Delia Ferreira Rubio

Former Transparency International Chair

The former president of Transparency International’s chapter in Argentina, Poder Ciudadano, Delia Matilde Ferreira Rubio has served as chief advisor for several representatives and senators at the Argentine National Congress and has advised the Constitutional Committee of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the National Accounting Office. Currently she works as an independent consultant, and has consulted on anti-corruption related issues with international organisations and NGOs, mainly in Latin America. Delia has a PhD in law from Madrid’s Complutense University and is the author of numerous publications on democratic culture and political institutions, comparative politics, and public and parliamentary ethics. She was elected to TI’s board in 2008 and 2011 and then again as chair in 2017.

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Antony J. Blinken

71st U.S. Secretary of State

Antony J. Blinken is the 71st U.S. Secretary of State.

He was nominated by President Biden on November 23, 2020; confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 26, 2021; and sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris the following day.

Over three decades and three presidential administrations, Mr. Blinken has helped shape U.S. foreign policy to ensure it protects U.S. interests and delivers results for the American people. He served as deputy secretary of state for President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017, and before that, as President Obama’s principal deputy national security advisor. In that role, Mr. Blinken chaired the interagency deputies committee, the main forum for hammering out the administration’s foreign policy.

During the first term of the Obama Administration, Mr. Blinken was national security advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden. This was the continuation of a long professional relationship that stretched back to 2002, when Mr. Blinken began his six-year stint as Democratic staff director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then-Senator Biden was the chair of that committee from 2001 to 2003 and 2007 to 2009.

During the Clinton Administration, Mr. Blinken served as a member of the National Security Council staff, including two years as the senior director for European affairs, the president’s principal advisor on the countries of Europe, the European Union, and NATO. He also spent four years as President Clinton’s chief foreign policy speechwriter, and he led the NSC’s strategic planning team.

Mr. Blinken’s public service began at the State Department. From 1993 to 1994, he was a special assistant in what was then called the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. Now he is proud to lead the department where he got his start in government nearly 30 years ago.

Outside of government, Mr. Blinken has worked in the private sector, civil society, and journalism. He was a founder of WestExec Advisors, an international strategic consulting firm focused on geopolitics and national security. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2001 and 2002. Before joining government, Mr. Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris. He was also a reporter for The New Republic magazine and is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis (Praeger, 1987).

Mr. Blinken attended grade school and high school in Paris, where he received a French Baccalaureat degree with high honors. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School. He and his wife Evan Ryan have two children.

Jake Sullivan

National Security Advisor to President Joseph R. Biden

Jake Sullivan is the national security advisor to President Joseph R. Biden, a visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Jake served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State, as well as deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was the senior policy adviser on Secretary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and previously served as deputy policy director on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential primary campaign and as a member of the debate preparation team for Barack Obama’s general election campaign.

Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.

Assistant Attorney General

Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. serves as the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. In that capacity, Mr. Polite supervises the Division’s more than 600 federal prosecutors who conduct investigations and prosecutions involving organized and transnational crime, gang violence, securities fraud, health care fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, public corruption, cybercrime, intellectual property theft, money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act violations, child exploitation, international narcotics trafficking, human rights violations, and other crimes, as well as matters involving international affairs and sensitive law enforcement techniques.

Mr. Polite comes to the Division with prior public service at the U.S. Department of Justice. During the Obama/Biden administration, Mr. Polite served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, where he championed prevention, reentry, and enforcement in improving public safety from 2013 to 2017. As the chief federal law enforcement officer for Southeast Louisiana, he supervised the work of approximately 55 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and was responsible for all criminal and civil matters in which the federal government was involved. Those matters included political corruption, gang violence, narcotics distribution, healthcare fraud, human trafficking, civil rights violations, tax evasion, and environmental crimes. In April 2015, Attorney General Loretta Lynch appointed Kenneth to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) of U.S. Attorneys. The AGAC serves as the voice of the 93 U.S. Attorneys across the nation and provides advice and counsel to the U.S. Attorney General and other senior leaders at the Department on policy, management, and operational issues. In addition, he served as a member of the AGAC Subcommittees on Violent and Organized Crime, White Collar Crime, and Civil Rights, as well as the Smart on Crime Working Group. In 2007, Mr. Polite began his public service career as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a broad range of federal offenses, including organized crime, public corruption, healthcare fraud, and identity theft. A Smart on Crime advocate, he is also a frequent speaker on criminal justice reform. A supporter and active board member of several non-profit organizations, Mr. Polite has received an honorary doctorate in recognition of his public service.

Prior to his confirmation as the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Mr. Polite served as a partner in the Philadelphia office of a large international law firm where his practice focused on counseling executives and corporate management on complex and sensitive issues and handles internal and government investigations, white collar criminal defense, commercial litigation, appellate advocacy, and corporate compliance and governance, particularly in the energy and healthcare sectors. Before that, he served as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, where he led the Ethics and Compliance Department, with responsibility for fostering a culture of integrity and compliance with the company’s code of conduct. He also has served in private practice as a white-collar defense attorney in Pennsylvania, New York, and Louisiana, focusing on internal investigations and corporate compliance.

Mr. Polite clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Polite received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and his A.B. from Harvard University in Cambridge, M.A.

Maia Sandu

President of the Republic of Moldova

She studied at the Risipeni village school.

In 1994, she graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Faculty of Management. From 1995 to 1998, she studied at the Academy of Public Administration in Chisinau, obtaining a Master’s degree in International Relations.

Between July 1994 and March 1998, she has held the position of Consultant, Deputy head of department at the Ministry of Economy.

From March 1998 to August 2005, she worked as an economist at the World Bank Office in Chisinau.

From August 2005 to July 2006, she was the Director of the Directorate-General for Macroeconomic Policy and Development Programs at the Ministry of Economy and Trade.

Between 2006 and 2009, she worked as a consultant in various projects in the field of good governance and public administration reform.

In 2010, she obtained a Master’s degree in public policy, after completing her studies at the Kennedy School of Public Administration at Harvard University (USA).

From June 2010 until July 2012, she was the Adviser of the Executive Director of the World Bank in Washington (USA).

In July 2012, she became the Minister of Education in the Government of the Republic of Moldova, a position she held until July 2015.

In May 2016, she founded the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS). She was appointed PAS Party President until December 2020, resigning after winning the presidential election.

From February to June 2019, she acted as a Member of Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.

In June 2019, she was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, a position she held until November 2019.

On December 24, 2020, Maia Sandu was sworn in as the President of the Republic of Moldova, after her victory in the second round of the presidential elections (November 15, 2020)

She speaks Romanian (mother tongue), English, Russian.

Samantha Power

Administrator of USAID

Samantha Power was sworn into office as the 19th Administrator of USAID on May 3, 2021.

In leading the world’s premier international development agency and its global staff of over 10,000 people, Power will focus on helping the United States respond to four interconnected challenges: the COVID-19 pandemic and the development gains it has imperiled; climate change; conflict and humanitarian crises; and democratic backsliding. Power will also ensure that USAID enhances its longstanding leadership in areas including food security, education, women’s empowerment, and global health. Additionally, Power is the first USAID Administrator to be a member of the National Security Council, where she will ensure that development plays a critical role in America’s responses to a range of economic, humanitarian, and geopolitical issues.

Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, Power was the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2017, Power served in the Obama-Biden Administration as the 28th US Permanent Representative to the United Nations. During her time at the UN, Power rallied countries to combat the Ebola epidemic, ratify the Paris climate agreement, and develop new international law to cripple ISIS’s financial networks. She worked to negotiate and implement the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, helped catalyze bold international commitments to care for refugees, and advocated to secure the release of political prisoners, defend civil society from growing repression, and protect the rights of women and girls.

From 2009 to 2013, Power served on the National Security Council staff as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights. At the NSC, she advised the Obama-Biden Administration on issues such as democracy promotion, UN reform, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, atrocity prevention, and the fights against human trafficking and global corruption.

An immigrant from Ireland, Power began her career as a war correspondent in Bosnia, and went on to report from places including Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. She was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and has been recognized as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People,” one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” and by Forbes as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” Power is an author and editor of multiple books, and the recipient of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

Power earned a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Peter Eigen

Founder of Transparency International

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.

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.

Lysa John Berna

Secretary General CIVICUS

Lysa John has worked on issues of governance accountability and social justice since 1998. She most recently worked with Save the Children International as their global Campaigns and Advocacy Strategy Director, and previously served as Head of Outreach for the UN High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda (i.e. the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals). Born in India, Lysa John spent the early part of her career working on grassroots-led advocacy and campaigns linked to urban poverty, governance and housing rights. During this time, she served as the National Coordinator at ‘Wada Na Todo Abhiyan’ (Don’t Break the Promise Campaign). Lysa has authored several reports, including assessments on the role and influence of emerging powers such as BRICS in international development. She has also contributed to publications such as Earthscan, Outlook India and the Guardian. She holds a Master’s degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Lysa previously served on CIVICUS’ board of directors and is currently based between Nairobi and Johannesburg.

Dr. Huguette Labelle

Chair International Anti-Corruption Conference Council

Huguette Labelle is the former Chair of the Board of Transparency International, member of the Board of the UN Global Compact, member of the Group of External Advisors on the World Bank Governance and Anti-corruption Strategy, member of the Advisory Group to the Asian Development Bank on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, member of the Executive Board of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation, member of the Board of the Global Centre for Pluralism, member of the Advisory Council of the Order of Ontario and Vice Chair of the Senior Advisory Board of the International Anti-Corruption Academy. A former Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, she also serves on additional national and international boards. She provides advisory services to national and international organisations. Labelle served for 19 years as Deputy Minister of different Canadian Government departments.

Huguette Labelle holds a Doctor of Philosophy, Education, degree from the University of Ottawa, and has received honorary degrees from Brock University, the University of Saskatchewan, Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, York University, Mount Saint Vincent University, the University of Windsor, University of Manitoba, Saint Paul University, St Francis Xavier University, Moncton University and l’Université de Montréal. She is a  Companion of the Order of Canada. She has received the Vanier Medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Public Service of Canada, the McGill University Management Achievement Award and l’Ordre de la Pléiade.

Ms. Francine Pickup

Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP

Francine Pickup is UNDP’s Deputy Director in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) beginning 1st June 2022.

Prior to her appointment, Francine was Resident Representative in Serbia, Resident Representative a.i. / Country Director in India and Deputy Country Director in Indonesia. Before that, she worked as the Strategic Planning Advisor in RBAP and led the UN’s Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit under the Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General in Iraq. Francine joined the UN in 2002, working with OCHA in Lebanon, Palestine and New York, as well as the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) and FAO in Palestine, and ILO in Central Asia. Aside from the UN, she has worked with several development organisations, including Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the World Bank.

Francine received her undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, her Masters in Development Studies and PhD on local level responses to new market forces in Russia, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has publications on topics including innovative and Islamic financing, aid effectiveness, humanitarian aid policy, economies in transition, livelihoods, the informal economy and gender and development. She is married with three children and loves tennis, running and the outdoors.

Uzra Zeya

Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights, US Department of State

Uzra Zeya was sworn as Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights by Secretary Blinken July 14, 2021. In this role, she leads global diplomatic efforts to strengthen democracy, advance universal human rights, support refugees and humanitarian relief, promote rule of law and counternarcotics cooperation, fight corruption and intolerance, prevent armed conflict, and eliminate human trafficking. On December 20, 2021, Secretary Blinken announced her designation to serve concurrently as the U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, for which she leads U.S. efforts to support the human rights and meet the humanitarian needs of the Tibetan people and preserve their unique cultural, religious, and linguistic identity.

Under Secretary Zeya brings to these roles over three decades of diplomatic and leadership acumen at the intersection of international peace, security, and human rights. From 2019 to 2021, she served as president and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a non-partisan global network of more than 130 organizations working in more than 180 countries to end conflict by peaceful means. During her 27-year Foreign Service career, Zeya served as deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires in Paris; acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state; political minister-counselor in New Delhi; and deputy executive secretary to Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton. She also served in Syria, Egypt, Oman, Jamaica, and in various policy roles at the Department of State. Zeya speaks Arabic, French and Spanish.

Zeya is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where she co-authored a 2021 report on Revitalizing the State Department and American Diplomacy, and is a current commissioner of the Congressional-Executive Committee on China and an ex-officio member of the U.S. Institute of Peace Board of Directors. She has served on the Advisory Board for the Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and several non-profit boards focused on women’s empowerment, peacebuilding, and digital freedom. She also served previously as a Practitioner in Residence at Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service program, where she taught coursework on U.S.-European relations. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the recipient of several State Department Superior Honor and Senior Performance awards, the Presidential Rank Award, and the French Legion d’Honneur.

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 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.

Gary Kalman

Executive Director of TI U.S.

Gary Kalman is the Executive Director of TI U.S.. He oversees the organization’s US operations focusing on illicit finance and the US role in global anti-corruption efforts. He was a founding member the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, a nonpartisan alliance promoting policies to combat the harmful impacts of corrupt financial practices, and served as Executive Director from 2016 to 2019. He was also a founder of Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition that, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, led the successful fight for the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. Shortly after coming to Washington, he directed the federal legislative office for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). While at U.S. PIRG, he was a leading voice for congressional ethics and lobbying reform having sat on a bipartisan task force convened by the Speaker of the House. He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions on financial accountability. He is a regular speaker and commentator on anti-corruption and transparency issues at conferences and events around the world. His comments and work have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio, Fox News and MSNBC, among other outlets.

Cecilia Müller Torbrand

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)

Cecilia leads Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), a global business network working toward the vision of a maritime industry free of corruption that enables fair trade to the benefit of society at large. She was one of the front drivers for MACN establishment in 2011. MACN has under Cecilia’s leadership grown significantly, won multiple awards, and is considered to be one of the pre-eminent examples of collective action to tackle corruption.

Cecilia is an experienced anti-corruption specialist with more than ten years of expertise in the compliance field. She has multinational experience within shipping and trade and has been responsible for anti-corruption efforts globally; trained management and Captains worldwide; implemented whistle blowing systems; rolled out country-specific anti-corruption campaigns, and conducted risk assessments, audits, and misconduct investigations. She has led and initiated public private partnerships to tackle corruption globally incl Nigeria, Egypt, Ukraine, India and Argentina. In 2015 she was awarded “Compliance Officer of the Year” by the C5 Women in Compliance Awards.

Cecilia is a member of the B20 Task Force for Integrity and Compliance and is a member of WEF’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative. She is a guest lecturer at the World Maritime University.

Anastasiia Lapatina

Journalist Kyiv Independent

Anastasiia Lapatina is a national reporter at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked in the same role at the Kyiv Post and has focused on politics and human rights, publishing stories about Crimea, Donbas, and Ukrainians in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Syria, and Gaza. She says her biggest achievement so far is having a large platform through social media and journalism to speak about Ukraine.

She is currently finishing a BA in Political Science at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Anastasiia has also amassing a large Twitter following of more than 600,000 users and written op-eds for The Guardian and The New York Times, including a piece about the refugee crisis on the Poland-Ukraine.

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.

Akere T. Muna

Founder and former President of Transparency International (TI)

AKERE T. MUNA is the founder and former President of Transparency International (TI) Cameroon. Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1978, he is a lawyer by training, currently Managing Partner of Muna, Muna & Associates one of the oldest law firms in Cameroon. He is and International Consultant in Governance and Anti-Corruption and advises some African Governments Companies and International Organizations. He presently consults for the UNDP as Principal Technical Advisor for their Anti-Corruption support in the DRC. Akere Muna is a member of the Governing Board of the Africa Governance Institute and serves since 2013 as a member of the High-Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa chaired by former South African President, Thabo Mbeki. He is Co-Chair of the African Union’s Working Group on a Common African Position on Asset Recovery (CAPAR)

In 2007-2008, he was appointed a member of the independent High-Level Audit Panel of the African Union. From 2008 to 2014, he was President of the African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC). He is a former President of the Pan African Lawyers Union (2005-2014) and former President of the Cameroon Bar Association. He is a former member of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Advisory Group for Sub-Saharan Africa (2010). In January 2010, he was elected for a 4-year term to the Panel of Eminent Persons, which oversees the African Peer Review process; he later became the Chairperson until the end of his term in 2014.

He became the first ever Sanctions Commissioner of the African Development Bank (2013-2018). He was actively involved in the TI working group that helped draft the AU Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption. He authored a guide to the convention. He was elected Vice-Chair of TI’s Board in 2005 and again in 2008 and 2011. His term ended in 2014. He then went on to serve as Chair of the Council of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC). The IACC is the world’s premier anti-corruption global forum for bringing together heads of state, civil society, the private sector and more. He was Chairperson of the Board of Directors of ECOBANK Cameroon as of February 2017. In February 2017, the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) chaired by Lord Sebastian Coe, in pursuance of the process of enhancing the governance and integrity framework of the IAAF appointed an inaugural Vetting Panel of three, Barrister Muna was named the Chairperson.

In October 2017, Akere Muna resigned from his positions within ECOBANK Cameroon, the IACC and the IAFF, after announcing his intention to run for public office in the Republic of Cameroon.

Olajobi Makinwa

Chief of Intergovernmental Relations & Africa, UN Global Compact

As Chief of Intergovernmental Relations & Africa, Olajobi Makinwa leads high-level interactions with Governments to strengthen relations and enhance understanding of the UN Global Compact. She aligns priorities of Governments and regional intergovernmental bodies with key directions of the work of the UN Global Compact. Ms. Makinwa leads the implementation of the Global Compact’s Africa Strategy 2021-2023.

During her tenure as Chief of Transparency & Anti-Corruption, Olajobi led the UN Global Compact Working Group on the 10th Principle, a multistakeholder advisory group that sets the strategic direction for the 10th Principle on transparency and anticorruption. She worked with companies to develop their anti-corruption policies and practices and successfully led the development of numerous UN Global Compact projects on transparency and anti-corruption, notably the Project on Collective Action in the fight against corruption. She is currently the Project’s Chief Technical Director where she works with Global Compact Local Networks in the design and implementation of their Collective Action against corruption projects.

Prior to joining the UN Global Compact, Ms. Makinwa was the Executive Director of Amnesty International South Africa. Previously, she served as a Legal Officer with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Kenya, and with the UNEP Regional Office for Europe in Switzerland.

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.

Margery Kraus

Founder and Executive Chairman APCO Worldwide

Margery Kraus is founder and executive chairman of APCO Worldwide, a global advisory and advocacy communications consultancy headquartered in Washington, D.C. She specializes in public affairs, communication, and business consulting for major multinationals. Ms. Kraus founded APCO in 1984 and transformed it from a company with one small Washington office to a multinational consulting firm in major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

In September 2004, Ms. Kraus led a management buyout of her firm, making APCO one of the largest privately owned consulting firms in its field in the world and the largest that is majority women owned. APCO was built almost entirely through organic growth. Throughout the years, Ms. Kraus achieved this by fusing the best local talent and experience with a global perspective and best practices, resulting in an international firm with a unique culture based on seamless teamwork and common values.

Ms. Kraus’s achievements have been recognized over the years through a number of prestigious awards, including the 2021 IWEC Foundation Award, PRWeek U.S. Power List (2022, 2021, 2020); Enterprising Women of the Year Award (2019); PRWeek Top 20 Most Influential Communicator (2018) award, recognizing leaders who have shaped the PR industry over the past two decades; PRWeek Hall of Femme (2017); PR News PR People Hall of Fame (2015); C200 Foundation Entrepreneurial Champion Award (2015); PRWeek Hall of Fame (2014); U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress Corporate Statesmanship Award (2013); Volunteers of America (Greater New York) Spirit of the Founders (2012); the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations Agency Mentorship (2012); Global Thinkers Forum Excellence in Leadership (2012); Arthur W. Page Society Hall of Fame (2011); Institute for Public Relations Alexander Hamilton Medal for lifetime contributions to professional public relations (2010); Washington Business Hall of Fame (2009); Enterprising Women Hall of Fame (2009); Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in the services category in Greater Washington (2006); Washington PR Woman of the Year (2006); and PR News Lifetime Achievement (2005).

Ms. Kraus has deep expertise in providing strategic counsel on issue-based communication, crisis management, market entry, and corporate reputation across diverse industry groups. The range of her experience is reflected in APCO’s industry practice groups. In addition, she pioneered one of the industry’s earliest practices in corporate responsibility and the development of public/private partnerships. Prior to starting APCO, Ms. Kraus assisted in the creation and development of the Close Up Foundation, a multimillion-dollar educational foundation sponsored in part by the United States Congress. Ms. Kraus continues to be involved with the foundation by serving on its board of directors.

Ms. Kraus is active on other institutional and corporate boards and committees. She is chairman of the board of the Women Presidents’ Organization; serves on the international advisory board of Tikehau Capital, the social responsibility advisory board of Univision Communications Corporate, the advisory board of Enterprising Women magazine and Fortune Global Forum. She also serves as a trustee of American University, the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, and the Institute for Public Relations. She serves as interim chair of the WAMU Board of Advisors.

She previously served as a trustee for Northwestern Mutual for more than a decade. In addition, she is a past chairman of the Public Affairs Council and the board of directors of the PR Council. She also served on the advisory board of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as the steering committee of the school’s Center for Executive Women.

Ms. Kraus has been married to her husband, Steve, for more than fifty years, is a mother of three, and has nine grandchildren. She is the author of Roots and Wings: Ten Lessons of Motherhood That Helped Me Create and Run a Company.

Bjørg Sandkjær

State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Ms Bjørg Sandkjær has been State Secretary (Deputy Minister) for International Development at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2021.

She has a broad background in international development, particularly in the fields of global health, human rights and aid effectiveness. Prior to her current position, Ms Sandkjær served as the deputy leader of the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare of the Oslo City Council. Ms Sandkjær has 20 years of experience working in the areas of global health and human rights, and has held positions at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and the Church of Norway.

Ms Sandkjær holds a Master’s degree in Demography from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an undergraduate degree from the University of Oslo.

Paula Santos Da Costa

Director of the Office of Integrity & Anti-Corruption, Africa Development Bank (AFDB)

Ms. Paula Santos Da Costa, a national of Guinea Bissau, is a seasoned lawyer with more than twenty years of experience in ethics, compliance, fiscal law, banking and money-laundering.

Paula is currently the Head of the Ethics Office at the African Development Bank where she has undertaken several actions to significantly sharpen and improve the Ethics ecosystem for the Bank.

Paula joined the African Development Bank in December 2010 as a Principal Ethics Training and Liaison Officer. She later served as Special Assistant to the Vice President, Corporate Services and Human Resources. In this capacity, she contributed to the initiation, development and review of the Bank Group’s corporate policies, rules, regulations, processes and standards.

Prior to joining the Bank, Paula worked at the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) as Lead and Coordinator of the Litigation Division from 2004 to 2010, where she helped to establish the litigation service in the Legal Affairs Directorate, developed a rating system for lawyers, as well as the legal status of the Anti-Money Laundering Control Cells of the West African Economic and Monetary Union.

Paula started her career in Portugal, serving in the Treasury Department, several commercial banks and a private law firm, before joining the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Guinea-Bissau.

Paula holds a master’s degree in Fiscal Law (1998) from the Lisbon Institute of Economics and Management (ISTEC), Portugal and a master’s degree in Private Law (1995) from Jean Moulin University in Lyon, France. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in private law (1994) from Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, France. She is a member of the Lisbon Bar Association, Portugal and a certified anti-money laundering expert, a certification issued by the Central Bank of France.

Suneeta Kaimal

President and Chief Executive Officer Natural Resource Governance Institute

Suneeta joined NRGI’s predecessor organization, the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) in 2009 as the deputy director responsible for regional and country engagements across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. Following the merger between RWI and the Natural Resource Charter in 2013, Suneeta became chief operating officer, ensuring NRGI’s strategy and approach was relevant, demand-driven, and evidence-based. Overseeing the leadership and senior management teams, she guided the translation of the strategy into innovative, impactful thematic and regional programs and supported NRGI’s institutional effectiveness and sustainability. Suneeta served as interim president and chief executive officer in 2020, surmounting the strategic and operational challenges of the global pandemic.

Suneeta is the secretary/treasurer of the board of directors of The International Center for Not-For-Profit Law, working to improve the legal environment for civil society, philanthropy, and public participation around the world. She was the first female civil society chair of the Open Government Partnership, an organization of reformers inside and outside of government from more than 75 countries and served on the steering committee for eight years. Suneeta was the first chair of the global council of Publish What You Pay, a civil society movement of more than 1,000 organizations working to improve natural resource governance. She is also a founding board member of Roots of Health, a local NGO focused on improving the health of women and girls and their communities, in the Philippines.

Suneeta holds a master’s in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a bachelor of arts from Duke University, where she was a Hart Leadership Fellow.

David Malpass

President, World Bank Group

David R. Malpass, 13th President of the World Bank Group

David R. Malpass was selected as 13th President of the World Bank Group by its Board of Executive Directors on April 5, 2019. His five-year term began on April 9.

Mr. Malpass previously served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs for the United States. Mr. Malpass represented the United States in international settings, including the G-7 and G-20 Deputy Finance Ministerial, World Bank–IMF Spring and Annual Meetings, and meetings of the Financial Stability Board, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

In 2018, Mr. Malpass advocated for the capital increase for the IBRD and IFC as part of a reform agenda featuring sustainable lending practices, more efficient use of capital, and a focus on raising living standards in poor countries. He was also instrumental in advancing the Debt Transparency Initiative, adopted by the Bank Group and the IMF, to increase public disclosure of debt and thereby reduce the frequency and severity of debt crises.

Before joining the U.S. Treasury, Mr. Malpass was an international economist and founder of a macroeconomics research firm based in New York City. He served as chief economist of Bear Stearns and conducted financial analyses of countries around the world.

Previously, Mr. Malpass served as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Developing Nations and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Economic Affairs. He focused on an array of foreign policy and development issues, including U.S. involvement in multilateral institutions; the Bank Group’s 1988 capital increase, which supported the creation of the Bank’s environment division; the Enterprise for the America’s Initiative; and Brady bonds to address the Latin American debt crisis. He also served as Senior Analyst for Taxes and Trade at the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and as Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

Mr. Malpass has served on the boards of the Council of the Americas, Economic Club of New York, National Committee on U.S.–China Relations, Manhattan Institute, and Gary Klinsky Children’s Centers, as well as various for-profit entities. He is the author of numerous articles on economic development.

Mr. Malpass earned his bachelor’s degree from Colorado College and his MBA from the University of Denver. He was a CPA and undertook advanced graduate work in international economics at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has studied Spanish, Russian, and French.

Mr. Malpass and wife Adele Malpass, a journalist, live in Washington, D.C. They have four children and share a strong family interest in development issues.

Claudia Escobar Mejía

Guatemalan lawyer and a former magistrate of the Court of Appeals

Doctor Claudia Escobar Mejía is a Guatemalan lawyer and a former magistrate of the Court of Appeals. Due to threats and intimidation, Escobar relocated to the United States in 2015. She is a distinguished visiting professor Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government in the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TRACCC) at George Mason University. She is also the Executive Director of Be Just, an organization that promotes the rule of law by strengthening the institutions of the justice sector, supports anti-corruption initiatives, and respects for human rights.

Claudia Escobar received the “Democracy Award” in 2017 for her commitment to fighting impunity and corruption. Lately, she was honored by the Harvard Women’s Law Association and Harvard Law in the exhibition “Women inspiring change” organized on the School’s 6th Annual International Women’s Day Celebration.

Claudia Escobar is among a select group of academics in the Centennial Fellows Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. In 2015-16, while a fellow at Harvard University, she became the first Central American to be awarded a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her fellowship responsibilities at both institutions included lecturing, mentoring and research. Likewise, she was selected by the National Endowment for Democracy to join the Reagan-Fascell Fellows Program (2016-2017), where she promoted the importance of judicial independence as a tool to fight corruption.

In Guatemala, Escobar served as Judge of the First Instance. Later she was designated as a magistrate in the Court of Appeals. When running for a second term in, the head of the Guatemalan Congress conditioned her election upon an exchange for a judgment that would favor the political party and the Vice President. For this reason, she resigned her position and denounced interference against judicial independence on the part of the legislative and executive powers. Consequently, the congressman received a thirteen years prison sentence for bribery and influence peddling. Escobar was elected as commissioner for the International Experts Commission against Corruption in Ecuador by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Government of Ecuador.

She regularly contributes time and efforts to various civil society organizations in the defense of human rights and the promotion of the Rule of Law. She is affiliated to Transparency International (TI), as a member of the International Council; Integrity Initiatives International (Triple III), Board of Directors; Integrity Sanctuary Fellowship, founding member, and Board of Directors. Univeristat Autónoma Barcelona, Ethics Committee of Manuel Ballbé Cátedra.

Claudia Escobar has a bachelor in Political Science from Louisiana State University. She obtained her law degree at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and her Ph.D. and master’s degree in Pluralistic Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Doctor Escobar is an active member of the Anti-Corruption Advocacy Network (ACAN) in Washington DC and the Academia Against Corruption in the Americas (Mexico). She lives in Mc.Lean, Virginia with her husband and four of her six children.

Isabel Saint Malo

Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama 2014 – 2019

Former Vice-President of the Republic of Panama and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Isabel Saint Malo, has extensive international experience with emphasis in Latin America. Expertise in government, multilateral and public affairs. Highly regarded for institution-building abilities and implementing public policy and advocacy. Following her election in 2014 as Vice-President and her appointment as Foreign Minister, she became the first woman elected to the Vice Presidency as well as the first woman appointed as Foreign Minister in the history of her country.

Ms. Saint Malo started her diplomatic career occupying different posts between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Panama and the United Nations Permanent Mission in New York (1990-1992), where she served as an Alternate Permanent Representative. She also worked for 15 years with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Panama.

From UNDP, she led the team that designed and executed the Agreements Panama 2000 where the framework for the legislation of the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) was created with the support and agreement of the government, political parties, private and labor sectors as well as civil society. The ACP was to administer the waterway once it reverted to Panamanian hands. She participated
as a facilitator of over a dozen dialogue and consensus-building processes around development issues in several countries in Latin America, acquiring strong skills in bringing together diverse views and constructing a common agenda with the participation of different sectors.

For her contributions to building national consensus over two decades, she received the Woman of the Year award (2012), from the Panamanian Business Executives Association (APEDE), and was also distinguished by the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace of the Hebrew University of Israel and the Council of the Americas with the Bravo Awards 2018.

The former Vice-President has been a member of different boards of directors including Banco BBVA and Fundación Democracia y Libertad, was a founding member of the Women Corporate Directors Association of Panama, and is a fellow of the Central American Leadership Initiative(“CALI”) and the Aspen Institute (2008). Founder of the Global Shapers hub of Panama City, an initiative of the World Economic Forum to develop the potential of young leaders, and was appointed as an expert to the Global Agenda Council on Transparency (2014) by the same organization.

In her capacity as Vice-President, she chaired the Social Cabinet and led the National Council for Development, from where the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been promoted, including the presentation at the United Nations of the country´s volunteer SDG report of progress. From these platforms, she also promoted social policies, as “Zero Poverty” around the strategic objective of eradicating poverty and social inequality and endorsed a national consensus on education and health.

Ms. Saint Malo is a champion in sponsoring issues related to transparency, the fight against corruption and gender equality. As the Latin American and Caribbean Champion for the UN Women-ILO-OECD initiative “Equal Pay International Coalition,” and the leader of the IDB-WEF Panama´s Gender Parity Taskforce, she was instrumental in promoting the implementation of policies to ensure gender equality for Panama and internationally.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs, successfully implemented the modernization and institutional strengthening of the Ministry, with the objective to encourage the professionalism of Panamanian diplomacy. Responsible for establishing and signing diplomatic relations with the People´s Republic of China and designing a 12 points bilateral agenda.

She has been a guest speaker at prestigious Universities including London School of Economics, Harvard University, Columbia University, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Georgetown University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Saint Joseph´s University and SAIS at John´s Hopkins among others.

Ms. Saint Malo has been interviewed and cited by the most prestigious television and newspapers globally, including CNN International, BBC International and its UK and Singapur´s editions, NBC, CCTV, AL Jazeera; the most well-known agencies including Reuters, AP, Agence France-Presse, Xinhua, EFE, Yonhap News Agency; as well as newspapers in Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East including Jordan Times, China Daily, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Economist, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and others.

Upon the end of her mandate as Vice President, she was invited for the Fall semester of 2019 as a Resident Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, where she led a study group on foreign policy and the global development agenda. She is currently at Harvard as an Advance Leadership Fellow for two semesters in 2022.

Currently, she works as an independent consultant as a Senior Advisor to Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, and has advised Un Women Regional Office for LAC on Innovative Finance with Gender Lens. Headed the Organization of American States (OAS) Observer Mission to the Presidential Elections of Ecuador 2021 and the Observer Mission to the Presidential Elections in Costa Rica 2022.

Member of GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion; of the Advisory Board of Women Political Leaders, of the Editorial Board of Americas Quarterly, and the Regional Board of Fundación Flor.

Holds a Degree in International Relations from Saint Joseph´s University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University. She is married to Omar Alvarado, they have 3 children and reside in Panama.

Patrick Alley

Co-Founder Global Witness

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Patrick is one of the three founders of Global Witness. Founded in 1993 Global Witness has become one of the world’s leading investigative organisations dedicated to rooting out corruption and environmental and human rights abuses around the world, with Patrick taking part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe. Taking the findings to lawmakers and into the boardrooms of multinational companies Patrick and his colleagues have challenged the assumption that you can’t change things. Global Witness now has major focus on tackling the climate crisis.

Patrick is the author of Very Bad People, published in 2022, which charts some of Global Witness’ key investigations. Alongside his two co-founders Patrick received the 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Global Witness was nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for their work exposing the murderous trade in blood diamonds.

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Matthew Caruana Galizia

Director of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation

Matthew Caruana Galizia is the director of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation. He worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), developing the technology that enabled major investigations such as ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Paradise Papers’. In 2018, Matthew left ICIJ to continue working on the case around the killing of his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassinated in 2017 following her investigations into corruption in Malta. Since then, Matthew Caruana Galizia and his family have worked tirelessly to tackle impunity and to unveil the truth about Daphne’s death.

Ghada Fathi Waly

Executive Director 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.

Achim Steiner

Administrator , United Nations Development Programm (UNDP)

Achim Steiner became UNDP Administrator on 19 June 2017. The United Nations General Assembly confirmed his appointment following his nomination by Secretary-General António Guterres. In April 2021, the General Assembly confirmed his appointment to a second four-year term beginning in June 2021.

Mr. Steiner is also the Vice-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Group, which unites 40 entities of the UN system that work to support sustainable development.

Over nearly three decades, Achim Steiner has been a global leader on sustainable development, climate resilience and international cooperation. He has worked tirelessly to champion sustainability, economic growth and equality for the vulnerable, and has been a vocal advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals.

Prior to joining UNDP, he was Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. Mr Steiner has served across the United Nations system, looking at global challenges from both a humanitarian and a development perspective. He led the United Nations Environment Programme (2006-2016), helping governments invest in clean technologies and renewable energy. He was also Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi. Achim Steiner previously held other notable positions including Director General of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams.

Achim Steiner has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States. He graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (MA) from Worcester College, Oxford University and holds an MA from the University of London/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

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.

Nicola Allocca

Risk, Compliance, Business Continuity and Quality Director, Autostrade per L'Italia

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

President of the Anticorruption Committee at Business @ OECD. Member of the B20 “Integrity & Compliance” Task Force.

International MBA oriented in communication, with focus on problem solving, organization and active listening.
Active collaboration as Faculty with Universities in Master programs and Summer Schools.

Consolidated experience in management of cross-cultural teams with diverse backgrounds, within complex and dynamic contexts.

Rhoda Weeks-Brown

General Counsel and Director of the IMF Legal Department

Rhoda Weeks-Brown is General Counsel and Director of the IMF’s Legal Department. She advises the IMF’s Executive Board, management, staff and country membership on all legal aspects of the IMF’s operations, including its lending, regulatory and advisory functions. Over her career at the IMF, she has led the Legal Department’s work on a wide range of significant policy and country matters. She has also lectured and written articles and many IMF Board papers on all aspects of the law of the IMF.

Ms. Weeks-Brown also served as Deputy Director in the IMF’s Communications Department, where she led IMF communications and outreach in Africa, Asia and Europe; played a key role in the transformation of the IMF’s communications strategy; and led IMF strategic communications on key legal and policy topics.

Ms. Weeks-Brown has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) from Howard University. Before joining the IMF, she worked in a large corporate law firm in Washington DC. She is member of the Bar in New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and a member of the Supreme Court Bar. She is also a member the Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association (MOCOMILA), and of the Consultative Group for the Sovereign Debt Forum. Ms. Weeks-Brown serves on the Boards of TalentNomics, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on developing women leaders globally, and Results for America, a non-profit organization working to improve outcomes for communities through results-driven social programs. She was named one of the top 27 Global General Counsels (2020) by the Financial Times, and one of the top 5 General Counsels in the area of Promoting Ethical Standards.

Under her tenure, the IMF Legal Department has been short-listed for two Financial Times Awards, for Innovation in Strategic and Risk Advice and Most Innovative In-House Legal Team in North America.

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.

T. Raja Kumar

FATF President 2022-2024

T. Raja Kumar began a two-year term as President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on 1 July 2022. He succeeded Dr. Marcus Pleyer.

Mr. Raja Kumar has rich leadership and operational experience, having held a wide range of senior leadership roles in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Singapore and the Singapore Police Force for over 35 years. He currently serves as the Senior Advisor (International) in the Ministry of Home Affairs, advising on international policy development, partnerships and engagement. Prior to this, he was Deputy Secretary (International) at the Ministry from January 2015 to July 2021 and was concurrently the Chief Executive of the Home Team Academy between 2014 to 2018. As Deputy Secretary (International), Mr. Raja Kumar forged stronger collaborative relationships with key counterparts in the safety and security arena, including with strategic partners such as INTERPOL and the UN.

Previously, Mr. Raja Kumar also served as Deputy Commissioner of Police (Policy), Director of the Police Intelligence Department, and Senior Deputy Director of the Commercial Affairs Department. He served as the pioneer Chief Executive of the Casino Regulatory Authority and put in place a robust regulatory framework for the new casinos in Singapore, including for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), benchmarked against top-tiered jurisdictions.

Mr. Raja Kumar is a passionate advocate for the FATF and firmly believes in FATF’s mission and ability to make a global difference. He has led Singapore’s delegation at the FATF since 2015 and is the co-lead for Singapore’s national Inter-Agency Committee on AML/CFT. He co-led Singapore’s efforts for its Mutual Evaluation in 2015-2016 and has driven Singapore’s high level of involvement at FATF, including serving as a FATF Steering Group member for the last four years.

Mr. Raja Kumar holds a LLB (Hons.) degree from the National University of Singapore, and a Masters of Philosophy (Criminology & Law) from Cambridge University. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University in 2006.

Mr. Raja Kumar was awarded Singapore’s prestigious National Public Administration Gold medal in 2021, the Public Administration Silver medal in 2007, and the Public Administration Bronze medal in 1996 for his strong leadership and contributions. He was conferred the National Order of Merit by the Government of France in 2017, carrying the rank of Chevalier (Knight). In recognition of his contributions to the casino regulatory community, he was made a Lifetime Trustee of the International Association of Gaming Regulators in 2011.

Mr. Raja Kumar is a Board Member of the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore and also serves as Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Behavioural Sciences at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Derek Mitchell

President of the National Democratic Institute

Ambassador Derek Mitchell became President of the National Democratic Institute in September 2018,bringing decades of distinguished experience in international diplomacy and foreign policy. From 2012 to 2016, Ambassador Mitchell served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma), America’s first ambassador to the country in 22 years.

Previously, Ambassador Mitchell was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (APSA) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense––including six months as Acting Assistant Secretary––where he was responsible for overseeing the Defense Department’s security policy in Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia. For his service, he received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service in August 2011.

Prior to the Obama Administration, Ambassador Mitchell was Senior Fellow and Director of the Asia Division of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). From 1997 to 2001, he served as Special Assistant for Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he was the principal author of the Department of Defense’s 1998 East Asia Strategy Report.

Ambassador Mitchell first joined NDI as Senior Program Officer for Asia and the former Soviet Union from 1993-7. He began his Washington career as a foreign policy assistant in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) from 1986-88.

Ambassador Mitchell has authored numerous books, articles, policy reports, and opinion pieces on international affairs. He received a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Virginia, and was a visiting scholar at Peking University in 2007.

Musa Mwenye

Founder and Senior partner at Messrs Mwenye & Mwitwa

Musa is currently founder and senior partner at Messrs Mwenye & Mwitwa – Advocates. He also Chairperson of the board of directors of the Zambian Anti Corruption Commission, Chairperson of the Engineering Institute of Zambia Disciplinary Committee and member of the PACT Global Board of directors.

Musa is past Attorney General of the Republic of Zambia by virtue of which he was ex officio member of the Zambian Cabinet, principal legal advisor to the Government and leader of the Zambian bar. Musa is also past Solicitor General having served as Solicitor General of the Republic of Zambia from the 29th of December, 2011 to the 26th of June, 2014 when he was ratified as Attorney General by the Zambian Parliament.

Musa obtained his LL.b degree from the University of Zambia and is a member of the Zambian inner Bar (Silk). He is also admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales. He is a Commissioner of oaths and has in the past held judicial office as a Commissioner of the Small Claims Court of the Republic of Zambia. Musa is a Notary Public in Zambia and was at one time President of the Law Association of Zambia and has at several times also chaired several committees of the Law Association of Zambia including the Disciplinary committee. He has also been Chairperson of the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (the only institution mandated to administer Bar Exams in Zambia), Chairperson of the Medical Council of Zambia Disciplinary committee and Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority of Zambia.

Musa has at various times been involved in international election observation work. In November, 2016 he was one of 16 eminent persons appointed by the Secretary General of the Common wealth to be part of the Commonwealth election observer mission to the Ghanaian elections held in December, 2016 which was lead by His Excellency President Thabo Mbeki former President of the Republic of South Africa. Musa was also one of 18 eminent persons who constituted the Commonwealth election observer mission to the Nigerian elections held in February, 2019. In October 2019 he was appointed acting Chair of the Commonwealth observer mission to the Mozambican elections and In November 2019, Musa chaired the Commonwealth observer mission to the Namibian elections.

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.

Frederik Obermaier

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist

Frederik Obermaier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling book author living in Munich (Germany). He co-founded paper trail media.

Jodie Ginsberg

President of the Committee to Protect Journalists

Jodie Ginsberg is the president of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A journalist by profession, Ginsberg joined CPJ in 2022 from Internews Europe, where she was the chief executive officer. Ginsberg began her career as a graduate trainee with Reuters news agency, working as a commodities reporter before taking up a posting as a foreign correspondent in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she focused on the region’s financial sector. She subsequently worked as Reuters’ chief correspondent in Ireland, based in Dublin, and then bureau chief for the UK and Ireland. As bureau chief, Ginsberg managed coverage of the 2008 financial crisis, UK riots and 2010 general election, as well as overseeing the merger of the Thomson and Reuters UK newsrooms. In 2014, Ginsberg was appointed chief executive of London-based freedom of expression group Index on Censorship, which she led until 2020. An internationally respected campaigner on issues of media freedom and freedom of expression, Ginsberg is a regular speaker on journalist safety and issues involving access to information. From 2020 to 2022, she was chief executive of Internews Europe, a media development non-profit, and has served on the boards of the Global Network Initiative and The Trust for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and as a Council member of IFEX, the international network for freedom of expression organizations. Ginsberg has a BA in English Literature from the University of Cambridge and a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.

Maria Pevchikh

Head of the investigation department at the Anti-Corruption Foundation

Maria Pevchikh is the head of the investigation department at the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Russian non-profit organisation founded by opposition politician Alexei Navalny to investigate and expose the cases of corruption among the Russian elites. During her eleven years of work, she authored over a hundred investigations, most famously of Vladimir Putin’s private palace on the Black Sea which has gained over 120 million views on YouTube. The investigations of the Anti-Corruption Foundation have led to freezing of assets of Russian officials and oligarchs in excess of 1 billion euros, including the seizure of Vladimir Putin’s private yacht in Italy.

Pevchikh is also the editor-in-chief and a presenter of Popular Politics Youtube channel, an independent Russian-language news channel with a monthly audience of over 10 million viewers, and the executive producer of the award-winning CNN/HBO documentary Navalny.

Disha Ravi

Fridays for Future India founder

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Ed O'Donovan

Special Advisor to Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

Ed is Special Advisor at UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Guest Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. He was Head of Protection at Front Line Defenders. In that role he oversees and coordinates the protection of HRDs at risk at a global level. Ed joined Front Line Defenders in 2009 and from then until 2016 he was Protection Coordinator for East Asia, working to support HRDs and build the organisation’s network in that region. Prior to joining Front Line Defenders, Ed worked as a political analyst at the EU Delegation in Bangkok.

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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Paul Radu

Director and co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Paul Radu (@IDashboard) is a director and co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project www.occrp.org a co-creator of the Investigative Dashboard concept id.occrp.org, of Visual investigative Scenarios visualization software vis.occrp.org and a co-founder of RISE Project www.riseproject.ro a platform for investigative reporters and hackers in Romania. He is specialized in exposing organized crime and corruption through large international journalistic cooperations. He has held a number of fellowships, including the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship in 2001, the Milena Jesenska Press Fellowship in 2002, the Rosalyn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2007, the 2008 Knight International Journalism fellowship with the International Center for Journalists as well as a 2009-2010 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship. He is the recipient of numerous awards including in 2004, the Knight International Journalism Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, in 2007, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the 2011 the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting and a 2015 European Press Prize. Paul is an Ashoka Global fellow and a board member with the Global Investigative Journalism Network gijn.org and other organizations. Paul was working the Panama Papers and the Russian, Azerbaijani and the Troika Laundromat.

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Mark Moody-Stuart

Global Compact Foundation Chairman

Mark Moody-Stuart was Chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from 1998 to 2001 and of Anglo American plc from 2002 to 2009. After a doctorate in geology in 1966 at Cambridge, he worked for Shell starting as an exploration geologist, living in Holland, Spain, Oman, Brunei, Australia, Nigeria, Turkey and Malaysia, and UK. A director of Saudi Aramco 2007- , Accenture (2001-2015) and of HSBC (2001-10). Chairman of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium. (2008-) and of the FTSE ESG Advisory Committee. Vice Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact Board and Chairman of the Global Compact Foundation 2006-. Honorary Co-Chairman of the International Tax and Investment Center 2011-, Member of the International Council for Integrated Reporting, Chairman of the of the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS 2002-2011, board member Global Reporting Initiative 2002-7 and the International Institute for Sustainable Development 2002-2011. Author of Responsible Leadership. Lessons from the front line of sustainability and ethics. Married to Judy with four children.

Ban Ki-moon

The 8th Secretary-General of the UN

Kristalina Georgieva

Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Cynthia Gabriel

Founding Director Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4)

Tom Devine

Legal Director, Government Accountability Project

Tom Devine is Government Accountability Project’s Legal Director, and has worked at the organization since 1979. Since that time, Tom has formally or informally assisted over 7,000 whistleblowers in defending themselves against retaliation and in making real differences on behalf of the public – such as shuttering accident-prone nuclear power plants, rebuffing industry ploys to deregulate government meat inspection, blocking the next generation of the bloated and porous “Star Wars” missile defense systems, instituting a national commercial milk testing program for illegal animal drugs; and sparking the withdrawal of dangerous prescription drugs such as Vioxx. He has not lost a case since 2006, and has prevailed in advocacy at numerous U.S. courts of appeals as well as the Supreme Court. He also is an adjunct professor at the DC School of Law, where he supervises a whistleblower rights clinic that has trained over 500 law students in free speech rights.

Tom has been a leader in the campaigns to pass or defend 37 national or international whistleblower laws, including nearly all in the U.S. federal enacted over the last two decades. These include: the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 for federal employees; thirteen breakthrough laws since 2002 creating the right to jury trials for corporate whistleblowers; the new European Union Whistleblower Directive creating free speech rights for all 28 member nations; as well as United Nations, Organization of American States, World Bank, and African Development Bank policies legalizing public freedom of expression for their own whistleblowers; and even national laws in nations such as Serbia. Tom has traveled to 36 countries for whistleblower rights advocacy, including numerous speaking tours for the U.S. State Department that sparked its staff informally naming him the “Ambassador of Whistleblowing.” In that capacity, he has served as a technical expert for drafting or advocacy of 14 more whistleblower laws or polices in nations ranging from Liberia and Tunisia, to Great Britain and Italy.

Tom has authored or co-authored numerous books, including 2011’s The Corporate Whistleblowers Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth, which won the 2012 International Business Book of the Year Award at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Other publications include Courage Without Martyrdom: The Whistleblower’s Survival Guide; Caught Between conscience and Career: Expose Abuse Without Exposing Your Identity; chapters in numerous books, law review articles, magazine articles and newspaper op-eds; and is a frequent expert commentator on television and radio talk shows. Tom is the recipient of the “Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award” and the “Defender of the Constitution Award” bestowed by the Fund for Constitutional Government. In 2006 he was inducted into the Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame. Since 2012 he has been recognized annually by Washingtonian magazine as one of Washington DC’s top employment lawyers. He serves on the Board of Whistleblowing International Network, the global coalition which he helped to found.

Tom is a Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate of Georgetown University where he was an All American debater and captained the team that set a still-standing national record for tournament championships. He earned his J.D. from the Antioch School of Law, and sits on the board of the Disaster Accountability Project, as well as Whistleblowers International Network WIN) which he helped found.

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The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG Australia

When he retired from the High Court of Australia on 2 February 2009, Michael Kirby was Australia’s longest serving judge. He was first appointed in 1975 as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation & Arbitration Commission. Soon after, he became inaugural Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84). Later, he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, then President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96) and, concurrently, President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-6). His appointment to the High Court of Australia followed in 1996 and he served thirteen years. In later years, he was Acting Chief Justice of Australia twice.

In addition to his judicial duties, Michael Kirby has served on three university governing bodies being elected Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney (1984-93). He also served on many national and international bodies. Amongst the latter have been service as a member of the World Health Organisation’s Global Commission on AIDS (1988-92); as President of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva (1995-8); as UN Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-96); as a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (1995-05); as a member of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Judicial Reference Group (2007- 09) and as a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights(2004- 2019).

Following his judicial retirement, Michael Kirby was elected President of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia from 2009-2010. He served as a Board Member of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (2009-14). He has been appointed Honorary Visiting Professor by twelve universities. And he participates regularly in many local and international conferences and meetings. He has been awarded a number of honorary doctorates at home and abroad. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of Australia (2009 – ) and Chair of the Board of the Criminal Law Journal (1979-).

He served 2011-12 as a member of the Eminent Persons Group on the future of the Commonwealth of Nations. He was a Commissioner of the UNDP Global Commission of HIV and the Law 2011-2012. He was appointed to the Advisory Council of Transparency International, based in Berlin in 2012. In 2013- 2014, he was appointed Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights Violations in North Korea. He a Commissioner of the UNAIDS Lancet Commission on AIDS to the Right to Health (2013-2014); the Global Fund’s Equitable Access Panel (2015-16); the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Essential Medicines (2015-16); and UNAIDS/OHCHR’s panel on overreach of criminal law (2017); and Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (2018 – ).

He was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal in 1991, the Gruber Justice Prize in 2010 and has been Patron of the Kirby Institute on Blood Borne Diseases in UNSW Sydney, Australia since 2011. In May 2017, he was invested by Japan with the insignia of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star in Tokyo, with an audience with the Emperor of Japan. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (Est. 1866). He was also named for the 2018 United Nations Honour by the United Nations Association of Australia. In 2019 he was appointed a Distinguished Fellow of Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). He was also named winner of the Global 100 Firm of the Year – Arbitration – Australia and Bali International Arbitration and Mediation Centre named him one of the 2019 BIAMC top 10 arbitrators in Asia/Pacific. In 2019 Macquarie University conferred on him the honorary title of Chancellor Emeritus “as a public recognition of [his] exceptional and distinguished service to the University, and in perpetuity”. In 2020 Trinity College Dublin presented Praeses Elit Award to him.

Angel Gurria

OECD Secretary-General

As Secretary-General of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 2006, Angel Gurría has firmly established the Organisation as a pillar of the global economic governance architecture including the G7, G20 and APEC, and a reference point in the design and implementation of better policies for better lives. He has broadened OECD’s membership with the accession of Chile, Estonia, Israel, Latvia and Slovenia, and has made the Organisation more inclusive by strengthening its links with key emerging economies.  Under his watch, the OECD is leading the effort to reform the international tax system, and to improve governance frameworks in anti-corruption and other fields. He has also heralded a new growth narrative that promotes the well-being of people, including women, gender and youth, and has scaled up the OECD contribution to the global agenda, including the Paris Agreement  on Climate Change and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Born on May 8th, 1950, in Tampico, Mexico, Mr. Gurría came to the OECD following a distinguished career in public service in his country, including positions as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance and Public Credit in the 1990s. For the first time in a generation, he steered Mexico’s economy through a change of Administration without a recurrence of the financial crises that had previously dogged such changes.

Mr. Gurría holds a B.A. degree in Economics from UNAM (Mexico) and a M.A. degree in Economics from Leeds University (United Kingdom). He has received Honorary Degrees from the Universidad de Valle de México, Rey Juan Carlos University, European University of Madrid, and the Universities of Leeds, Haifa and Bratislava.

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Barbara Trionfi

International Press Institute (IPI) 
Executive Director


Barbara Trionfi is Executive Director at the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to safeguarding and fostering media freedom and promoting quality, independent journalism.

Barbara joined IPI in 2000, as a press freedom adviser for the Asia-Pacific region, where she had previously studied and worked for over four years, carrying out research in the field of human rights and freedom of expression. Later, as press freedom manager, she oversaw IPI’s global press freedom monitoring and coordinated IPI’s global advocacy.

With an academic background in international relations and human rights, Barbara has taught courses at Webster University, Vienna in Media Ethics, Media Literacy and Cultural Diversity and the Media.

Her field of expertise covers different areas related to press freedom and freedom of expression, including self-regulatory media accountability systems, safety of journalists, and international mechanisms to protect press freedom.

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Borge Brende

President of the World Economic Forum

Børge Brende is President of the World Economic Forum. He previously served as the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister of the Environment. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Norwegian Conservative Party and as a member of the Norwegian Parliament for more than ten years. Alongside parliamentary roles, he held the roles of Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and Secretary- General of the Norwegian Red Cross.

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Mari Elka Pangestu

World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships

Mari Pangestu is the World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships. In this role, which she assumed on March 1, 2020, Ms. Pangestu provides leadership and oversees the research and data group of the World Bank (DEC), the work program of the World Bank’s Global Practice Groups, and the External and Corporate Relations function.

Ms. Pangestu joins the Bank with exceptional policy and management expertise, having served as Indonesia’s Minister of Trade from 2004 to 2011 and as Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy from 2011 to 2014.

She has had vast experience of over 30 years in academia, second track processes, international organizations and government working in areas related to international trade, investment and development in multilateral, regional and national settings.

Most recently, Ms. Pangestu was a Senior Fellow at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, as well as Professor of International Economics at the University of Indonesia, adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and a Board Member of Indonesia Bureau of Economic Research (IBER), as well as Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta.

Ms. Pangestu is highly regarded as an international expert on a range of global issues. She served as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington D.C and as advisor to the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi. Her record of board and task force service includes the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), co-chair of the expert group for the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, the panel of the WHO health initiative, the Equal Access Initiative, commissioner for the Low Carbon Development Initiative of Indonesia and executive board member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). She has also served on the board of a number of private sector companies.

Twitter: @Mari_Pangestu

Marina Walker

Executive Editor at the Pulitzer Center

Marina Walker Guevara, United States, is Executive Editor at the Pulitzer Center. Prior to that, she was ICIJ’s director of strategic initiatives and network.

She managed the two 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 has been instrumental in developing the science behind ICIJ’s 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, where she received the Perfil Freedom of Expression Prize in 2016. 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, The 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 and honors from Long Island University’s George Polk Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Overseas Press Club, Bartlett and Steele Awards, Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Award for distinguished Latin American reporting (special citation) and the inaugural Susan Talalay Award for Outstanding Journalism.

In 2018-2019, Walker Guevara was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University where she studied the use of artificial intelligence in big data 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 Reporting (CLIP).

Twitter: @MarinaWalkerG
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An Seong Ho

President, Korea Institute of Public Administration

Kim JongKap

President & CEO, Korea Electric Power Corporation

Kim Ganglip

Minister of Food and Drug Safety, Republic of Korea

Drago Kos

Chair of the OECD WG on Bribery

Jeon Hyun-Heui

Chairperson, Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, RoK

Jung Kang Ja

Representative, People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, RoK

Lee Sung-kyu

lawyer, Kim & Chang (law firm), RoK

Moon Jae-in

PRESIDENT of the REPUBLIC of KOREA

Kim Geo-Sung

Ex-chair, Transparency International – Korea

Michael J. Sandel

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Havard University

Juliana Fanjul

Filmmaker

Juliana’ Fanjul is a Mexican documentary film-maker’ living in Switzerland. “When we shot the film, the social and political climate in Mexico was very tense — to say the least — and we could feel it on a personal level. It was a known fact that Carmen was under surveillance through a malware called Pegasus, and being close to her automatically meant that we became a target, too. The crew and I couldn’t shake off a feeling of unease. We had never felt so paranoid as we did during those months spent near her. Speaking in codes and taking all kinds of security measures became the norm for us.”

Boniface Mwangi

Filmmaker

Photojournalist-turned-activist-turned-politician Boniface Mwangi has been described as Kenya’s most popular leader in the fight against government corruption and injustice.

Alexander Von Bismarck

Executive Director of Environmental Investigation Agency

Alexander von Bismarck (@ajbismarck) is Executive Director of the Environmental Investigation Agency, U.S. He has been working on governance, trade and the environment issues around the globe for two decades, including field investigations into illegal logging and associated trade in over twenty countries throughout the world, illustrating how wood illegally logged from the world’s most valuable remaining forests ends up on retail shelves in the United States and other consuming countries. Von Bismarck’s investigations contributed to the passage of the first law to ban trade illegally sourced wood, the amended U.S. Lacey Act, and some of the most high profile prosecutions under the law. Other campaigns at EIA include tracking illegal trade in wildlife and climate “super pollutants” like HFCs. His work is featured in the film “Wood: Undercover Agents of Change” being shown at this conference. The film captures the origin of a major new campaign at EIA to innovate and advocate for tangible transparency mechanisms to fight corruption and aid in effective and just natural resource governance.

Andrew Gilmour

Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation

Masatsugu Asakawa

President, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Lee Sanghak

Transparency International Korea

Antonio Guterres

The Ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations

Rueben Lifuka

Vice Chair Transparency International

Rueben Lifuka is an architect and an environmental consultant and managing partner with Riverine Zambia Limited. He is the founder and a director of the consultancy firm Dialogue Africa and chair of the National Governing Council of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism process in Zambia. He serves on the boards of several organisations including Build IT International – Zambia and the International Anti-Corruption conference. Between 2011-2013 he served on a technical committee appointed by the President of the Republic of Zambia to draft a new national constitution. He was president of TI Zambia from 2007 to 2012 and was re-elected to this position in 2017. He was elected to the TI International Board of Directors (TI Board) in 2008 and again in 2011. In 2017 he was elected Vice-Chair of the TI Board, reconfirmed in November 2020.

Paul Polman

Co-Founder and Chair IMAGINE

Paul Polman is Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE, a social venture which mobilises business leaders around tackling climate change and global inequality. Paul is the Honorary Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce, Chair of The B Team and Saïd Business School and Vice-Chair of the UN Global Compact. A leading proponent that business should be a force for good, he has been described by the Financial Times as “a standout CEO of the past decade”. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), he demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance. Paul was a member of the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel which developed the Sustainable Development Goals, and as an active SDG Advocate he continues to work with global organisations and across industry to push the 2030 development agenda.

Peter Eriksson

Minister for International Development Cooperation Swedish Foreign Ministry

Maria Teresa Ronderos

Director Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística , CLIP

María Teresa Ronderos is a Colombian journalist, director and co-founder of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP), which conducts cross-border collaborative investigations with media partners in this continent. She is also board member of Fundación Gabo, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Media Development Investment Fund.

Samuel Kimeu

Africa's Voices Foundation

Christina Lee

Head of Publications at Hostwriter.org

Michael Hershman

IACC Council Member

Soung Jea-Hyen

Ph.D in Criminal Law

Shamila Batohi

National Director of Public Prosecutions National Prosecuting Authority South Africa

Carin Jämtin

Director-General Sida

Carin Jämtin is the Director-General of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) since May 2017. Ms. Jämtin has a long political career within the Social Democratic Party at both national and local level. In 2003 Ms. Jämtin was appointed Minister of International Development Cooperation. In 2006 she served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and was appointed to the World Bank’s Commission on Growth and Development. Furthermore, she has served as the Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party and Vice Chair of the Stockholm City Council.

Mourad Wahba

Associate Administrator UNDP

Mr. Wahba has had many years of distinguished service at the United Nations and UNDP. Most recently, he served as UNDP’s Regional Director for Arab States (2017-2019) and as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Haiti (2015-2017). Prior to this, he served as UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Arab States (2013-2015); Director of UNDP Security Office (2009-2013); UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative (2006-2009) in Morocco; Director of United Nations Affairs, UNDP New York (2001-2006); and Deputy Resident Representative in Guyana (1999-2001). Mr. Wahba began his career with the United Nations in 1993, as a Senior Officer in the Office of the Secretary-General. Before joining the UN, Mr. Wahba was an Associate Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo, and a Visiting Lecturer on International Political Economy at the Institute for Diplomatic Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt (1987-1993).

Rueben Lifuka

Vice Chair, IACC Council and & Transparency International Advisory Board

Rueben Lifuka is an Architect and Environmental Management Consultant working in Zambia and the Southern African region. He is also a 2011 Draper Hills Summer Fellow with the Centre for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, USA. He is one of the founder members of Transparency International Zambia and served as its Chapter President from 2007 to 2012. He was also elected in 2008 as a Board member on the international board of Transparency International. He served two terms of office until 2014. During his tenure as TI Board member, Rueben pierced on several committees, notably, he chaired the important Membership Accreditation Committee. He was recently elected to serve on the International Anti Corruption Conference Council. Today, he continues to be actively involved in research and advocacy on climate change and corruption as well as land and corruption in Africa.

Giannina Segnini

Director, Master of Science Data Journalism, Journalism School, Columbia University

Giannna Segnini from Costa Rica was head of the investigative team at «La Nacion». Their investigations has led to prosecution of more than 50 politicians, businessmen and public servants in Costa Rica, UK, USA, France and Finland. Two former presidents in Costa Rica is convicted for corruption. Segnini has been training journalists all over Latin-America and USA in computer assisted reporting for years. She’s a well know speaker at conferences all around the world and has received several international prizes for her work.

Hazel Feigenblatt

Regional Journalism and Media Programs Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean Regional, Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Hazel Feigenblatt is a practitioner-scholar working in the fields of anti-corruption and media development, with a particular interest in corruption and disinformation among religious groups, gender, accountability frameworks, and monitoring and evaluation. She has a Ph.D. in journalism studies, a Master’s degree in Political Science, and a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs Reporting.

She currently leads IWPR’s journalism programs in Latin America. Previous positions include Research Director in Global Integrity (Washington DC), Investigative Journalist at newspaper La Nación (Costa Rica), and instructor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Other experience includes consulting and advisory roles with international organizations like the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank,Transparency International, the Open Government Partnership, and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation,among others.

Publications include book chapters with prestigious academic institutions and serving as lead editor of publications about corruption, disinformation, gender and corruption, citizen monitoring mechanisms and access to information, as well as research reports with the Center for Public Integrity (States Integrity Investigation), the World Wide Web Foundation, The Economist Intelligence Unit, and others.

Gretta Fenner

Managing Director, Basel Institute on Governance

Gretta Fenner is the Managing Director of the Basel Institute on Governance and Director of its International Centre for Asset Recovery. Under her leadership from 2005–2008 and from 2011 to the present and together with her management team, the Basel Institute has grown into an 100+ strong agile and global organisation with programmes across Southern and East Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central and Southeast Asia, field offices and embedded experts in over 10 countries, and an extensive network of partners in anti-corruption and good governance at the highest national and international levels.

She has been instrumental in shaping the Basel Institute’s reputation for evidence-based and innovative anti-corruption and public governance approaches. Many of the organisation’s government partners have made leaps forward in their efforts to deter corruption and recover stolen assets through pioneering uses of tools including unexplained wealth legislation, plea bargaining, non-conviction based confiscation, multidisciplinary asset recovery taskforces and novel information-sharing partnerships. She has also developed the Basel Institute’s role as a leading centre of expertise in Collective Action to improve private-sector integrity and address shared problems of corruption that hinder business and investment. Gretta continues to drive the Institute forward into new areas including the illegal wildlife trade and other forms of environmental crime, where this holistic and integrated approach is already demonstrating solid results.

Prior to joining the Basel Institute, Gretta worked at the OECD in Paris as the organisation’s manager for anti-corruption programmes in the Asia-Pacific region, where she played a key role in establishing the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific. In addition, while based in Australia and Oxford, UK from 2008 to 2011, Gretta advised a wide range of governments, donors, international organisations and multinational corporations on governance and anti-corruption topics, as well as organisational change, development processes and policy design.

Gretta is a political scientist by training and holds bachelor and master degrees from the Otto-Suhr-Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and the Paris Institute for Political Science (Sciences Po Paris), France. In 2010, she completed an MBA at the Curtin University Graduate School of Business, Australia.

Neha Wadekar

Independent Multimedia Journalist former fellow of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the United Nations Foundation

She reports at the intersections of climate, gender, conflict, health, human rights, emerging democracies, and politics.

Neha’s written and video work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, PBS NewsHour, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Mother Jones, CNN, and others.

She has received fellowships from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the United Nations Foundation, the Fuller Project, the Overseas Press Club, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the Groundtruth Project.

Neha is originally from Boston, MA. She attended Tufts University and received a masters in journalism from the University of California, Annenberg School.

Anna Therese Day

Award-winning reporter and filmmaker

Focused on social movements, human rights, and the intersection of technology and security. In 2021, Day was honored with the James Foley World Press Freedom Award for her conflict journalism and advocacy.

In recent years, Day’s domestic investigations into America’s radical right-wing movements received the 2021 Religion News Association Award for Excellence and the 2020 New York TV & Film Award. Previously Middle East-based, her international coverage focuses on security, youth and women’s movements, and the impacts of US foreign policy. Her reports have appeared on CNN, Al Jazeera English, VICE News, among others. From 2015-2017, Day served as a regular contributor to The New York Times Women in the World, and her print reporting has been translated into Arabic, Hebrew, and Spanish.

For her work, Day was recognized as one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in Media in 2017. She is a 2018 Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, a 2016 Truman National Security Partner, 2013 Fulbright Fellow, a 2012 United Nations Press Fellow, and was named one of Google Zeitgeist’s Great Young Minds of Our Time in 2011. The Shorty Awards for Social Media recognized her as one of the Top 10 journalists of the Year in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, she was named a national finalist for Running Start’s Emerging Young Leader Awards and selected as one of Mic.com’s #Mic50 Millennial Leaders. Day was Skype’s global brand ambassador for “The Things We Can Do” English-language campaign in 2015.

Day is the co-founder of Fovrth Studios, an independent multimedia documentary house. Day’s series, AUTHENTICALLY US, was selected by Cannes, Tribeca, and SxSW film festivals in 2018. Day’s latest immersive film, Children Do Not Play War, premiered at Tribeca Film Fest in 2019.

Day regularly speaks on international affairs, women’s issues, human rights, and press freedom for broadcast news channels, at government and international forums, and in university and educational settings. For interviews or speaking engagements, contact Day here.

In 2013, she was selected for The Progressive Women’s Voices Training by the Women’s Media Center and is currently recognized as a foreign policy expert in their SheSource interview database. In 2012, Day completed her first speaking tour, “Social Media and the Revolution: the Arab Spring and Beyond.” She was also popularly selected for widely publicized debates with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and President Barack Obama. Day is also known for her high-profile interviews with renowned politicians, activists, and celebrities, including Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman, feminist icon Eve Ensler, award-winning activist journalists Jeremy Scahill and Mona Eltahawy, and Oscar award-winning actor Forest Whitaker.

Day is a founding board member of The Frontline Freelance Register a representative body for freelance conflict journalists organized by freelance conflict journalists, supported by the Frontline Club Charitable Trust in London. Day is a former board member of the ACOS Alliance for journalist safety. Since 2012, Day has been a proud member of the International Anti-Corruption Conference’s Journalists For Transparency network of investigative reporters.

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Caroline Henshaw

Editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

Based in Sarajevo, Caroline Henshaw joined OCCRP in 2019 and is a core editor, working across the OCCRP network to edit stories and coordinate investigations and reporting. She also coordinates OCCRP’s work on how organized crime and corruption drive environmental destruction. She cut her teeth as a financial reporter for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal first in London, then in Sydney.

After freelancing in southern Africa she joined Agence France-Presse as an editor in Paris, helping to shape coverage of stories such as the Greek debt crisis and the war in Syria, and acting as deputy on the global financial newswire. After editing Asia-Pacific news from Hong Kong, she moved to Myanmar as bureau chief, where she led the agency’s coverage of the opening salvos of the Rohingya crisis. She has degrees from Cambridge and SOAS University of London and a diploma from City, London University.

Yolaan Aguemon

Social Media Lead, African Development Bank Group

Experienced broadcast journalist and digital content producer. Master of Arts (MA) degree, Columbia University – Graduate School of Journalism.