and Mexico Migration Alliance), a donor collaborative funded by OSF, AVINA and the Ford Foundation to support migrants’ rights organizations in the region.

Earlier in her career, she was a program manager in the Democracy, Governance and Human Rights unit at the Trust for the Americas, a non-profit affiliated with the Organization of American States, where she led a regional initiative to promote the rights of migrants in Central America and the Caribbean. From 2008-2010, she was country director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Venezuela and on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

She also brings extensive experience in the international arena. She was project and research assistant at the United Nations University in Japan and worked in Argentina with the Gender and Public Policy Unit of the Latin American Faculty of Social Science, and as a research assistant for the International Gender and Trade Network.

She has a PhD in international studies from Waseda University, Japan, and did a postdoctoral program in human rights and ethics at the Central University of Venezuela. She holds a master’s degree in international law and Asian studies from Chuo University, Japan, and a master’s of philosophy in international relations from the University of Cambridge, England. She graduated from the Universidad Central de Venezuela with a BA in international relations.

She is a frequent contributor to media outlets and publications across Latin America and the US, especially on the human rights situation in Venezuela, refugees and asylum seekers’ rights and other issues. She is a national of Venezuela and Mexico.

Peter Maurer

President, Basel Institute on Governance

Peter Maurer is President of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance and a leading voice internationally on humanitarian and related issues. He joined the Basel Institute in October 2022, following over 10 years as President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Born in Thun, Switzerland, Peter Maurer has had a distinguished career in the Swiss diplomatic service. Among various positions he served for five years as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, where he worked to integrate Switzerland into multilateral networks. Prior to joining the ICRC, Peter Maurer was the Swiss Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in charge of five directorates and around 150 diplomatic missions around the world.

Among other engagements, he is a Member of the Advisory Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a Member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Insurance.

Peter Maurer holds a PhD in History and International Law from the University of Bern. He has been awarded honorary PhDs from the University of Basel and Waseda University.

Brandee M. Butler

Deputy CEO, The Fund For Global Human Rights

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Brandee M. Butler is the Deputy CEO of The Fund For Global Human Rights . She oversees the Fund’s operations in pursuit of its mission to provide resources and support to frontline human rights activists and movements.

Previously, she served as a division director at the Open Society Initiative for Europe, leading the Civil Liberties Division. Brandee has over fifteen years of experience working with international foundations, civil society organizations, and the private sector to promote human rights. She has served in leadership and grantmaking positions, supporting human rights funding at the C&A (now Laudes)

Foundation in Amsterdam and Levi Strauss & Co. in Brussels.

Earlier in her career, Brandee received the Yale Law School Bernstein Fellowship for International Human Rights to combat child trafficking in Gabon. She later practiced law at the Alliance for Children’s Rights in Los Angeles and specialized in international justice as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Brandee has published articles on structural racism, modern slavery, gender-based violence, and supply chain transparency. She currently serves on the boards of Women Win and Ariadne Funders Network. She received a BA with honors from Harvard University and a JD from Yale Law School. She is currently based in Barcelona.

Amitabh Behar

Executive Director (interim) of Oxfam International

Amitabh Behar, Executive Director (interim) of Oxfam International, is a global civil society leader, and an authority on tackling economic and gender inequality and building citizen participation. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Oxfam India.

Mr. Behar was the Vice Chair of the Board of CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society across the globe. He also serves on the boards of several other organisations, including the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), an Indian public policy think tank and the Global Fund for Community Philanthropy (GFCF).

Prior to Oxfam India, Mr. Behar was the Executive Director of National Foundation for India and served as the Convener of National Social Watch Coalition and the Co-Chair of Global Call to Action Against Poverty, a network of over 11,000 civil society organisations.

Sanjay Pradhan

Chief Executive Officer Open Government Partnership

Sanjay Pradhan joined the Open Government Partnership in May 2016 as Chief Executive Officer. Sanjay supports the countries, local governments and thousands of civil society organizations working to make governments more open, participatory and less corrupt. He leads OGP’s policy dialogue with Heads of States, senior ministers and civil society organizations across the partnership, and serves as OGP’s global spokesperson.

Bringing a wealth of open government and innovation experience to the role, he previously served in three senior positions at the World Bank: as the Vice President for Leadership, Learning and Innovation, the Vice President of the World Bank Institute, and the Director for Governance. While at the World Bank, Mr. Pradhan tirelessly promoted open development. He led the World Bank’s Governance and Anticorruption Strategy, launched the Global Partnership for Social Accountability, incubated ICT-mediated citizen feedback to improve governance, initiated Open Contracting with Partners, and rolled out a flagship Collaborative Leadership for Development program to help government and civil society leaders undertake collaborative actions. During his tenure at the World Bank, Sanjay gained extensive experience working in Africa, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia.

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Andreas Schwarz

Deputy Director-General, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)

Academic qualifications

• 1996 – 2001 PhD in Economics, University of Potsdam, Germany
• 1993 – 1995 Diplom (Master) in Economics with specialisation in the international economics, University of Bamberg, Germany
• 1989 – 1993 Master of Science in the areas of information and communication technologies, Union College, Schenectady, Unites States

Professional experience in the European Institutions

• Since 01/03/2023: Deputy Director-General, European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
• 07/2018 – 02/2022: Director for Revenue and Multiannual financial framework (DG BUDG)
• 11/2016 – 07/2019: Head of Unit for MFF and economic and budgetary analysis (DG BUDG)
• 11/2014 – 11/2016 – Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Georgieva (portfolio: Budget, Olaf and Human Resources)
• 02/2010 – 10/2014: Deputy Head of Cabinet / Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Lewandowski (portfolio: Budget and Financial Programming)
• 09/2007 – 02/2010: Member of Cabinet of Vice-President Verheugen (portfolio: Enterprise and Industry)
• 11/2005 – 08/2007: Team coordinator for trade defence policy, Market Economy Status China (DG TRADE)
• 05/2003 – 10/2005: Policy Officer for private sector development, microfinance (DG DEV)
• 09/1997 – 08/1999: Case handler for state aid (DG COMP)

Professional experience before joining the European Institutions

• 09/2001 – 03/2003: Economist, Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ/GIZ), Germany
• 06/1996 – 06/1997: Research Assistant, University of Potsdam, Germany

Catherine De Bolle

Executive Director of Europol

Before taking up her post as Europol’s Executive Director in May 2018, Catherine De Bolle served as General Commissioner of the Belgian Federal Police from 2012. Prior to her appointment as Belgian Police Commissioner, Ms De Bolle was Chief of Police in Ninove. In January 2015, she has received the title of Public Manager of the year. From November 2015 until November 2018, she was a member of the Executive Committee of Interpol. Ms De Bolle studied law at Ghent University and then went on to graduate from the Royal Gendarmerie Academy in Belgium.

Sarah Chayes

Former Senior Associate Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sarah Chayes is internationally recognized for her innovative thinking on corruption — especially its role in fueling security crises.  Her 2015 book Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security has proven prescient.  After living and working in Kandahar, Afghanistan for half a dozen years, she served as a special advisor to two commanders of the international forces in Kabul and then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  After Thieves of State, she turned her unflinching gaze closer to home, in On Corruption in America — And What Is at Stake.  She lives in Paw Paw, WV.

Raymond Baker

Founding President, Global Financial Integrity (GFI)

Raymond Baker is the Founding President of Global Financial Integrity and the author of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, published by John Wiley & Sons and cited by the Financial Times as one of the “best business books of 2005.” He has for many years been an internationally respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth, and foreign policy issues, particularly as they concern emerging market and developing countries and impact western economic and foreign interests. He has written and spoken extensively, testified often before legislative committees in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, been quoted worldwide, and has commented frequently on television and radio in the the United States, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia on legislative matters and policy questions, including appearances on ABC News’ Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg TV, the CBS Evening News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and Four Corners (ABC1 in Australia), among others.

Mr. Baker founded Global Financial Integrity in 2006, and the GFI team has produced more than 25 economic analyses of resource transfers affecting countries, regions, and the world. GFI has led in securing the terminology and the reality of illicit financial flows onto the global political-economy agenda. He also serves on the Policy Advisory Board of Transparency International-USA and on the Advisory Board of the Ethical Research Institute.

In 1996 he received a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project entitled, “Flight Capital, Poverty and Free-Market Economics.” He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy. He traveled to 23 countries to interview 335 central bankers, commercial bankers, government officials, economists, lawyers, tax collectors, security officers, and sociologists on the relationships between bribery, commercial tax evasion, money laundering, and economic growth. From 1985 to 1996 Mr. Baker provided confidential economic advisory services at the presidential level for developing country governments. Activities focused principally on issues surrounding anti-corruption strategies, international terms of trade, and developing country debt. Research was conducted with 550 business owners and managers in eleven countries, concerning import and export mispricing and movement of tax-evading capital, and money laundering.

From 1976 to 1985 Mr. Baker conducted extensive trading activities throughout Latin America and in ten Asian countries including the People’s Republic of China. An affiliated company in London handled transactions in Europe. From 1961 to 1976 he lived in Nigeria and established and managed an investment company which set up and acquired manufacturing and financing ventures, the subject of two Harvard Business School case studies. Educated at Harvard Business School and Georgia Institute of Technology, Mr. Baker is the author of “The Biggest Loophole in the Free-Market System,” “Illegal Flight Capital; Dangers for Global Stability,” “How Dirty Money Binds the Poor,” and other works published in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Nicola Allocca

Risk, Business Integrity, Resilience & Quality Director at Autostrade per l’Italia and Chair of the Business at OECD Anticorruption Committee

Senior executive with proven experience in various international Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) across the EU, UAE, Brazil, and China, specifically in Governance, Finance & Control functions; specialized in Risk Management, Anticorruption, Performance Improvement and Strategic Consulting; expert in transformation programs and change management.

Currently he holds the position of Risk, Business Integrity, Resilience & Quality Director at Autostrade per l’Italia. Additionally, serving as the Chair of the Business at OECD Anticorruption Committee, co-chair of the B20 Brazil “Integrity & Compliance” Task Force and member of the OECD Blue Dot Network Executive Consultation Group.

He holds an MBA from Hult International Business School and is Professor of the “Responsible Business Conduct” course within the Economics and Management Master’s program at the University of Rome Torvergata.

Throughout his career, he has demonstrated an exceptional ability to manage cross-cultural teams with diverse backgrounds, thriving in complex and dynamic contexts. His commitment to excellence and passion for fostering positive change underscore his professional journey.

Mary Lawlor

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders United Nations

She became a Board member of the Irish Section of Amnesty International in 1975, was elected Chair from 1983 -1987 and in 1988 became its Director.

She founded Front Line Defenders in 2001 to focus specifically on the protection of human rights defenders at risk. As Executive Director from 2001-2016, Mary had a key role in the development of Front Line Defenders into the prominent international organisation it is today.

On 1 May 2020, she took up the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, where she has adopted a people-centred approach to the mandate. Her mandate was renewed for another three-year term by the UN Human Rights Council in April 2023.

She is also currently an Adjunct Professor of Business and Human Rights in the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the Advisory Board of both the School of Business of Trinity and the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin.

Among her awards are the French insignia of Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, the Franco-German Award for Human Rights and the Rule of Law and the Irish Red Cross Lifetime Achievement Award.

She was awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law from University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.

Paul Radu

Co-Founder and Head of Innovation, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

Paul Radu is Co-Founder and Head of Innovation at OCCRP. He founded the organization in 2007 with Drew Sullivan. He leads OCCRP’s major investigative projects, scopes regional expansion, and develops new strategies and technology to expose organized crime and corruption across borders.

Paul initiated and led the award-winning Russian, Azerbaijani, and Troika Laundromat investigations, and coined the term “laundromat” to define large scale, all-purpose financial fraud vehicles that are used to launder billions of dollars. He is a co-creator of Investigative Dashboard — a research desk that sifts through datasets to help journalists trace people, companies, and assets — and the Visual Investigative Scenarios software, a tool that lets reporters sketch out the people, institutions, and connections in criminal networks so people can easily follow complex investigations. He is also a co-founder of RISE Project, a platform for investigative reporters in Romania.

Paul is an Ashoka Global Fellow and has held a number of other fellowships, including the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism, the Knight International Journalism Fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is a board member for the Global Investigative Journalism Network, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a member of the jury for the global Sigma Data Journalism Awards, and a member of the Allard Prize advisory board.

Paul is a winner of the Daniel Pearl Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the European Press Prize, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was part of the Panama Papers team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. He has also authored or contributed to handbooks and digital guides such as “Against Corruption: a collection of essays,” “The Data Journalism Handbook,” and “Follow the Money — A Digital Guide to Tracking Corruption.”

Klaus Moosmayer

Chief Ethics, Risk & Compliance Officer, Novartis

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 new integrated risk and compliance management systems and related digital platforms that help senior management and employees prioritize and manage risks in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. And he set up a new process to ensure human rights are further integrated into core business practices, especially external partner 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 represents business in global integrity, governance, compliance and anti-corruption platforms at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), G20/B20, World Economic Forum (WEF) and other organizations.

As a believer in collaboration, Klaus co-founded and chaired a nonprofit association of compliance heads from major European companies and is driving collective action efforts to foster joint integrity standards within the pharmaceutical industry and beyond.

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

Cynthia Gabriel

Founding Director C4Center

Cynthia Gabriel, is easily recognized as a key advocate of human rights and good governance in Malaysia and on the global platform. In June 2021, at a rare and exceptional invitation by the President of the United Nations General Assembly. Cynthia addressed the plenary of member states at their special session against corruption. Cynthia was appointed into the prestigious Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum (WEF), on economic and anti- corruption issues for the term 2019-2020, an advisory body to the World Economic Forum, which meets every year in Davos, Switzerland. In 2020, Cynthia received a meritorious award by the King of Malaysia, for her outstanding efforts in fighting corruption and courage in advancing democratic freedoms in Malaysia and the region. Academically well-rounded, she has degrees in both the science and legal fraternities.

Gerard Ryle

Director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Gerard Ryle is the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-award winning director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington, DC. He led the worldwide teams of journalists who worked on the Offshore Leaks, the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers investigations – the six biggest collaborations in journalism history.  

The work of he and his colleagues helped force the downfall of four world leaders – the Prime Ministers of Pakistan, Iceland, Malta and the Czech Republic – and prompted government inquiries and legislative reform across the world.  Many people went to jail as result of these reports, and they led to official inquiries in dozens of countries.  

Under Gerard’s leadership, ICIJ has gone from obscurity to one of the best-known journalism brands in the world. He has been credited with revolutionizing the way investigative journalism is done, convincing many of the world’s biggest and smallest media companies to join forces to work together on global stories. 

The Pandora Papers project involved more than 600 journalists at more than 150 news outlets in 117 countries working together. 

An immigrant from Ireland, Gerard founded the investigative reporting team at Australia’s biggest newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, before joining as ICIJ’s first non-American director in September 2011. 

He is a book author and TED speaker, and he has won or shared in more than 90 major journalism awards from eight different countries. In 2021, ICIJ was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Daniel Malan

Director, Corporate Governance Lab, Trinity College Dublin

Daniel Malan is the director of the Corporate Governance Lab at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and the founder of IntegrityIQ, an AI-driven integrity platform supported by Enterprise Ireland which is in the process of becoming a Trinity Campus Company. He was the co-chair of the B20 Task Force on Integrity and Compliance (2022 and 2020), is a former member of the Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption of the World Economic Forum (2019 – 2022) and is the regional partner for Africa and Ireland at the International Board Foundation in St Gallen, Switzerland. He is a former associate director of KPMG Forensic Accounting, where he was the regional service specialist for ethics and integrity services in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. 

Jean-François Bohner

Head of the National Financial Prosecution Office in Paris

Jean-François BOHNERT is a French public prosecutor, head of the National Financial Prosecution Office in Paris since October 2019. Mr. BOHNERT graduated from Strasbourg University of Law in 1983 and was admitted to the National School of Judiciary in 1984.

After a two years period of training he was appointed as junior public prosecutor in Strasbourg (1987/1993). After a secondment as prosecutor and investigating judge to the French military court in Germany, Mr. BOHNERT was appointed as a liaison magistrate to Germany (French Embassy and German federal ministry of justice in Bonn and Berlin – 1998/2003). He was seconded to EUROJUST from 2003 to 2007 as a deputy national member for France. Back to France in 2007, he was appointed as deputy chief prosecutor in Dijon (2007/2010), deputy prosecutor general in Bourges (2011/2012), chief public prosecutor in Rouen (2013/2015) and prosecutor general in Reims (2016/2019).

He is a regular speaker and instructor at the French National School of Judiciary (Ecole nationale de la Magistrature) and at the German Academy for judges and prosecutors (Deutsche Richterakademie).